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    New Glenn reaches high-earth orbit, lifts ESCAPADE toward Mars and then the booster returns safely to the landing platform and support vessel
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    New Glenn reaches high-earth orbit, lifts ESCAPADE toward Mars and then the booster returns safely to the landing platform and support vessel

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    1. AgreeableEmploy1884 on

      Incredible landing. I think their plan was to refly this booster and launch Blue Moon MK1 in January.

    3. DukeDamage on

      Up and running now. Will be interesting to see if SpaceX defections begin. A move prior might have been unthinkable though probably not a cultural fit

      Edit: apparently an unpopular opinion 

    5. worldruler086 on

      Oh, I thought this was just a mission to test the New Glenn. I didn’t realize this was also an LV for an actual Mars Mission! Very exciting!

    7. MrBulbe on

      So can we finally remove spacex from Artemis and give HLS fully to BO now? Because we all know that starship will never work as a HLS

    8. CmdrAirdroid on

      Now if they ramp up the launch cadence and undercut SpaceX prices they could force SpaceX to finally lower their launch prices. It would be really great to have actual competition in the launch market. Neutron is coming too which will also be partially reusable.

    9. TheOnsiteEngineer on

      Landing the booster on the second launch is damn impressive. Now if they can get their launch cadence up, BO might actually become a competitor to SpaceX

    10. Decronym on

      Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

      |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[BO](/r/Space/comments/1owdkfa/stub/noq00cd “Last usage”)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
      |ETOV|Earth To Orbit Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”)|
      |[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1owdkfa/stub/nopjqy3 “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
      |[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1owdkfa/stub/nopz4hj “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
      | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
      |[LV](/r/Space/comments/1owdkfa/stub/nopgtv3 “Last usage”)|Launch Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”), see ETOV|
      |[NG](/r/Space/comments/1owdkfa/stub/nopyo5k “Last usage”)|New Glenn, two/three-stage orbital vehicle by Blue Origin|
      | |Natural Gas (as opposed to pure methane)|
      | |Northrop Grumman, aerospace manufacturer|

      |Jargon|Definition|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1owdkfa/stub/noplzb1 “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
      |[cislunar](/r/Space/comments/1owdkfa/stub/nophxxg “Last usage”)|Between the Earth and Moon; within the Moon’s orbit|

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    11. flowersonthewall72 on

      Wait, you mean we didn’t need to blow up an endless amount of boosters and call it “new space” for this to be successful?!

    13. Fett32 on

      I just got to Florida this morning, then immediately drove 3.5 hours to watch this. It was amazing! Never thought I’d get to see the Kennedy Space Center, let alone a launch.

    15. Ender_D on

      Incredible flight, awesome landing. This, along with Starship. Neutron on the horizon, and Stoke makes me really excited. We’re in for a wild time for the space flight industry in the coming years.

    16. DynamicNostalgia on

      And the United States achieves the second fully operational reusable launch system in the world. 

      And a third is on the way, with booster reuse of Starship already proven. 

      I always see on here that “China is pulling away from the US in space,” but in reality, it’s the US that’s pulling away from the rest of the world. 

      A couple Chinese startups might pull off a reusable Falcon-9 type reusable booster relatively soon… but the New Glenn is already a much larger and more capable launch system, and Starship is even larger and it’s fully reusable.

      Mass to orbit is the fundamental problem of all space access, the US’s competing reusable launch systems give it an edge that every other space program in the world wants to emulate. The narratives of Chinese space dominance on this site are just unbearable when so many factors point clearly in the opposite direction. 

    17. illinoishokie on

      Calling it now, Bezos is about to eat Musk’s lunch in the privatized space race. While Elon has been busy DOGEing and using ketamine, Bezos is being his usual sociopathic self, relentlessly playing catch-up.

    18. Marchtmdsmiling on

      Hmm. So you don’t need to publically lie and fail on live TV a bunch of times before succeeding? You can just do the work? Whoa!