SLS is getting some serious competition and the FAA seem to be just a little quicker with the paperwork stack!
Bezos Space Flight
Bezos Space Flight
'New Glenn' may well make its first flight on Jan 6th having done a 24 sec static fire test, and now with FAA launch approval. With Starship on Jan 19th?? it is going to be a cracking start to the New Year!
SLS is getting some serious competition and the FAA seem to be just a little quicker with the paperwork stack!
SLS is getting some serious competition and the FAA seem to be just a little quicker with the paperwork stack!
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Blue Origin is expected to launch its 1st New Glenn rocket next week, but when?
The first launch of New Glenn could occur between Jan. 6 and Jan. 12, according to the FAA.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration ... enn-rocket
Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is on the cusp of launching into the big booster market with the debut of its New Glenn rocket next week, but exactly when the test flight will lift off is unclear.
After years of development — Jeff Bezos first announced the new rocket in 2016 — Blue Origin is expected to launch its first New Glenn booster as early as Monday, Jan. 6, from a pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. That's based on an FAA alert to pilots that states the opening of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch window. Liftoff would be at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT), according to that notice.
But Blue Origin has not publicly announced the specific launch date and time, only that is nearing the first launch of New Glenn after a succesful first stage hot-fire test on Dec. 27 at its pad, Space Launch Complex 36, in Cape Canaveral. The mission will be ambitious, testing a brand-new launch vehicle and attempting to land its first stage at sea.
"Well, all we have left to do is mate our encapsulated payload … and then LAUNCH!" Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp wrote on the social media site X.
"Next Stop launch," Bezos added.
According to the FAA, Blue Origin could launch New Glenn's first flight on Jan. 6 between 1 a.m. EST and 4:45 a.m. EST (0600-0945 GMT), a nearly 4-hour launch window, with backup opportunities daily through Jan. 12.
Blue Origin has named its first New Glenn booster "So You're Telling Me There’s a Chance" (according to Limp) and has already sent its landing drone ship, named Jacklyn after Bezos' mother, out to sea for a planned landing attempt in the Atlantic Ocean. Spaceflight photographer John Kraus shared images of the ship's departure on X.
New Glenn is a heavy-lift vehicle that, like SpaceX's Falcon and Starship rockets, is designed to be reusable, with its first stage returning to Earth for an ocean platform landing. Each New Glenn booster should be capable of up to 25 flights, Blue Origin has said.
The rocket sports a nearly 23-foot (7 meters) payload fairing that includes more than twice the volume of smaller, more commonly used 15-foot (5 m) fairings. The rocket is designed to carry payload of up to 13 metric tons to geostationary orbit and 45 metric tons to low Earth orbit.
"With twice the volume of smaller, five-meter class payload fairings, customers have more flexibility to package their payload in new ways," the company states in an overview.
For its first New Glenn flight, Blue Origin will not launch a payload at all. Instead, the mission, called NG-1, is carrying the Blue Ring Pathfinder, a 45,000-pound (20,411 kilograms) payload simulator version of the company's multi-use Blue Ring spacecraft to carry customer payloads.
— New Glenn: Blue Origin's Reusable Rocket
"The demonstrator includes a communications array, power systems, and a flight computer affixed to a secondary payload adapter ring. The pathfinder will validate Blue Ring’s communications capabilities from orbit to ground," Blue Origin wrote in a payload overview. "The mission will also test its in-space telemetry, tracking and command hardware, and ground-based radiometric tracking that will be used on the future Blue Ring production space vehicle."
From launch to landing and mission end, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket debut should last about six hours, the company has said. If successful, the mission could count towards one of Blue Origin's certification flights of New Glenn for the U.S. Space Force and National Security Space Launch program.
Blue Origin currently has New Glenn launch agreements in place with NASA (to launch the agency's ESCAPADE Mars probes), Amazon (to fly the company's Kuiper internet satellites), AST SpaceMobile (for space-to-phone communications service) and other commercial and government customers.
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The first launch of New Glenn could occur between Jan. 6 and Jan. 12, according to the FAA.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration ... enn-rocket
Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is on the cusp of launching into the big booster market with the debut of its New Glenn rocket next week, but exactly when the test flight will lift off is unclear.
After years of development — Jeff Bezos first announced the new rocket in 2016 — Blue Origin is expected to launch its first New Glenn booster as early as Monday, Jan. 6, from a pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. That's based on an FAA alert to pilots that states the opening of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch window. Liftoff would be at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT), according to that notice.
But Blue Origin has not publicly announced the specific launch date and time, only that is nearing the first launch of New Glenn after a succesful first stage hot-fire test on Dec. 27 at its pad, Space Launch Complex 36, in Cape Canaveral. The mission will be ambitious, testing a brand-new launch vehicle and attempting to land its first stage at sea.
"Well, all we have left to do is mate our encapsulated payload … and then LAUNCH!" Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp wrote on the social media site X.
"Next Stop launch," Bezos added.
According to the FAA, Blue Origin could launch New Glenn's first flight on Jan. 6 between 1 a.m. EST and 4:45 a.m. EST (0600-0945 GMT), a nearly 4-hour launch window, with backup opportunities daily through Jan. 12.
Blue Origin has named its first New Glenn booster "So You're Telling Me There’s a Chance" (according to Limp) and has already sent its landing drone ship, named Jacklyn after Bezos' mother, out to sea for a planned landing attempt in the Atlantic Ocean. Spaceflight photographer John Kraus shared images of the ship's departure on X.
New Glenn is a heavy-lift vehicle that, like SpaceX's Falcon and Starship rockets, is designed to be reusable, with its first stage returning to Earth for an ocean platform landing. Each New Glenn booster should be capable of up to 25 flights, Blue Origin has said.
The rocket sports a nearly 23-foot (7 meters) payload fairing that includes more than twice the volume of smaller, more commonly used 15-foot (5 m) fairings. The rocket is designed to carry payload of up to 13 metric tons to geostationary orbit and 45 metric tons to low Earth orbit.
"With twice the volume of smaller, five-meter class payload fairings, customers have more flexibility to package their payload in new ways," the company states in an overview.
For its first New Glenn flight, Blue Origin will not launch a payload at all. Instead, the mission, called NG-1, is carrying the Blue Ring Pathfinder, a 45,000-pound (20,411 kilograms) payload simulator version of the company's multi-use Blue Ring spacecraft to carry customer payloads.
— New Glenn: Blue Origin's Reusable Rocket
"The demonstrator includes a communications array, power systems, and a flight computer affixed to a secondary payload adapter ring. The pathfinder will validate Blue Ring’s communications capabilities from orbit to ground," Blue Origin wrote in a payload overview. "The mission will also test its in-space telemetry, tracking and command hardware, and ground-based radiometric tracking that will be used on the future Blue Ring production space vehicle."
From launch to landing and mission end, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket debut should last about six hours, the company has said. If successful, the mission could count towards one of Blue Origin's certification flights of New Glenn for the U.S. Space Force and National Security Space Launch program.
Blue Origin currently has New Glenn launch agreements in place with NASA (to launch the agency's ESCAPADE Mars probes), Amazon (to fly the company's Kuiper internet satellites), AST SpaceMobile (for space-to-phone communications service) and other commercial and government customers.
PP
Re: Bezos Space Flight
Now N.E.T. Jan 8th.
Make that Jan 10th..................
Make that Jan 10th..................
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Sea state now seems to allow a launch at 0100 ET (0600Z) on Sunday 12th. https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission
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A further 24 hour delay due to sea state for booster recovery.
NB Any further delay and the muskrat could attempt to ram New Glenn with his Starship.....................
EDIT: See viewtopic.php?f=43&t=5489&p=405085#p405085 for details on ramming options.
NB Any further delay and the muskrat could attempt to ram New Glenn with his Starship.....................
EDIT: See viewtopic.php?f=43&t=5489&p=405085#p405085 for details on ramming options.
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........and again. Running out of Popcorn.
Re: Bezos Space Flight
I believe that Mister Bezos has some type of service which allows one to order and receive popcorn and other foodstuffs, and may other things, with the ability to receive them rapidly.
No rocket assisted capability yet.
PP
No rocket assisted capability yet.
PP
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Thanks - checking.
Re: Bezos Space Flight
More time to acquire popcorn.
Blue Origin scrubs 1st New Glenn rocket launch due to technical issue
It's unclear when the powerful new rocket will make its debut.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration ... SmartBrief
We'll have to wait a bit longer to see Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lift off for the first time.
Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, aimed to launch its first New Glenn heavy-lift rocket from Florida's Space Coast this morning (Jan. 13), during a three-hour window that opened at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT).
Blue Origin pushed the planned launch time back multiple times before finally calling the attempt off at around 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 GMT).
"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," the company announced via X.
That post did not identify the subsystem or the issue, and neither did the hosts of the company's launch webcast.
This isn't the first launch delay for the 320-foot-tall (98 meters) New Glenn, which features a reusable first stage.
Blue Origin originally aimed to fly this debut mission, which it calls NG-1, on Friday (Jan. 10) but pushed the try back 72 hours due to rough seas in the patch of the Atlantic Ocean where the rocket's first stage is expected to land. (If all goes according to plan, that touchdown will occur on a ship nicknamed Jacklyn, after Bezos' mother.)
Blue Origin has a few days to address the issue; the current NG-1 launch window runs through Jan. 16. The test flight will launch a pathfinder version of Blue Ring, a new spacecraft platform the company has built.
New Glenn, which has been in development for about a decade, is Blue Origin's first orbital-class rocket. The company already flies a reusable suborbital vehicle called New Shepard, which takes people and payloads on brief trips to space.
PP
Blue Origin scrubs 1st New Glenn rocket launch due to technical issue
It's unclear when the powerful new rocket will make its debut.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration ... SmartBrief
We'll have to wait a bit longer to see Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lift off for the first time.
Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, aimed to launch its first New Glenn heavy-lift rocket from Florida's Space Coast this morning (Jan. 13), during a three-hour window that opened at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT).
Blue Origin pushed the planned launch time back multiple times before finally calling the attempt off at around 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 GMT).
"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," the company announced via X.
That post did not identify the subsystem or the issue, and neither did the hosts of the company's launch webcast.
This isn't the first launch delay for the 320-foot-tall (98 meters) New Glenn, which features a reusable first stage.
Blue Origin originally aimed to fly this debut mission, which it calls NG-1, on Friday (Jan. 10) but pushed the try back 72 hours due to rough seas in the patch of the Atlantic Ocean where the rocket's first stage is expected to land. (If all goes according to plan, that touchdown will occur on a ship nicknamed Jacklyn, after Bezos' mother.)
Blue Origin has a few days to address the issue; the current NG-1 launch window runs through Jan. 16. The test flight will launch a pathfinder version of Blue Ring, a new spacecraft platform the company has built.
New Glenn, which has been in development for about a decade, is Blue Origin's first orbital-class rocket. The company already flies a reusable suborbital vehicle called New Shepard, which takes people and payloads on brief trips to space.
PP
Re: Bezos Space Flight
On its way, but might just be a little preeemature....More time to acquire popcorn
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Thursday?? (Launch, not popcorn)
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Blue Origin scrubs 1st New Glenn rocket launch due to technical issue
The company is now targeting early Thursday (Jan. 16) for the liftoff.
PP
The company is now targeting early Thursday (Jan. 16) for the liftoff.
PP
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Wow! They did it. Second stage successfully in orbit. No news of the booster recovery/landing yet and it does not sound as if it worked too well, but overall a terrific achievement for BO.