Ракеты Джеффа Безоса: New Glenn (НьюГленн) и New Armstrong

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Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Meyerson: doubled size of company in last year from 400 to 800 employees; hiring 100s more. #ISPCS2016
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Meyerson: "really great" progress on BE-4 engine; plan engine tests to begin early next year. #ISPCS2016
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Meyerson: no significant damage to Fla. facilities from Hurricane Matthew. Installed 1st vertical beam at factory today. #ISPCS2016
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Meyerson: New Glenn, with its first stage with 7 BE-4 engines, will be the smallest orbital launch vehicle we'll ever build. #ISPCS2016

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Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  1 ч.1 час назад  
Jeff Bezos sends along a photo showing progress on Blue Origin's Florida factory for building New Glenn rockets. Completion by end 2017.
 

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Alicia (SpaceGal) ‏@murphypak  3 мин.3 минуты назад  
@ClayMowry @NASASpaceflight took these yesterday #BlueOrigin
 

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Eric Berger ‏@SciGuySpace  7 ч.7 часов назад  
Critical thing about New Glenn: NASA could dismiss threat of one private heavy lift rocket (Falcon Heavy). But two? That is a pattern.
 
  Eric Berger ‏@SciGuySpace  7 ч.7 часов назад  
Here's what the 750,000 sq. foot New Glenn facility will look like when its completed in 2017.
 
 
  Eric Berger ‏@SciGuySpace  7 ч.7 часов назад  
Here's a nice holiday treat for new space fans! @blueorigin has started building its New Glenn rocket factory in Florida.
 

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"пожарный пруд" - всё серьезно.

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а потом оттуда крокодилов вытаскивать

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silentpom пишет:
а потом оттуда крокодилов вытаскивать

Главное, чтоб они туда с завода работников не утаскивали...

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в южной каролине говорили такое про боинг

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08.12.2016г Умер   Джон Гершель Гленн летавший - «Меркури Френдшип-7», «Дискавери-STS-95» И давший имя ракетам Безоса "Нью Гленн"

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Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  33 мин.
Swung by the @blueorigin factory under construction just outside the KSC gates. It's taking shape, and it's big.
 

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Кстати,  у Безоса недавно  на даче дембельнувшийся Обама отдыхал

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http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/6/14827530/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-rocket-engine-be-4-new-glenn

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An exclusive look at Jeff Bezos's plan to set up Amazon-like delivery for 'future human settlement' of the moon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/02/an-exclusive-look-at-jeff-bezos-plan-to-set-up-amazon-like-delivery-for-future-human-settlement-of-the-moon/?utm_term=.5df72b028e44

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Peter B. de Selding‏ @pbdes 1 ч.1 час назад
Eutelsat is 1st commercial telecom sat for Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. Eutelsat decides which sat 12 mnths before 2021 launch #SATShow

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 Eric Berger‏Подлинная учетная запись @SciGuySpace  5 мин5 минут назад
The New Glenn rocket announcement today marks the beginning of a golden era of heavy-lift booster development. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/blue-origin-releases-details-of-its-monster-orbital-rocket/ ...
 

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/blue-origin-releases-details-of-its-monster-orbital-rocket/

Gargantuan Glenn —
Blue Origin releases details of its monster orbital rocket The privately developed rocket will also be capable of 100 reuses, Jeff Bezos says.  
 Eric Berger - 3/7/2017, 5:00 PM
 
After months of speculation, Blue Origin finally released more details about its New Glenn rocket on Tuesday. The 82-meter-tall rocket will have the capacity to lift 45 tons to low Earth orbit and an impressive 13 tons to geostationary transfer orbit. The two-stage rocket should be ready for its maiden flight by the end of 2019, company founder Jeff Bezos said.
New Glenn, named for the first US astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn, will also have a fully reusable first stage. In addition to remarks by Bezos at the Satellite 2017 conference in Washington, Blue Origin released showing the rocket's return to Earth. It will employ aerodynamic strakes for maneuvering during the return and will land on a barge. It is designed for up to 100 reuses. The rocket's return looks similar to that of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but New Glenn is a larger and considerably more powerful booster.
Were it flying today, New Glenn would in fact be the most powerful rocket on Earth. However, other large boosters are also under development that will likely fly first. SpaceX is building the Falcon Heavy, which will have the capacity to deliver 53 tons to low Earth orbit, and NASA is developing the Space Launch System with a 70-ton capacity.
Today's announcement, therefore, marks the beginning of a golden era of heavy-lift booster development. During the next few years, these three rockets will be competing on performance, price, and reliability. In addition to large satellite launches, they will also potentially enable NASA's deep-space exploration plans—including lunar exploration—and potentially missions to Mars. Both Blue Origin and SpaceX anticipate much lower operating costs than the government rocket, and both will be pursuing reusability. But as ever in the rocket business, it's one thing to show a video rendering a future launch. It's another thing to reach the launch pad, fly, and reuse.
During his talk on Tuesday, Bezos expressed confidence in the prospects for New Glenn, saying the company has learned important lessons fr om the development of its New Shepard rocket and spacecraft, which has already demonstrated low-cost reusability and could begin suborbital tourism flights as early as next year. "This is what is making it possible for us to build an orbital vehicle," he said. "The orbital vehicle is 100 percent informed by all of the lessons that we learned in the course of the New Shepard program, so it's very directly relevant."
 
Enlarge / The two- and three-stage variants of New Glenn will be larger than any rocket in existence.
Blue Origin
 
Some critics have dinged Blue Origin for its initial focus on space tourism, saying the company isn't really serious about space exploration. But such criticism is misguided, Bezos said, noting that in the past, entertainment has been a driver for important innovation. "There are historical cases wh ere entertainment turns out to be a driver of technologies that then become very practical and utilitarian for other things," he said, citing the early use of aviation for barnstorming, and GPUs originally developed for PC gaming now employed in machine learning.
Whatever one thinks of New Shepard and its brief suborbital hops, however, there can be little question that New Glenn is a serious rocket. The booster already has a customer, too—Eutelsat has contracted with Blue Origin for a geostationary satellite launch. Moreover, New Glenn is also, as Bezos repeated Tuesday, "the smallest orbital rocket Blue Origin will ever build." In the future, even larger boosters are coming, such as the previously teased New Armstrong rocket. The tech mogul has recently said that lunar exploration is the next logical step for human activity in space.
Listing image by Blue Origin

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http://news.eutelsat.com/pressreleases/eutelsat-signs-up-for-blue-origins-new-glenn-launcher-1845131

Eutelsat signs up for Blue Origin's New Glenn launcher  
Press Release   •  Mar 07, 2017 14:04 GMT    
  Photo credit: Blue Origin  

Eutelsat to fly on New Glenn from 2021
Paris, Washington D.C. 7 March 2017 – Eutelsat Communications (NYSE Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced at the Satellite 2017 Convention in Washington D.C. the conclusion of a contract with Blue Origin for a launch on the New Glenn rocket that is expected to initiate flights in 2020.
The new partnership with Blue Origin reflects Eutelsat's longstanding strategy to source launch services from multiple agencies in order to secure access to space and partner with launch agencies that combine the highest levels of performance, flexibility and competitiveness.
The agreement with Blue Origin covers the launch of a geostationary satellite in the 2021-2022 timeframe. The New Glenn launcher will be compatible with virtually all Eutelsat satellites, giving flexibility to allocate the mission 12 months ahead of launch.
Rodolphe Belmer, Eutelsat CEO, commented on the new relationship with Blue Origin: "Blue Origin has been forthcoming with Eutelsat on its strategy and convinced us they have the right mindset to compete in the launch service industry. Their solid engineering approach, and their policy to develop technologies that will form the base of a broad generation of launchers, corresponds to what we expect from our industrial partners. In including New Glenn in our manifest we are pursuing our longstanding strategy of innovation that drives down the cost of access to space and drives up performance. This can only be good news for the profitability and sustainability of our industry."
"Eutelsat is one of the world's most experienced and innovative satellite operators, and we are honoured that they chose Blue Origin and our New Glenn orbital launch vehicle," said Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin founder. "Eutelsat has launched satellites on many new vehicles and shares both our methodical approach to engineering and our passion for driving down the cost of access to space. Welcome to the launch manifest, Eutelsat, can't wait to fly together."

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 Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Bezos: started approaching customers a few months ago. Couldn't ask for better partner than Eutelsat. #SATSHOW
 
   Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Rodolphe Belmer, Eutelsat: we see our role to help stimulate competition; jumped on this opportunity. #SATSHOW
 
   Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Bezos: announcing first customer for New Glenn: Eutelsat. #SATSHOW
 
   Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Bezos: six landing legs; can land if one leg fails to deploy. #SATSHOW
 
   Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
 
Bezos: booster stage designed for up to 100 reuses. Aerodynamic strakes for maneuvering for landing downrange. #SATSHOW
 
   Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Bezos: New Glenn 2-stage vehicle designed to carry 13 tonnes to GTO, 45 tonnes to LEO. #SATSHOW
 
   Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Bezos: all of what we learned, and all processes put in place for New Shepard being applied to New Glenn orbital vehicle. #SATSHOW

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 Caleb Henry‏ @CHenry_SN  6 ч.6 часов назад
Bezos says lower cost launch will enable sats with shorter lifetimes, something industry is considering, albeit slowly.
 
   Caleb Henry‏ @CHenry_SN  6 ч.6 часов назад  
Eutelsat's Belmer: Blue's track record of innovation very good for (satellite) industry.
 
   Caleb Henry‏ @CHenry_SN  6 ч.6 часов назад  
Bezos showing New Glenn (orbital vehicle) graphic. 45 metric tons to LEO. #satshow
 
 
   Caleb Henry‏ @CHenry_SN  6 ч.6 часов назад  
Besos: vertical landing will be hardest with New Shepard because it's the smallest vehicle we will ever build.
 
 
   Caleb Henry‏ @CHenry_SN  6 ч.6 часов назад  
Bezos: Blue Origin now more than 1,000 people.