October 25, 20241 yr 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
October 25, 20241 yr Author the above re-posted from the artemis threaad all 7 BE-4 engines are installed on the first new glenn first test flight possibly before the end of the year
December 23, 20241 yr Author 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?
December 31, 2024Dec 31 Author 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.
January 5Jan 5 Author pushed back 48 hours Wednesday, January 8, with a launch window of 1 a.m. to 4:45 a.m. eastern
January 8Jan 8 Author another 48-hour delay 3-hour window opens 23:59pm central thursday night +++ 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."
January 11Jan 11 Author sorry for the belated update launch window opens in 23:55 midnight texas time today
January 12Jan 12 Author another 24 hour push ocean conditions for the landing ship are the problem this window is 12 hours before the Starship 7 window https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission
January 12Jan 12 Author t - 8 hours sea states nominal launch window opens 11:59pm TONIGHT blue origin coverage at 11pm central: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-1 page has good graphics on visibility (as far away as alabama and north carolina) and flight profile
January 13Jan 13 Damn it. It was finally under 10 minutes, then it popped back to T-29:00 I hope they make it but I'm gonna have to watch a replay tomorrow.
January 13Jan 13 Author 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 +++ 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. +++ 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. +++ 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
January 14Jan 14 Author 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
January 16Jan 16 Author 9 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said: webcast in 20 mins https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-1 BO stuck on T-20mins, NSF tracking to the launch window in 24 mins
January 16Jan 16 Believe me, I want incredible success. I'd rather not have another late night case of blue balls.
January 16Jan 16 1 minute ago, elfenix said: Hello Denisse She can form ice in my purge line on the auxiliary power unit.
January 16Jan 16 It's T-11 minutes...I'm going to hang on for 11 minutes. The next hold and I have to go to sleep. Just launch it.
January 16Jan 16 Just now, 0xdeadbeef said: It's T-11 minutes...I'm going to hang on for 11 minutes. The next hold and I have to go to sleep. Just launch it. Oh Fuck me. HOLD at 11:03 Just as I posted. That's bullshit man.
January 16Jan 16 3 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said: It's T-11 minutes...I'm going to hang on for 11 minutes. The next hold and I have to go to sleep. Just launch it.
January 16Jan 16 I'm going to bed, which means they will probably actually launch tonight. You're welcome.
January 16Jan 16 Author 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
November 8Nov 8 Author new glenn 2 launch window tomorrow 9 november 145pm central https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2 eric is a horn, click through if you can https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/blue-origin-will-move-heaven-and-earth-to-help-nasa-reach-the-moon-faster-ceo-says/ Spoiler Blue Origin will ‘move heaven and Earth’ to help NASA reach the Moon faster, CEO says Eric Berger ~3 minutes Blue Origin stands ready to help NASA achieve its goals with regard to landing humans on the Moon as soon as possible, the company’s chief executive said Saturday in an interview with Ars. “We just want to help the US get to the Moon,” said Dave Limp, CEO of the space company founded by Jeff Bezos. “If NASA wants to go quicker, we would move heaven and Earth, pun intended, to try to get to the Moon sooner. And I think we have some good ideas.” Limp spoke on Saturday, about 24 hours ahead of the company’s second launch of the large New Glenn rocket. Carrying the ESCAPADE spacecraft for NASA, the mission has a launch window that opens at 2:45 pm ET (19:45 UTC) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, and runs for a little more than two hours. NASA seeks a faster return This year it has become increasingly apparent that, should NASA stick to its present plans for the Artemis III lunar landing mission, China is on course to beat the United States back to the Moon with humans. In recognition of this, about three weeks ago, NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy said the space agency was reopening the competition for a human lander. SpaceX and Blue Origin both have existing contracts for human landers, but the government has asked each providers for an option to accelerate their timeline. NASA currently has a target landing date of 2027, but that is unrealistic using the present approach of SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s large Mk. 2 lander. Ars exclusively reported in early October that Blue Origin had begun work on a faster architecture, involving multiple versions of its Mk. 1 cargo lander as well as a modified version of this vehicle tentatively called Mk 1.5. Limp said that after Duffy asked for revised proposals, Blue Origin responded almost immediately. “We’ve sent our initial summary of that over, and we have a full report of that due here shortly,” he said. “I’m not going to go into the details because I think that’s probably for NASA to talk about, not us, but we have some ideas that we think could accelerate the path to the Moon. And I hope NASA takes a close look.”
November 9Nov 9 Author hold continues, awaiting new T-0 recall on ng1 they did not land the first stage, to me that's the big kahuna for new glenn landing the first stage with methalox engines is a big deal new glenn first stage is also 4x the mass of falcon 9 so the vector (victor) is 16x
November 9Nov 9 Author terminal count entered at T-4 carnival cruise ship almost clear of the exclusion zone
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