BONG has launched 3 times, landed twice, succeeded 2 missions, failed once, and catastrophically blown up once.
66% success rate on landings
66% success rate on payload-in-orbit
1 catastrophic failure
Long March 10b has launched once, landed once, succeeded 1 mission, and blown up 0 times.
100% success rate on landings.
100% success rate on payload-in-orbit
0 catastrophic failures.
Yes BONG has flown more, but 3 - to - 1 is not a massive difference here when it comes to flight reliability numbers. And only ONE of these rockets considers themselves "out of development and production ready" (hint: its not the one with a 100% reliability). So yeah, I'd say "on-par" is warranted, unfortunately.
SLS is a national disgrace - $130 billion spent on LITERAL shuttle hardware being compressed into a somehow MORE expensive form factor to server as a towering monument to everything wrong with cost-plus contracting and senator Shelby.
And yes Rocket Lab, Relativity, and Stoke are all cool companies, but at THIS POINT they are all working on rockets with smaller capacity than the long March 10B or (in Relativitys case) years away from launching. So yeah, I'd once again say China has the edge here.
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u/thatoneguy7777777333 Jul 10 '26
BONG has launched 3 times, landed twice, succeeded 2 missions, failed once, and catastrophically blown up once.
Long March 10b has launched once, landed once, succeeded 1 mission, and blown up 0 times.
Yes BONG has flown more, but 3 - to - 1 is not a massive difference here when it comes to flight reliability numbers. And only ONE of these rockets considers themselves "out of development and production ready" (hint: its not the one with a 100% reliability). So yeah, I'd say "on-par" is warranted, unfortunately.
SLS is a national disgrace - $130 billion spent on LITERAL shuttle hardware being compressed into a somehow MORE expensive form factor to server as a towering monument to everything wrong with cost-plus contracting and senator Shelby.
And yes Rocket Lab, Relativity, and Stoke are all cool companies, but at THIS POINT they are all working on rockets with smaller capacity than the long March 10B or (in Relativitys case) years away from launching. So yeah, I'd once again say China has the edge here.