{"id":792797,"date":"2025-01-17T09:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792797"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:53:05","slug":"blue-origin-vs-spacex-who-is-winning-the-battle-of-the-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792797","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin vs SpaceX: Who is winning the battle of the rockets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">New Glenn reached orbit (left) but Starship exploded, raining debris (right)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Blue Origin; SWNS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Compare these two scenes: on 16 January, Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket triumphantly reached orbit for the first time, while SpaceX\u2019s Starship burst into flames above the Atlantic ocean. You might think that the established space company, Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, has suffered a setback, while Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin, is in the ascendancy. The reality is more complicated, but it is true that SpaceX\u2019s dominance may be under threat.<\/p>\n<p>New Glenn\u2019s launch comes after decades in development and numerous delays and setbacks.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2464539-blue-origin-vs-spacex-who-is-winning-the-battle-of-the-rockets\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Glenn reached orbit (left) but Starship exploded, raining debris (right) Blue Origin; SWNS Compare these two scenes: on 16 January, Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket triumphantly reached orbit for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}