Quote from: Robotbeat on 12/10/2013 10:16 pmQuote from: Jason1701 on 12/10/2013 05:33 pmQuote from: TrevorMonty on 12/10/2013 05:25 pmA they building a suborbital or orbital LV and capsule?Suborbital LV and capsule, orbital capsule, orbital upper stage.Orbital first stage, too, which will be reusable (first stage won't actually go to orbit). (upper stage will go to orbit but will be expendable)That's in their long-term roadmap, but they haven't started on it yet, right? It sounded like they hadn't even decided what fuel it would use.
Quote from: Jason1701 on 12/10/2013 05:33 pmQuote from: TrevorMonty on 12/10/2013 05:25 pmA they building a suborbital or orbital LV and capsule?Suborbital LV and capsule, orbital capsule, orbital upper stage.Orbital first stage, too, which will be reusable (first stage won't actually go to orbit). (upper stage will go to orbit but will be expendable)
Quote from: TrevorMonty on 12/10/2013 05:25 pmA they building a suborbital or orbital LV and capsule?Suborbital LV and capsule, orbital capsule, orbital upper stage.
A they building a suborbital or orbital LV and capsule?
Quote from: Jason1701 on 12/10/2013 11:40 pmQuote from: Robotbeat on 12/10/2013 10:16 pmQuote from: Jason1701 on 12/10/2013 05:33 pmQuote from: TrevorMonty on 12/10/2013 05:25 pmA they building a suborbital or orbital LV and capsule?Suborbital LV and capsule, orbital capsule, orbital upper stage.Orbital first stage, too, which will be reusable (first stage won't actually go to orbit). (upper stage will go to orbit but will be expendable)That's in their long-term roadmap, but they haven't started on it yet, right? It sounded like they hadn't even decided what fuel it would use.They seem pretty committed to hydrogen as fuel.
Still to be determined is the powerplant for the reusable first stage of the orbital vehicle. Meyerson says it could be a cluster of BE-3s, or something entirely different. Performance drove the decision to use hydrogen fuel in the BE-3, he says, but the company's engineers have not ruled out a different approach on the orbital first stage.
They seem pretty committed to hydrogen as fuel.
Performance drove the decision to use hydrogen fuel in the BE-3, he says, but the company's engineers have not ruled out a different approach on the orbital first stage.“We selected the BE-3 as our first orbital launch vehicle engine because it provides us with options to go with an all-hydrogen architecture if we choose to,” he says. “We have ideas. Some things are in development for other engines that we're developing, but we're not ready to discuss those today. Those would provide other options and other architectures.”
Do we know enough about New Shepard to know whether it could get to orbit on a FH?
LH2 is horrible for first stages.
Quote from: QuantumG on 12/11/2013 01:09 amLH2 is horrible for first stages.Yet they are going to use it for a suborbital vehicle. Hmm.
My guess is that BO will start flying customers not much after VG...
Where's that number coming from?