[exomonk]

            New Glenn   Falcon 9
    Height  96m         70m
    Payload 45 tons     22.8 tons
    Fairing 7m          5m

New Glenn significantly increases the capacity to Low Earth Orbit, which is what this first phase of the space race has always been about (for Golden Dome, and to a lesser extent commercial internet constellations). All eyes on Starship now.

[wat10000]

Falcon Heavy does up to ~64 tons to LEO and has been available for a while. New Glenn isn't bringing any new capabilities to the table. It is still a very welcome alternative.

[exomonk]

64 tons is if Falcon Heavy is fully expended (nothing recovered) configuration. Even with smaller payload, the center core is generally a lost cause. Falcony Heavy is extremely difficult to launch as I learned when I worked at SpaceX. It turned out that slapping a bunch of Falcons together was not structurally reasonable design choice.

[thinkcontext]

> New Glenn isn't bringing any new capabilities to the table

Their payload fairing volume is a new capability.

[perihelions]

^ Be aware that a large number of accounts in this thread are throwaway sockpuppets which are obviously linked. It's a problem that they're pretending to be a crowd of unrelated people; it's an inauthentic attack trying (I don't know why) to manipulate HN sentiment.

[gtowey]

Well at least we have the answer to the Fermi Paradox now.

[mullingitover]

Literally Dr. Strangelove (Edward Teller). This whole thing is a decades-old Heritage Foundation scheme to beat MAD game theory so they can start and win a nuclear war.

[antonvs]

Except, they're just doing it to get their hands on those trillions of dollars of tax money. They don't really care if it's infeasible.

[beezle]

Really? They knew about Project 2025 when they started development and were 100% certain that Trump would return and green light such a project in 20205?

[esseph]

Who will think of the billionaires!

[zeronote]

The future's most inconvenient truths always get the most downvotes