https://www.instagram.com/p/BWxp6MjgTrP/Quotejeffbezos Manufacturing facility for the heavy-lift New Glenn launch vehicle is coming along nicely. #BlueOrigin #ReusableRockets #LaunchLandRepeat #GradatimFerociter
jeffbezos Manufacturing facility for the heavy-lift New Glenn launch vehicle is coming along nicely. #BlueOrigin #ReusableRockets #LaunchLandRepeat #GradatimFerociter
Brendan Byrne @SpaceBrendan. @SenBillNelson says @blueorigin rocket manufacturing facility on target for Dec 20 opening.5:18 PM - 9 Aug 2017
I spy with my @blueorigin eye ...
Peter B. de Selding @pbdes 6m6 minutes agoClay Mowry of @blueorigin on hurricane prep at Cape Canaveral rocket plant, nearing completion: 'We put a lot of sandbags around it.' All OK
Stephen C. Smith @WordsmithFL 8m8 minutes agoThe @blueorigin construction site didn't have any obvious significant damage.
For the curious: @BlueOrigin's KSC factory after #HurricaneIrma. Looks OK. Can see inside the massive hangar if coming from the north.
The name is Origin. Blue Origin. The name is now on the @blueorigin factory at @NASAKennedy.
https://www.spaceintelreport.com/blue-origin-looking-satellite-customer-1st-new-glenn-flight-nice-pricing/Article says that Blue have started to build NG structures in Florida, so the factory is at least partially operational now.
Why? Atlas V and Delta IV did. Presumably that customer is going to get a healthy discount.
Quote from: Welsh Dragon on 10/16/2017 03:25 pmWhy? Atlas V and Delta IV did. Presumably that customer is going to get a healthy discount. The customers for the first flight of Ariane V, Delta III, Delta IVH, PSLV, Falcon I, Conestoga, N-1, Europa, Athena 1, Antares 130, SPARK, SS-520-4, Electron, FB-1, CZ-2A, CZ-3, CZ-2E/PKM, CZ-1D, CZ-3B, KT-1, KZ-1T, etc. were not so lucky. Blue Origin should accept some hubris and accept the fact that their first launch will have a high probability of failure and thus should not fly a customers payload.
They haven't shown any evidence of being recklesssly hasty yet.