PREVIEW: BLUE ORIGIN: BEZOS: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reports that Jeff Bezos's rocket engineering company Blue Origin will test its reusable hardware on Monday, January 6, for the first time in flight. More soon.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel. As I understand it, Blue Origin is necessary for competition for SpaceX. It needs to |
| 0:08.1 | succeed. Jeff Bezos has lavished a great deal of money, and the question is, why hasn't it |
| 0:13.8 | succeeded so far? We're looking for a launch of the engine, B-E-4 engine, on Monday the 6th. Bob Zimmerman comments here about we |
| 0:24.4 | want it to work. We need competition. There are other issues, however, to be faced after it |
| 0:31.0 | works. So here's Bob Zimmerman to describe what's next for Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, first rate company, no delivery yet. |
| 0:40.9 | More of this later tonight. |
| 0:42.7 | Well, yes, they do, John. |
| 0:43.8 | Let's get right to it. |
| 0:45.1 | Blue Origin has, once again, this is one of the bad parts, but maybe not so bad. |
| 0:49.2 | Blue Origin did not complete the first orbital launch of New Glenn. |
| 0:53.3 | It's New Glenn reusable rocket in 24, like they promised, many, many times. |
| 0:59.1 | They now have a launch date set for January 5th, or January 6th, actually. |
| 1:05.7 | January 6th, just a few days from now. |
| 1:08.4 | And if that happens... |
| 1:10.1 | Monday the 6th. Is that what you... The date Monday 6th? Yes, that's. And if that happens... Monday the 6th. |
| 1:11.2 | Is that what you... |
| 1:12.0 | The date Monday 6th? |
| 1:12.8 | Yes, that's right. |
| 1:13.5 | If that happens, it's very early in the morning, so it's in some places, it's actually |
| 1:18.6 | on the 5th. |
| 1:19.8 | But the point is, if this happens, then they will finally enter the market. |
| 1:25.5 | And it is a reusable rocket. |
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