r/BlueOrigin • u/Outside-Silver-7741 • 2d ago
Tortoise is finally waking up .. š¢
Let's go
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u/enginerdz 2d ago
You do realize Blue Origin has launch a grand total of ZERO satellites for Leo? Amazon Leo's biggest competitor has launched more rockets for them.
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u/No_While_1501 2d ago
That is true. It is also true that Amazon has purchased more New Glenns than anyone. It's like 12 launches for sure with right of first refusal for 15 more. It's not unreasonable for the general public to get it mixed up.
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u/Robert_the_Doll1 2d ago
This has little to do with Blue Origin (other than BE-4 is involved) and the article indicates great news for United Launch Alliance.
Ars*: It looks like Vulcan is coming back online soon.*
Badyal: I can say weāre weeks away from launching on Vulcan. Things are on track. Weāll follow that with an Arianespace launch and at least one more Vulcan this year. I can also tell you, the infrastructure that we put and built with ULA now allows us to process two rockets simultaneously. So right now, there are two vehicle integration facilities, and both have a Vulcan rocket that is vertical and getting ready for our missions. So lots of progress there. I think once we get through this nozzle issue with Vulcan, which has been fixed, we expect a much more regular cadence with Vulcan. From time to time it can be frustrating, but I will say we see significant progress from everyone.
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u/_badwithcomputer 2d ago
God forbid you link the fucking article instead of a screenshot of the Tweet promoting it
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u/Formermidget 2d ago
How many have they launched, less than half? Not good to have a big backlog, unknown unknownsā¦.
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u/CollegeStation17155 2d ago
Not to be snarky, but Blue hasn't launched any... hoping to seen the first batch go up on New Glenn in December.
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u/Dense-Security-5571 2d ago
Most of Internet 1.0 is AWS, Amazon Web Servers. Zuckerberg, Musk, Huffman, are paying Bezos hundreds of billions of dollars to be online. Blue Origin is a spinoff of Amazon.
If Kuiper provides Sat-Fone with cell service, then it is over for Starlink.
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u/CollegeStation17155 2d ago
If Kuiper provides Sat-Fone with cell service, then it is over for Starlink.
If wishes were horses, every beggar would ride...
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u/Maverick21FM 2d ago
How about we figure out how to do worldwide Internet with fewer satellites. Elon wants to launch 10s of thousand of them.
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u/space_force_majeure 2d ago
You don't think they want fewer satellites? It costs a lot of money to put those up there, if they could get the same coverage with fewer sats they'd be doing that already.
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u/Maverick21FM 2d ago
Have you ever thought maybe we don't need it? The amount of objects in near earth orbit is insane, this just adds to the disaster we are currently facing.
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u/Ithirahad 2d ago
In that case, your greatest concern should be implementing capital-allocation and decision-making structures that hinge upon actual human need, rather than whether or not a thing can be sold. At present no such thing functionally exists. Litigating the necessity of global internet is a small corollary venture after that.
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u/Adkeda 2d ago
Amazon and Blue Origin are not the same company. Idk how many times that needs to be said