Moon missions will require a more powerful “New Glenn” rocket which the company expects will cost around $2.5 billion. The development track of New Glenn parallels that of SpaceX and its Falcon Heavy rocket which is scheduled to see its first flight later this year. The space capsule with humans onboard will continue to the desired altitude for a couple of minutes, before descending back down to earth.īlue Origin and SpaceX will be competing for moon missions in the future.
The journey into space will take approximately 10 minutes after which the stage 1 booster will return back to earth. Blue Origin envisions a market for short space trips where six customers at a time will be able to experience weightlessness and take in a rare view of the earth from space. While SpaceX pushes forward with its goal to create affordable commercial space missions and build a technological bridge to Mars, Blue Origin is focused on the space tourism market. Despite not having the same proven technology as SpaceX, Blue Origin was able to secure its first two commercial customers last month when it signed Eutelast and OneWeb for future space flights.
Unlike SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, Blue Origin’s “New Shepard” reaches a much lower altitude that’s shy of achieving Geostationary Transfer Orbit. Also in attendance at the symposium was rival SpaceX which in recent weeks has been talking about plans to turnaround space missions in less than 24 hours.
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