00:00When it comes to redundancy, the BE-4 was also lagging behind. With the current thrust,
00:06not a single engine is allowed to fail during launch, otherwise the rocket will fall back to
00:11the ground. However, later in the flight, things look different again. Blue Origin certainly seems
00:16to believe in the reliability of their engines, rightly so, as has been shown so far. Two sets of
00:22two BE-4 engines on the first two Vulcan flights and then another seven on the first New Glenn flight,
00:30all used successfully. That's an incredible achievement. Or to put it another way,
00:35the Raptor is the crazy hypercar dragster, while the BE-4 is the elegant luxury tour bus.
00:41But now things are getting exciting. Why is the Raptor cheaper and what does that mean economically?
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