{"id":125592,"date":"2021-07-28T04:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/blue-origin-has-a-secret-project-named-jarvis-to-compete-with-spacex"},"modified":"2021-07-28T04:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:22:39","slug":"blue-origin-has-a-secret-project-named-jarvis-to-compete-with-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/blue-origin-has-a-secret-project-named-jarvis-to-compete-with-spacex","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin has a secret project named \u201cJarvis\u201d to compete with SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-origin-has-a-secret-project-named-jarvis-to-compete-with-spacex.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How true?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>However, after subsequent reporting, I discovered a kernel of truth to the rumors of stainless steel and Blue Origin rockets. Three sources have confirmed to Ars that Blue Origin has started working on a project to develop a fully reusable upper stage for New Glenn, which may potentially use stainless steel propellant tanks.<\/p>\n<p>The primary goal of this change is to bring down the overall launch cost of the New Glenn rocket. The vehicle\u2019s large upper stage, with a 7-meter diameter and two BE-3U engines, is costly, and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos is looking for ways to make the overall rocket more economical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the difference between taking a profit and a loss on New Glenn launches,\u201d said one industry source familiar with the reusable upper-stage plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How true? However, after subsequent reporting, I discovered a kernel of truth to the rumors of stainless steel and Blue Origin rockets. Three sources have confirmed to Ars that Blue Origin has started working on a project to develop a fully reusable upper stage for New Glenn, which may potentially use stainless steel propellant tanks. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}