Dr Ken Kramer
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
I think it was a really great launch. It's a great move forward for Blue Origin. And I'm glad to hear that Musk actually congratulated Bezos. There has been quite a bit of competition, sometimes not friendly, between the two of them.
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
It's not so much a space race, but what is very important for American technology, because now we have another company besides SpaceX and ULA that will hopefully be able to reliably launch to space. This was the first one today that made the launch of the new Glenn rocket, and it'll be followed by more. But we couldn't get to number two until we had a successful number one launch.
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
And that's what we had today. You've got to have competition between the companies. And you can't just have Elon Musk and SpaceX snatching all the contracts up. So there'll be competition that'll bring the price down. And it's also good for, you know, Blue Origin for their customers. They're going to launch science missions for NASA.
Global News Podcast
Last minute hitch in Gaza ceasefire deal
They've got two Mars orbiters they're going to send up this spring. They've got spy satellites for the U.S. military. This was a certification flight for them. And then you've got the competing system for Starlink, which is their Project Kuiper from Blue Origin and Amazon. So it's very important for all those three reasons that this succeed today.