Will New Glenn Be The New King Of Heavy Lift Rockets? (Early Access)

Regarding how far downrange the landing ship is, wouldn't the takeoff weight of the booster be a factor? Heavier rocket - slower to accelerate.

Steve Ehrmann

In terms of feedback on this video: you used terms like "methalox" in this video which I don't think you've used before and some viewers may not be familiar with. It might be worth expanding those out in the text in the infographic to clarify.

Totally with you on the *screw tribalism* mindset. That’s just not fun for me. I much more enjoy being positive about all aspects of spaceflight and the companies helping us achieve that. I love SpaceX, yeah, but I’m not insulted by ULA having that massive fairing capable of lofting way more, larger payloads into geostationary orbits like some people are. I love ULA just the same. I’m a big fan of Rocket Lab, because they’re an awesome company with a very capable small sat rocket, which is helping us expand further into space as a species. And Blue Origin’s New Glenn will very likely change the game on a fundamental level, for however long it’s the top dog of Blue Origin and the greater space industry. All of these companies are helping me in some way, of seeing humanity unite to become a worldwide space faring civilization, and that’s something I’m Forever grateful for. And I’m also grateful for Tim Dodd of “the Everyday Astronaut EVERYTHING” ;) for making such awesome content for everybody to enjoy. You help us all get even more excited about space, Tim, and that’s a noble, and worthy pursuit. Love ya man.

Zachary Fluke

Loved the graphics and greatly appreciate the content, TD & crew!

Sean Flynn- Yes

Doesnt the falcon heavy core burn a little less than the side boosters for some of the flight, atleast at the start

The middle stage doesn’t burn at the same rate as the outside stages making the burn last a little longer

It’s basically the same boosters, so it should be roughly the same burn time.

AJ Peck

Those are expendable.

Everyday Astronaut

Good call! This I will correct! Thanks for pointing it out!

Everyday Astronaut

When you talked about the engine burn time you only mention falcon 9 burn time but not falcon heavy burn time.

Great video Tim. I always learn something new watching your videos. Thanks.

Great job. Graphics and presentation are very good. Very inspiring! Now you have me looking forward to the coming years even more!! If you got more technical, it may have become a bit distracting.

Another interesting and concise report on current events in the latest space systems. I am mostly interested in the manned systems, so next year should be interesting. Can you let us know if you will be out in Florida for a launch? I would like to see the first manned flights go up next year.

Good incentive for SpaceX to bring super heavy online around the same time new glenn is.

I really do like these infographic type of videos. Good stuff from another Dodd (my birthname before adoption).

18:09. Is this the correct use of "Ironically"? Sorry for such a minor quibble. Awesome vid! Great info, as always.

Big Car

When talking about capability, it is worth mentioning the numbers that SpaceX gives: <a href="https://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy</a> 63.8 tonnes to LEO and 26.7 tonnes to GTO.

When you are talking about fairings, you skip over the Delta IV Heavy. It is in the image, but you go from the Falcon Heavy to the Vulcan and Omega.

Well done. While not technically an error, you don't talk much about the difficulties of going from a sub-orbital to an orbital vehicle. Not to mention the fact that New Glenn is NN times larger than New Shepard. Even if New Shepard was an orbital vehicle, it would still be a big step to put so much larger of a rocket into orbit. Blue Origin is taking on a lot. It is going to be impressive.