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Bezos: Blue Origin will move heaven and earth to reach the Moon first
“If asked, we will step up, and we will move heaven and earth to get to the moon first.”
Bezos: The US needs two competing SpaceX-scale launch companies
“SpaceX doesn't have to lose for Blue to succeed. What the U.S. Needs is it needs two SpaceX's. It needs two launch companies competing vigorously against each other to try to give us the most capabilities as a country, commercially, civilly, from a defense per…”
Coogan: SpaceX moved faster than Blue Origin by prioritizing modular components
“One of the reasons the Blue Origin moved a little bit slower than SpaceX is that they leaned a little bit harder on the exquisite system going really big, and Elon had this idea of, like, let's try and make a whole bunch of small things that we bundle together…”
Blue Origin is better than all non-US rocket providers, says Coogan
“Even our second best rocket proprietor is better than everyone else in around the globe.”
Coogan: Blue Origin Pivots Pad Strategy to Return New Glenn This Year
“To return to flight this year, we're not rebuilding the same pad. We're going straight to a horizontal vertical hybrid con ops. We are, we had already been developing for our nine X four new Glenn launch vehicle using existing infrastructure, skipping a new tr…”
Coogan: Blue Origin's New Glenn exploded at LC-36 during static fire
“Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just blew up at LC, landing LC-thirty-six while attempting to static fire ahead of NG-four.”
Coogan: Blue Origin launching TerraWave constellation in Q4 2027
“Bezos-backed Blue Origin is launching a satellite network for enterprise data center and government customers, TerraWave. The company aims to begin deploying the first of 5400 and Eight satellites in the fourth quarter of 2027, so little over, a little under t…”
Coogan: Blue Origin is the second company ever to land a rocket booster
“It's only the second company in history to land a rocket booster after SpaceX.”
Langtry: Oversized rockets bottleneck casting suppliers and stretch iteration to nine months
“If your rocket is too big, all of a sudden, there's only, like, three suppliers in the whole country where you can get castings made, and now you're at a nine-month, every iteration takes nine months, right? And it's just, it's too slow.”
Coogan: New Glenn has one successful flight in three attempts
“The explosion caused extreme structural damage to its only functional launch pad, while Blue Origin has successfully reached base a number of times with other vehicles. New Glenn has had just one successful flight out of three attempted tries.”