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Jeff Bezos' secretive rocket company just revealed its plans to towerover SpaceX
"The largest of the two new rockets, called the "New Glenn 3-stage," is an
enormous 23 feet in diameter (about half the length of a school bus), 313 feet tall (close to the height of the Apollo moon rockets), and will spew out 3.85 million pounds of thrust — about half as powerful as NASA's Saturn V launcher. Unlike the Saturn V, however, Blue Origin plans to build on its rocket-recycling experience and reuse the giant first-stage booster of each launcher — saving untold cash over multiple launches, since rocket boosters are normally trashed in the ocean." "Named in honor of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn is 23 feet in diameter and lifts off with 3.85 million pounds of thrust from seven BE-4 engines. Burning liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen, these are the same BE-4 engines that will power United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket." See: http://www.techinsider.io/blue-origi...rockets-2016-9 |
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Rob wrote:
Size in feet and weight in pounds? Is it designed in the 19th century? http://www.space.com/34034-blue-orig...es-people.html Includes both sets of units. I'm guessing the actual measurements are SI and the feet and pounds are just for the US readers. rick jones -- No need to believe in either side, or any side. There is no cause. There's only yourself. The belief is in your own precision. - Joubert these opinions are mine, all mine; HPE might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hpe.com but NOT BOTH... |
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Rob wrote:
wrote: "The largest of the two new rockets, called the "New Glenn 3-stage," is an enormous 23 feet in diameter (about half the length of a school bus), 313 feet tall (close to the height of the Apollo moon rockets), and will spew out 3.85 million pounds of thrust — about half as powerful as NASA's Saturn V launcher. Size in feet and weight in pounds? Is it designed in the 19th century? It's designed someplace that's actually capable of doing it. Real aeronautical engineers work in feet, pounds, and Rankine. -- "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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William Mook wrote:
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 10:14:45 PM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote: In article , says... Rob wrote: wrote: "The largest of the two new rockets, called the "New Glenn 3-stage," is an enormous 23 feet in diameter (about half the length of a school bus), 313 feet tall (close to the height of the Apollo moon rockets), and will spew out 3.85 million pounds of thrust ? about half as powerful as NASA's Saturn V launcher. Size in feet and weight in pounds? Is it designed in the 19th century? It's designed someplace that's actually capable of doing it. Real aeronautical engineers work in feet, pounds, and Rankine. LOL. I'll take working in SI units over imperial units any day. Jeff -- All opinions posted by me on Usenet News are mine, and mine alone. These posts do not reflect the opinions of my family, friends, employer, or any organization that I am a member of. SI Rules! Then you should avoid airplanes entirely. Fuel is measured in pounds, altitude is measured in feet, and distance is measured in nautical miles. The only place that did it differently was the old Soviet Bloc. -- "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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On 12 Sep 2016 17:16:53 GMT, Rob wrote:
wrote: "The largest of the two new rockets, called the "New Glenn 3-stage," is an enormous 23 feet in diameter (about half the length of a school bus), 313 feet tall (close to the height of the Apollo moon rockets), and will spew out 3.85 million pounds of thrust — about half as powerful as NASA's Saturn V launcher. Size in feet and weight in pounds? Is it designed in the 19th century? It is designed in the 21st, in a nation where SpaceX and Blue Origin are about to make every other space launch provider in the world very, very obsolete. The paradigm shift accelerates. Now with at least *two* Super Heavy (50+ tons to LEO) commercial launch vehicles planned for entry into service after 2020, the comsat industry is going to start working on much, much bigger satellites. And Ariane 6/Angara/Vulcan/GSLV will be left behind. Brian |
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:37:57 -0700, Fred J. McCall
wrote: wrote: "The largest of the two new rockets, called the "New Glenn 3-stage," is an enormous 23 feet in diameter (about half the length of a school bus), 313 feet tall (close to the height of the Apollo moon rockets), and will spew out 3.85 million pounds of thrust — about half as powerful as NASA's Saturn V launcher. And about 70% as powerful as Falcon Heavy, which will be available before it is. Yes, but maybe by not all that much time. I think FH just took another year's hit due to the Amos-6 disaster. And SpaceX has a lot on their plate with Commercial Crew and a big backlog of Falcon 9FT payloads still waiting their turn to fly. I can easily see FH being backburnered to 2018-19. Frankly, given Musk's hints about BFR in 2021 or so and Falcon 9FT getting ever more powerful, I wouldn't be shocked if he reaches the conclusion that FH is a dead end and abandons it. We'll see how long it takes them to successfully land one after they actually get them built. Flight 1 almost certainly will be a short Stage 1-only hop over to LZ-1 or wherever their landing site is, with progressively longer flights out to the barge and eventually "out and back", then moving on to flights with Stage 2. Really, how else can he test the thing? It is being built at KSC and launched at CCAFS and is too big to overland to Van Horn. So no Grasshopper equivalent operations seem possible. Brian |
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