Blue Origin thread.

[purpleivan]

She's away

[darthgently]

Finally!

[AckSed]

She rides!

[Brotoro]

So slow. So blue.

[tater]

Crappy onboard cameras...

And they are doing an entry burn

[Ultimate Steve]

Not looking good on the booster side of things - Telemetry frozen. I think it should have landed by now.

[tater]

Booster probably took a swim, not streaming is... weak.

[AckSed]

Literally skipped booster touchdown to say NG S2 in orbit.

It is likely now a very fancy reef.

Edit: Still, to reach orbit on your first try with a heavy-lift rocket is damn good.

Edited 6 hours ago by AckSed

[tater]

 

[AckSed]

That's a point: relight of a second stage vastly expands the orbits you can reach; fingers crossed.

[darthgently]

How come they get to claim orbit with an atmospheric perigee but SpaceX doesn’t, lol.  It’s all good, congrats to Blue.

 Horrible vid coverage post launch, but that ground footage of the launch was nice.  Those engines and plume were stunning

[Ultimate Steve]

8 minutes ago, darthgently said:

How come they get to claim orbit with an atmospheric perigee but SpaceX doesn’t, lol.  It’s all good, congrats to Blue.

Do they have an atmospheric perigee?

[darthgently]

2 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

Do they have an atmospheric perigee?

Pretty sure. They certainly declared orbit long before apogee and no mention of anything like a circulation or pe raising second burn.  And mostly, their trajectory graphic geometry if mentally extrapolated just didn’t seem have a raised pe at all.  But they certainly had the orbital energy as Starship has had so it’s all good

[tater]

7 minutes ago, darthgently said:

Pretty sure. They certainly declared orbit long before apogee and no mention of anything like a circulation or pe raising second burn.  And mostly, their trajectory graphic geometry if mentally extrapolated just didn’t seem have a raised pe at all.  But they certainly had the orbital energy as Starship has had so it’s all good

I posted their tweet where they said a second burn was gonna happen

 

Their livestream is gone? No update on the second burn? Odd.

So SES-2 should be soon.

[darthgently]

17 minutes ago, tater said:

I posted their tweet where they said a second burn was gonna happen

 

Their livestream is gone? No update on the second burn? Odd.

So SES-2 should be soon.

I heard that, but they hadn’t done that burn yet and SpaceX got booed quite a bit for not being in “real” orbit.  
Given how much grief SpaceX got for not relighting starship vacuum engines for earlier flights it is strange they’d cut the stream before doing so.

(I’m all out of likes so everyone realize I haven’t seen a post tonight I wouldn’t have if I could have)

Edited 5 hours ago by darthgently

[darthgently]

I thought it looked almost slo-mo; wasn’t just me I guess

 

[GuessingEveryDay]

Ah, finally back inside. I went outside to try and spot it but there were too many clouds and it started raining as I was walking back to my apartment T~T

Horrifying as it is 40° F where I am in Florida.

Edited 4 hours ago by GuessingEveryDay
gah, editing on a phone is tricky enough.

[Gargamel]

3 hours ago, darthgently said:

I thought it looked almost slo-mo; wasn’t just me I guess

 

I thought it looked awful slow on launch.   The “you will not go to space today” thought did cross my mind.    
 

But I’ll just work under the assumption that they were keeping the engines throttles down to simulate a heavy launch with a low twr and to keep the stress off the engines?   Maybe wanted to stress test the gimbals? 

[Minmus Taster]

So booster is dead, not too surprised, but reaching orbit caught me off guard! Congrats to Blue Origin and better luck on the next landing attempt.