With New Glenn in Its Pocket, Can Blue Origin Compete With SpaceX and Starship?

Once a company dabbling only in "space tourism," Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin turned into an honest-to-goodness space company last week. In the early morning hours of Jan. 16, at 2:03 a.m. ET, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket ship lit up the skies over Cape Canaveral, successfully reaching space on its first try, and delivering a prototype Blue Ring space tug into orbit.The mission wasn't 100% successful. After delivering its cargo, Blue Origin attempted to land the New Glenn booster on a barge at sea, a la SpaceX and its Falcon 9 reusable rockets. New Glenn missed its target, though, and plunged into the sea, which was something of an anticlimax.Still, it took SpaceX five tries to get its own sea landings right. Blue Origin, too, will get this figured out eventually. And when it does, SpaceX will face its first real competition in space: another company with another reusable rocket, charging almost the same price per launch that SpaceX charges -- but delivering twice as much cargo per launch.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool