Last Tuesday it was known that Blue Origin is working on the design of their new stainless steel tank. This project is called Jarvis and the company wants to use it to develop a completely reusable upper stage for its New Glenn rocket.
Musk “cries with laughter” with the design of Blue Origin
There has yet to be an official announcement from Blue Origin, instead a series of photographs were leaked of said tank. Users began to realize that this new creation is quite similar to SpaceX’s Starship rocket.
One of these users uploaded a screenshot to his Twitter account accompanied by the phrase: “Hi Elon, can I copy your homework?”. The striking thing was that this user did not mention the owner of SpaceX and still he responded. In fact, his answer makes it pretty clear what Musk thinks about this.
🤣🤣
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2021
Two smileys crying with laughter was the answer that Elon Musk gave to this user. Therefore, there is no doubt that the owner of SpaceX laughs that Blue Origin has used a design very similar to that of its Starship rocket.
There will be more conflicts between SpaceX and Blue Origin
So that, this is the last encounter that both companies have had, but there will be more. Both companies are already in a constant conflict trying to perform different space missions.
It is also recently that Jeff Bezos traveled into space and it is known that Elon Musk wants to do the same, although has not had the opportunity yet to do so.
In fact, recently Blue Origin sued NASA after it is, it will award SpaceX a contract for hundreds of millions of dollars to explore the Moon on a massive scale. Even Jeff Bezos got away with it and managed to paralyze the award of said contract, so we will have to be vigilant to see how this story ends.
What will be the next conflict that arises between SpaceX and Blue Origin?