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Forum:	Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic:	[Discuss] Blue Origin New Glenn orbital rocket

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by SkyMan1958: [B]I'm intrigued by the New Glenn upgrade numbers. I'm surprised. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]The vehicle carries over 70 metric tons to low Earth orbit, over 14 metric tons direct to geosynchronous orbit, and over 20 metric tons to trans-lunar injection.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> Can anyone explain to me why you can send more mass on a TLI mission than on a geosynchronous (GS) mission? It would seem to me that a GS orbit would require less energy than a TLI, as my understanding is that the more energy you put into an orbital craft the higher the altitude of the orbit. Obviously the Moon orbits the Earth at a higher altitude than GS, so in theory it should take more energy to loft a mass to the Moon than to GS, which would mean for the same amount of thrust, more mass could be lofted to GS than to the Moon. Thank you! [/B][/QUOTE]
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