PREVIEW: Excerpt from thrilling news from colleague Bob Zimmerman that Blue Origien's New Glenn reusable rocket booster is ready for testing. After years of delay, at last, competition for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy. And as Bob Zimmerman reminds over the ye
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know your thumb scrolls three marathons a year? That's over 78 miles of |
| 0:05.9 | selfies, cat videos and lights. Yeah. |
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Batcheter. What follows is an excerpt from a conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman. |
| 0:35.0 | Good news, surprising news. Blue Origin, the company founded many years ago by Jeff Bezos, a private commercial rocket company to take us to orbit, the |
| 0:45.4 | Moon and Mars, has finally produced the New Glen rocket engine. New Glen is ready to match Falcon Heavy for lift to low-Earth orbit and beyond, and also |
| 0:57.7 | competition is good. |
| 0:59.7 | Bob explains, New Glen, Welcome. Elon Musk competition and Moore's coming. |
| 1:07.0 | Yes, yes, we might finally be getting close to the first launch of the New Glen |
| 1:12.1 | rocket, orbital rocket from Blue Origin. |
| 1:16.4 | After years of delays, years of delays, Blue Origin this week announced that it and showed |
| 1:21.2 | picture of this, it has finally joined the first and |
| 1:24.8 | second stages of its orbital New Glen rocket in preparation for the first launch |
| 1:29.3 | later this year in August they say the stages are not vertical, they are horizontal inside the assembly building, but they both exist and they both been put together. |
| 1:40.0 | So this rocket, which was originally supposed in 2020 looks like it might finally launch in |
| 1:46.6 | 2024 and what's significant about this of course is that it's a very powerful rocket |
| 1:52.1 | it would be comparable to the Falcon Heavy and so therefore it would provide some real competition to SpaceX once it launches and that's a good thing. |
| 2:00.0 | More of this later tonight. Thank you. |
| 2:03.0 | With everything else on your plate, grocery shopping can be a bit of a faff. |
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