Photo source: Starship Gazer
Wet dress rehearsal likely in the next few days. Hopefully launch soon after?
Hmm? New Glenn and Vulcan compete with Falcon, not Starship, and the Raptors looked great on IFT-2.
New Glenn is pretty well in between Falcon 9 and Starship. Depending on launch costs, I could see a market for all three LVs.
New Glenn is slated as the first stage for the Blue Moon lander. As Starship/HLS is using Superheavy to do the same thing. So they’re sort-of-comparable, especially now that Blue Moon is the planned lander for Artemis V.
the Raptors looked great on IFT-2.
Fair point. They probably did.
I was thinking in terms of payloads to different orbits, but you’re right that the Blue Moon HLS architecture is now a lot closer to the Starship one.