• llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM
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    This was the first time any company besides SpaceX has propulsively landed an orbital-class rocket booster, coming nearly 10 years after SpaceX recovered its first Falcon 9 booster intact in December 2015.

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      1 month ago

      Up next they can try to reuse it!

      SpaceX got gold and silver, but congrats to Blue on bronze. It’s also cool that there might be a handful of other companies trying to land soon, between Neutron, Terran-R, Nova, Zhuque-3…

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        I haven’t heard of any Blue Origin Mars ambitions, but this is a necessary step for their moon plans. Their next New Glenn launch might be a cargo lander to the Moon.