Elon Musk's Big Slap To Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin EXPENSIVE Rocket Manufacturing!

Elon Musk's Big Slap To Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin EXPENSIVE Rocket Manufacturing!
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00:00: Intro
00:35: Inside Blue Origin factory and Jeff Bezos’s revelations
05:59: New Glenn’s payload progress
07:05: Falcon 9’s new milestones
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Elon Musk's Big Slap To Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin EXPENSIVE Rocket Manufacturing!
The once-mysterious operations inside Blue Origin's factory have recently been made public, accompanied by new revelations from Jeff Bezos. This disclosure has prompted a response from Elon Musk.
How has Elon Musk reacted, and what does this reveal about the advantages of SpaceX’s vehicles over Blue Origin’s New Glenn?
Join us as we explore these developments in today’s episode of Great SpaceX.
The activities and systems within the Blue Origin factory have long been shrouded in mystery within the aerospace industry. What exactly goes on behind those doors? How is their vehicle development progressing? Until recently, these details were closely guarded secrets.
Elon Musk's Big Slap To Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin EXPENSIVE Rocket Manufacturing!
However, a recent interview with Tim Dodd and his team on the Everyday Astronaut channel has provided valuable insights into Blue Origin’s operations. We extend our gratitude to Tim Dodd and his team for this informative interview, and we encourage everyone to follow their X page and subscribe to their YouTube channel to support their continued efforts in bringing us more updates.
The one-hour interview offered a detailed tour of the Blue Origin factory, showcasing various components of the New Glenn rocket. Viewers saw the aft and forward sections of the booster, the LNG and LOX tank sections, the second stage, and the fairing. Notably, the aft and forward sections of the booster have been recently tested and announced by Blue Origin on X.
One particularly intriguing detail was Jeff Bezos's introduction of CNC milling machines and shaping machines. These machines are used to remove material from aluminum and lithium alloy plates, with Bezos noting that up to 90% of the material is removed using this method.
Elon Musk's Big Slap To Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin EXPENSIVE Rocket Manufacturing!
An X account named Alex recently made an intriguing comparison: "Blue Origin's New Glenn is a very expensive rocket to manufacture compared to SpaceX's Starship. For instance, the CNC milling used to 'remove 90%' of the material from thick aluminum-lithium alloy plates is extremely time-consuming, costly, and inefficient compared to using cold-rolled sheet metal in rolls."
Elon Musk responded to this tweet, stating: "It is how most of the space industry makes rocket tanks. Works, but is expensive and production is slow."
Musk's comments are supported by SpaceX's impressive production speed. Currently, SpaceX can produce one Raptor engine per day and completes rocket stacking in just a few weeks. In contrast, companies like Blue Origin, ULA, and NASA often face production timelines extending over several years. Interviews and previous tests reveal that the forward and aft sections of the New Glenn booster still appear quite rough, and the BE-4 engines have yet to make an appearance.

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[stephensfarms]

Thanks awesome launch, 🚀, Go SpaceX ‼️‼️👍👍

[SteveBueche]

I’m 65 and don’t see Blue hitting its goal until I have Hospice asking me if I want one last meal.

[rguy]

You guy really get hit with the BOT's...

[markswanson]

BO is not a competitor. Let us know if they ever make it to orbit.

[dennyoconnor]

Bezos is successful in selling China made products to Americans. Good on him. He has never grabbed a wrench and torqued a bolt to see if there is room to torque it properly. I doubt he has ever designed a metal alloy to meet his particular need. And he certainly does not sleep in a cot on the factory floor to solve problems.
Musk engineered much of the initial series of rockets as he trained his engineers to think his way. He has been known to sleep on the factory floor for days or weeks, getting dirty and skinned knuckles right along with his mechanics, until the problem is solved.
And that is the difference between them.

[carpenter]

I think Amazon is an amazing online retail establishment.

[andrewramage]

Even with the necessary FAA inquiry about the catching test, I believe Starship test 5 will launch first - New Glenn isn't lifting until October at the soonest.

[richardford]

Mom, can we get some SpaceX? No, we have SpaceX at home in Kent, WA.

[Columbus]

The aluminum is going to be the problem, after enough temperature transition cycles it'll probably suffer from stress failures which are ok for single use disposable rockets.

[MarkHernandezPH]

i think starship will fly two times more before that new glen will fly . just a guess haha

[garylester]

I noticed something in the video images; Blue Origin is starting to work with linear gores on some of its sections. This is good compareded to ring sections, will create a stronger hull, with more ablity to add shapes into it by tapering gores or cutting edges on a radius.

Nice to see BO working on that learning curve.

[otpyrcralphpierre]

New Glenn will be Old Glenn before it ever launches.

[OriginalWillowbark]

Much improved sound quality and great content as usual. Thank you :)

[redpillcommando]

Elon will be selling Cybertrucks on Mars by the time New Glenn gets a payload to orbit.
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[alexanderSydneyOz]

I would think Starship launches first as a/ it is ready to launch when they choose to, and b/ New Glenn is a long list of major steps away from it being simply possible to launch.
Unfortunately, it sounds like quite a stretch for New Glenn to actually be ready to launch Escapade by the cutoff date.

[geniusa]

Funny thing is: The milling method could be fast, if the construction and production of CNC mills would be customized and streamlined. There should be 200 milling heads working sychronised, as the uniformal shape of the parts urges it. And of course liquid cooled operation to speed up the milling at least 10 fold. So milling could be made in no time per piece.The fact, that such machinery couldn't be spottet working, piling up hundreds of ready prepared sheets to be welded together tells me everything about the scale and flexibility of this company. They are slowly making a prototype.

[bill]

I marvel at the mechanical complexity of the landing legs on the Bezos design….it’s very NASA-ish. Where SpaceX designed and implemented a 4 leg system with excellent utility, conservation and reliability, the Bezos team opted for 6 legs with multiple joints and an “impressively” complicated design. I can only assume that Blue Origin was “hesitant” to copy the simplicity of SpaceX. As Sean Connery said in The Untouchables…thus endeth the lesson☺️

[SkeenCharles]

Originally very optimistic about his plans. Then since he started blocking SpaceX - not just keep to his lane.... Now I despise anything "space" he is into and wish his space project fails.

[ericklou]

The approach to build rockets is so different. Therefore, we can tell why SpaceX progresses at a way much faster pace than Blue Origin. I don’t see New Glenn being lunch this year.

[mitchellmorrow]

Starship Flight 6 will launch before New Glenn. This billionaire space race is fun though