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Speaker Slide Presentation: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)

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Published on Oct 17, 2017

Ariane Cornell, Head of Astronaut Strategy & Sales and Head of North American New Glenn Sales, Blue Origin

Reusability and more importantly, operational reusability, is designed into each of our systems and subsystems to ensure longevity, efficiencies, and robustness. Operational reusability is key to improving access to space.





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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #1 on: 10/19/2017 11:10 am »
Since SpaceX is now talking about Point-to-Point travel on Earth, what's the possibility of New Shepard being used for Point-to-Point delivery, like say by Amazon?

Suppose you had to get some item delivered to the other end of the Earth very quickly, in a couple of hours - could New Shepard do this as suborbital vehicle? Or would this require a much bigger rocket like New Glenn?

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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #2 on: 10/19/2017 12:49 pm »
New Shepard doesn't have enough delta-V to be worth doing any of that.
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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #3 on: 10/19/2017 02:14 pm »
Since SpaceX is now talking about Point-to-Point travel on Earth,

There's a possibility of Blue Origin talking about it, as well.

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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #4 on: 10/19/2017 02:36 pm »
Much bigger. NS can barely deliver a useful payload 100 km straight up, nevermind 100 km up and halfway around the world. New Glenn would probably be a decent basis for such a vehicle

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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #5 on: 10/19/2017 05:22 pm »
Much bigger. NS can barely deliver a useful payload 100 km straight up, nevermind 100 km up and halfway around the world. New Glenn would probably be a decent basis for such a vehicle

To be useful for point to point to point travel, such a vehicle would need close to SSTO levels of delta-v. (Either by itself, or as a staged vehicle)

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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #6 on: 11/04/2017 08:07 pm »
Here’s the video:


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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #7 on: 11/04/2017 09:28 pm »
Sigh. They've been carefully building a management structure and a procedures manual, and they'll be doing that for at least another three years before finally getting to orbit.



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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #8 on: 11/04/2017 11:56 pm »
Here’s the video:


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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #9 on: 11/05/2017 12:24 am »
Yeah, that's pretty much BS. Falcon 9 v1.1 was basically a full reboot of Falcon 9 to enable reuse. Grasshopper was "slapping some legs on" to see if it could land. Falcon 9 v1.1 was definitely not.
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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #10 on: 11/05/2017 12:26 am »
The argument they're making is that New Shepard is a training program for their teams that will be doing the orbital reuse.
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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #11 on: 11/05/2017 03:33 am »
The argument they're making is that New Shepard is a training program for their teams that will be doing the orbital reuse.

A bit like saying that building a go-cart is good training for a Formula One team, none of the hard problems are covered by the training.

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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #12 on: 11/05/2017 03:46 am »
The problem is that Bezos has too much money. No sense of urgency. No parlay it all and make it work.
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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #13 on: 11/05/2017 04:24 am »
The problem is that Bezos has too much money. No sense of urgency. No parlay it all and make it work.

An interesting point, and one that I think is very valid.

For Bezos, the motto he has for Blue Origin is "Gradatim Ferociter", Latin for "Step by Step, Ferociously". But so far at least the pace of their progress has not matched nor exceeded what SpaceX has been doing.

Musk announces goals that are obviously challenging, but even though they rarely meet the dates, the rapid iteration of their hardware and abilities is astonishing compared to what others have done.

In organizations it's good to have a sense of urgency. Blue Origin obviously has some, since they are building a new engine for ULA, but otherwise so far their funding level has not seemed to result in the commensurate progress you'd think we'd see.

Still, Blue Origin is dedicated to building reusable rockets, and that's not an easy thing to do, so I'm not criticizing, I'm more cheering them on from the sidelines in the hopes they go faster!
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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #14 on: 11/05/2017 05:43 am »
The argument they're making is that New Shepard is a training program for their teams that will be doing the orbital reuse.

A bit like saying that building a go-cart is good training for a Formula One team, none of the hard problems are covered by the training.

Isn't that muddling the scaling vehicle technology and scaling operations?

I'll admit I know little about F1, but I'd have thought that an F1 pit crew and logistics are just higher performing versions of what you'd find in other motorsports?

In what ways isn't operating NS a good dress rehearsal for operating NG?

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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #15 on: 11/05/2017 11:43 am »
Here’s the video:


Fighting words: "This is not a rocket where we decided to slap some legs on and see if we can land it."

This is not a rocket -- enough said.
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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #16 on: 11/05/2017 12:20 pm »
The argument they're making is that New Shepard is a training program for their teams that will be doing the orbital reuse.

A bit like saying that building a go-cart is good training for a Formula One team, none of the hard problems are covered by the training.

Isn't that muddling the scaling vehicle technology and scaling operations?

I'll admit I know little about F1, but I'd have thought that an F1 pit crew and logistics are just higher performing versions of what you'd find in other motorsports?

In what ways isn't operating NS a good dress rehearsal for operating NG?

My whole point was about building, not operating. I've not much idea what goes into building a go-cart, but it will be very small in comparison with a Formula One car. The top teams spend about $500 M  per year, much of it on design and development, which mean their cars have cost more to develop than Falcon 9, Merlin and reuse combined (over the same period). The point is about margins, scale and complexity, going from NS to NG is a huge leap.

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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #17 on: 11/05/2017 12:37 pm »
Its smarmy comments like these from Blue and Bezos that make me "dislike" them a little. They are unwarranted and unnecessary.
They have a lot to learn and a long way to go. Building an engine is one thing, launching and returning it is another leap.

If Blue want to score points then build and launch this thing and less talk.

Here’s the video:


Fighting words: "This is not a rocket where we decided to slap some legs on and see if we can land it."

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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #18 on: 11/05/2017 01:14 pm »
The argument they're making is that New Shepard is a training program for their teams that will be doing the orbital reuse.

A bit like saying that building a go-cart is good training for a Formula One team, none of the hard problems are covered by the training.

Isn't that muddling the scaling vehicle technology and scaling operations?

I'll admit I know little about F1, but I'd have thought that an F1 pit crew and logistics are just higher performing versions of what you'd find in other motorsports?

In what ways isn't operating NS a good dress rehearsal for operating NG?

My whole point was about building, not operating. I've not much idea what goes into building a go-cart, but it will be very small in comparison with a Formula One car. The top teams spend about $500 M  per year, much of it on design and development, which mean their cars have cost more to develop than Falcon 9, Merlin and reuse combined (over the same period). The point is about margins, scale and complexity, going from NS to NG is a huge leap.

We've created a bit of cross talk there then as you'd quoted a point about operations, not building. 

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Re: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability (no audio)
« Reply #19 on: 11/05/2017 01:30 pm »
Its smarmy comments like these from Blue and Bezos that make me "dislike" them a little. They are unwarranted and unnecessary.
They have a lot to learn and a long way to go. Building an engine is one thing, launching and returning it is another leap.

If Blue want to score points then build and launch this thing and less talk.

Very cringey video with a lot of underhand comments. If any of the stories about Bezos and his management teams at Amazon are true, I would expect the same culture at BO and this video is not suprising at all.

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