Sorry, but I believe that the boss in question has accumulated $50 Billion
by first inventing the on-line department store and then the cloud...is
_that_ the boss who's deciding what to do at Blue?
Just sayin,
Bill
On Sunday, January 24, 2016, Matt Maier <blueback09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's also a good way to build what the boss wants rather than what the
market wants.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:40 AM, John Schilling <
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On 1/23/2016 8:24 PM, Craig Remillard wrote:
I think Elon and/or Gwynne have said publicly that F9 1.1 was designedThat may or may not be true, but it was also undeniably designed from the
from the start for reuse
start as a low-cost expendable launch vehicle. Also developed and tested
and built and operated as a low-cost expendable launch vehicle - and those
are at least as important as the underlying design.
A vehicle that is designed to do two completely different things, is
unlikely to be very good at either of them and will likely lose out in the
market to a vehicle that does one thing very well. And RLVs are pretty
near the opposite corner of the trade space from BDBs. Insofar as the
Falcon is a pretty good low-cost ELV, it is not unreasonable to suspect
that it will be at best a mediocre RLV, with extensive post-flight
servicing requirements and a limited operational life. And a payload
capacity too large for near-term, high-flight-rate markets.
Blue Origin has the advantage, if the goal is the long-term development
of a low-cost space transportation system, of not having to be immediately
profitable, not having to be perceived as "cool", and not even having to
tell people what they are doing. Just figure out what needs to be done and
when, and spend the boss's money to get it done. Those same things are
disadvantages if the goal is to convince amateur space enthusiasts that
you're the coolest man on the planet - but that doesn't seem to be Jeff
Bezos's goal.
John Schilling
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