Blue Origin thread.

[CatastrophicFailure]

10 minutes ago, tater said:

So much for not competing with their engine customer, ULA.

“Competing” 

[tater]

 

[magnemoe]

1 hour ago, tater said:

So much for not competing with their engine customer, ULA.

I say it was pretty obvious New Glen would compete with Vulcan Centaur as its an good overlap in estimated capabilities. 
Still its no law saying you can not do this. ULA can complain that the engines was delayed who was an serious problem for them. 

[Minmus Taster]

1 hour ago, tater said:

 

Another X stream? REALLY? You'd think Bezos wouldn't want to play into Musk's hands but I guess this is where we are now.

[Ultimate Steve]

1 minute ago, Minmus Taster said:

Another X stream? REALLY? You'd think Bezos wouldn't want to play into Musk's hands but I guess this is where we are now.

 

They are not X exclusive.

[Minmus Taster]

47 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

 

They are not X exclusive.

Ah, I haven't watched a Blue Origin launch in years so I wouldn't know 

[cubinator]

51 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

They are not X exclusive.

Thank goodness.

I'll be watching the replay though.

[darthgently]

1 hour ago, cubinator said:

Thank goodness.

I'll be watching the replay though.

I figure because it is the first NG launch, I’m going to try to wake up and watch it live.  But if it starts going into holds and such not sure if I won’t end up back asleep and catch the replay

[darthgently]

What is best venue to watch NG stream?

The less chit chat, verbal and visual, the better (sorry NASASpaceflight)

Edited 13 hours ago by darthgently

[Minmus Taster]

It's almost 12:20, if they scrub before even starting the stream I'll pull an all nighter out of hollow spite.

[tater]

I have the BO stream on, muted

I am uninterested in patter.

The stream on their site is apparently at a higher bitrate:

https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-1

 

[DAL59]

Is launch in 11 minutes? Odd choice to not have a countdown onscreen.

[Ultimate Steve]

[Minmus Taster]

Another delay, yeah I'm out of energy for the night. I'll check in tomorrow, godspeed New Glenn in advance!

[tater]

 

[tater]

 

 

And poof, back to T-30 and counting

 

[CBase]

And again count down delayed to T-32

[CatastrophicFailure]

38 minutes ago, tater said:

 

 

And poof, back to T-30 and counting

 

[Narrator] that confidence was misplaced. 
 

 

…anyone else still up?

[Ultimate Steve]

1 minute ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

 

…anyone else still up?

A shame. My sleep schedule was starting to recover.

Another delay

[magnemoe]

3 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

[Narrator] that confidence was misplaced. 

…anyone else still up?

Morning here in Europe, and delayed again past 8:00 GMT. 
In last hour of their window now so an chance for scrub. 

[darthgently]

Scrub

[magnemoe]

Scrubbed

[darthgently]

It might have been an icy vent.  No one knows.  Here is a dog bone to chew on 

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/an-icy-vent-line-may-have-caused-blue-origin-to-scrub-debut-launch-of-new-glenn/

[Minmus Taster]

2 minutes ago, darthgently said:

It might have been an icy vent.  No one knows.  Here is a dog bone to chew on 

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/an-icy-vent-line-may-have-caused-blue-origin-to-scrub-debut-launch-of-new-glenn/

Seems I made the right call last night : P, is it going to require a permenant fix or is it a typical day-long delay?

[tater]

The coverage was annoying, I kept muting it. From what I have read this morning and what I saw on X last night they did not discuss what any of the issues actually were. Boo.