I keep forgetting about them. It looks like they’ll be a player in suborbital soon, just not for human spaceflight. I expect I’ll see Russ and others at the suborbital research conference in Broomfield in December.
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Perhaps the most significant point here is that there are now so many credible players in the suborbital market that it’s actually possible to forget about one of them!
Has anybody cracked 100 km except Blue?
No, I don’t think so, in terms of reusables, and potential human spaceflight.
Yes, JP Aerospace and Scaled have both been above 100km.
But Scaled did so in pursuit of a prize, not as a potential commercial entity. I’m not familiar with JP Aerospace. Long story short, I disagree with AndrewZ’s statement that there are “so many credible” suborbital launch providers. Blue’s the only one with demonstrated capability to 100 km.
JP Aerospace is the pleasantly mad two-stage-blimp to orbit people, I believe.
They had some DARPA money for high-altitude blimp tests at one point IIRC.
They may or may not be pleasantly mad, but they’ve sent stuff above 100km over 100 times.