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Updates Blue Origin announces the New Glenn Orbital Launch Vehicle

Viasat demo is working!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1989081099306496086
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Well, they also took a lot of time for this landing. This makes it easier to be precise.
 
Overall the design seems to be very conservative given its size. Supposedly it can do 45 tons to LEO, but only 7 tons to TLI, which seems a bit small when compared to Falcon Heavy advertised numbers - though those could have been "Elon Musked-ed"...
 
RisingFury said:
Overall the design seems to be very conservative given its size. Supposedly it can do 45 tons to LEO, but only 7 tons to TLI, which seems a bit small when compared to Falcon Heavy advertised numbers - though those could have been "Elon Musked-ed"...
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Yeah, 7 tons is even less than the performance of the Ariane 64 to LTO (8.6 t, according to the user manual). But Arianespace also calculates with 7° inclination.
 
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