Blue Origin Landing Ship Arrives in Florida
A cargo ship that Blue Origin plans to convert to serve as a landing pad for the first stage of its New Glenn booster has arrived in Pensacola, Fla., the Pensacola News Journal reports.
The 600-foot cargo ship the Stena Freighter arrived in the Port of Pensacola on Thursday after making a transatlantic voyage from Portugal.
Blue Origin, the private rocket company started by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, will be using the ship as a landing platform for the company’s New Glenn rocket design expected to lift off in 2020 for its first test flight.
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith confirmed during the Aerospace Futures Alliance Summit on Oct. 10 that the Stena Freight would be used to land rockets, according to a report from the technology news website GeekWire.
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That reusable infrastructure at the cape is slowly coming into place for Blue Origin. It is going to be interesting seeing the new markets that BO & SX are going to open up because of affordable reusable launch vehicles. Sorry, ULA, But, you aren’t there yet.
I feel the same – I cant wait to see them properly compete. I also want ULA to die so looking forward to that too.
Better that it evolve. There are lots of good folks working there.
The ones that actually are good won’t spend very much time treading water even if the ship does go down.
I wouldn’t be surprise if many aren’t leaving now as openings emerge. It could explain the never ending delays for the Vulcan rocket.
BTW in America’s other successful space program, besides Blue Origin, SpaceX confirmed Boca Chica will be used for the BFR/BFS test flights and the infrastructure is rapidly taking shape for next year’s test flights.
https://www.teslarati.com/s…
SpaceX confirms initial BFR spaceship flight tests will occur in South Texas
“The ongoing construction of our launch pad in South Texas is proceeding well. SpaceX has now received the final major ground system tank needed to support initial test flights of the Big Falcon Spaceship.” – Sean Pitt, SpaceX
Remember BFS are being built on Silcon Valley time, not NASA time, since they are not being burden by NASA involvement.
its a big boat
No. That is a ship. A big boat was what my dad had, or better yet, calling a submarine (subs are all called boats).
as is commonly said, a ship can hold a boat, but a boat can never hold a ship.
Calling that a boat, is like calling a Cessena-150 an airliner.
well my last “boat” was Big E aka USS Enterprise CVN65
That’d make a heckuva bumper sticker.
Then you should know the difference.
Hey, I have a side question that you might be able to answer.
On smaller ACs, such as wasp/America class, why not do a double deck for take-off/landing in which the lower deck (which is also hidden from sats) is used for take-off (via EML cat) while the upper used for landings and helicopters?
I have always thought that it would be useful to have a take-off area that is hidden from sats so that they do not know when we start, but also have the ability to put these smaller carriers up closer to land and use them for either support or simply increasing the hop distance.
So I guess we need a bigger shark.
So…what will they name it?
(Anyone suggesting ‘Boaty McBoatface’ will be promptly escorted from the room.)
Not sure what they will name it, BUT
how about Dolly
https://www.therichest.com/…
Or Madonna
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or Gwyneth?
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They all have provided plenty of landings, likely successfully.
Personally, I would pick Dolly; Built, gorgeous, intelligent, and inviting.
In keeping with the naming tradition of the rockets I suggest the “Scott Carpenter” since he was from the US Navy and also served as the back pilot for John Glenn on Friendship 7.