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On 1/11/2024 at 4:23 PM, Hagbard Celine said:

all of the moon stuff has been pushed back out of 24 but whatever

last week's really cool news was the first ULA Vulcan launch on the first try in the first window

the blue flame of methalox is really fucking cool

the chinese beat spacex past the karman line with a methalox 4 months before the BFR 2 attempt

but the Bezos Blue Origin BE-4 engines have been way way behind and for have them work this well on the first try is just totally unexpected

the BE-4 engines are going power New Glenn and for them to work like this is so fucking cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn

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bumping this

new glenn likely went through a wet dress rehearsal yesterday, the stack was seen venting on and off but consistently all day

with 9 days left it is conceivable that blue origin may still try for it's first launch in '24

a wet dress rehearsal is the final step before a hotfire where they will gas it up again and then fire all 7 engines for a second or 2

@RamjetFDO what are you hearing on your grapevine?

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New Glenn 1

next sunday 5th @ midnight ct, monday 6th 1am et

Following a successful 24-second static fire of a full integrated stack for the first time on Dec. 27, Blue Origin is set to debut its New Glenn heavy-lift launcher on Monday, Jan. 6, at 01:00 EST (06:00 UTC) from Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at the CCSFS in Florida. New Glenn has been in design and development for well over a decade. It is named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit 62 years ago in February 1962 on the Friendship 7 mission.

In addition to flying on its maiden launch, the GS1-SN001 first stage booster, playfully named So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance, will attempt to land on the company’s recovery vessel Jacklyn, which will be stationed downrange in the Atlantic. This will mark the company’s first propulsive landing of an orbital class booster and the first recovery attempt on Jacklyn.

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another 48-hour delay

3-hour window opens 23:59pm central thursday night

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If all goes according to plan, New Glenn will lift off for the first time on Friday (Jan. 10) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, during a three-hour window that opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT).

"This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it," Blue Origin's Jarrett Jones, SVP, New Glenn, said in a Monday evening (Jan. 6) statement that announced the target launch date. "But no amount of ground testing or mission simulations are a replacement for flying this rocket. It’s time to fly. No matter what happens, we’ll learn, refine and apply that knowledge to our next launch."

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everyone gets unlimited mulligans in rocketry

that said BO needs to set their launch windows in daylight until they have 3 or 4 launches under their belt

one would think they would prefer daylight for maximum visibility of the stack in the event of an anomaly

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https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission

News | Jan 13, 2025
New Glenn NG-1 Mission Updates

We’re standing down on today’s launch attempt to troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue that will take us beyond our launch window. We’re reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt.

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After a string of chronological changes to the target liftoff time, Blue Origin crews scrubbed Monday's early morning maiden launch attempt of the 321-foot New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

"We’re standing down on today’s launch attempt to troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue that will take us beyond our launch window. We’re reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt," Blue Origin officials announced in a 3:09 a.m. EST tweet.

No further details were released. Now, space fans — ranging from hardy spectators who packed Jetty Park to New Glenn webcast viewers around the world — await a new target launch time and date from the private space company.

Blue Origin officials released few details during the initial New Glenn launch try. After announcing that propellant loading was proceeding at 8 p.m. Sunday, a subsequent string of Monday morning tweets notified the public of liftoff target times of 1:31, 1:52, 2:07, 2:27, 2:48 and 3:15 a.m. before the scrub was announced.

Among the key hopes of the Blue Origin team is to land the booster on this first attempt. Per a Blue Origin NG-1 mission timeline, the New Glenn first-stage booster should land atop the drone ship Jacklyn hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 9 minutes, 28 seconds after liftoff.

"We want to be clear about our objectives. This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it. But no amount of ground testing or mission simulations is a replacement for flying this rocket. Our key objective today is to reach orbit safely. Anything beyond that is icing on the cake," a Blue Origin tweet said.

"We know landing the booster on our first try offshore in the Atlantic is ambitious — but we’re going for it. No matter what happens, we’ll learn, refine, and apply that knowledge to our next launch," the tweet said.

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in addition to the vehicle issue(s) whatever they are, the streamcast was odd....   the BO site video was fed to Nasa Spaceflight, however the countdown clock was out of synch by as much as 30 minutes....   and yet the graphics in the NSF stream were exactly the same as the BO "source" video....  BO was adding time to the clock in the NSF feed but not in the feed on the BO site....  very strange, and definitely not ready for primetime

 

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there was talk of a launch attempt this morning (12:01am) but they moved back to tomorrow Wednesday night 11:59pm, 3 hour window

scrub was due to ice forming in a purge line on an auxiliary power unit that powers some of our hydraulic systems

update link remains: https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission

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couple of items:

1am et launch windows were chosen to minimize effect on commercial airspace

with no kuiper network deployed the visuals from the vehicle and the landing attempt are non-existent

rumors for the failed landing range from liquid cavitation due to negative acceleration to the grid fins failing to bad/poor navigation code and/or hardware

supposedly the booster missed the boat but by how much BO hasn't said nor have they said why

nevertheless the big win was 7 BE-4 engines running nominally all the way to orbit

congratulations to jeff and BO - they are officially steely-eyed missile-men

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