Blue Origin explosion threatens to delay NASA’s moon program
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blue-origin-explosion-threatens-delays-for-nasas-moon-program/
Blue Origin explosion threatens to delay NASA’s moon program
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blue-origin-explosion-threatens-delays-for-nasas-moon-program/
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Does Grumman have anything sitting around?
like dollar debasement and AI everywhere, nothing stops this train.
I struggle to believe Blue Origin were ever a serious contender for a part in the Artemis program. They just don’t have the experience or track record that SpaceX have. Their only role is as an alternative bidder to keep SpaceX from charging exorbitant amounts.
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Made for some pretty fireworks though
‘Threatens’ doing a lot of work there. They have two companies making landers and both can’t reliably get into orbit, and both are way behind schedule.
Oh, *this* will be the reason for delaying the program. Sure.
Honestly, better explosions during testing than explosions mid moonflight. And the space program has a loooong history of explosive disassemblances during tests anyway.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[AR](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oona2vf “Last usage”)|Area Ratio (between rocket engine nozzle and bell)|
| |Aerojet Rocketdyne|
| |Augmented Reality real-time processing|
| |Anti-Reflective optical coating|
|[BO](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ooqq7dx “Last usage”)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|[CLPS](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonk0tt “Last usage”)|[Commercial Lunar Payload Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services)|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|[ESA](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonkojo “Last usage”)|European Space Agency|
|[ESM](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonkojo “Last usage”)|European Service Module, component of the Orion capsule|
|[EUS](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonxog5 “Last usage”)|Exploration Upper Stage|
|[EVA](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oopz3co “Last usage”)|Extra-Vehicular Activity|
|[GAO](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oosnvh2 “Last usage”)|(US) Government Accountability Office|
|[GTO](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oouivkn “Last usage”)|[Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit](http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/20140116-how-to-get-a-satellite-to-gto.html)|
|[HALO](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oop3zap “Last usage”)|Habitation and Logistics Outpost|
|[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ooughnr “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
|IM|Initial Mass deliverable to a given orbit, without accounting for fuel|
|[IMLEO](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ooq4e5q “Last usage”)|Initial Mass deliverable to LEO, see IM|
|[Isp](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ooq4e5q “Last usage”)|Specific impulse (as explained by [Scott Manley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnisTeYLLgs) on YouTube)|
| |Internet Service Provider|
|[JPL](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonpa9x “Last usage”)|Jet Propulsion Lab, California|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oorroqs “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[LH2](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ootoznw “Last usage”)|Liquid Hydrogen|
|[LOX](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ooo70il “Last usage”)|Liquid Oxygen|
|[MEO](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonhha7 “Last usage”)|Medium Earth Orbit (2000-35780km)|
|[NG](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oorroqs “Last usage”)|New Glenn, two/three-stage orbital vehicle by Blue Origin|
| |Natural Gas (as opposed to pure methane)|
| |Northrop Grumman, aerospace manufacturer|
|[NRHO](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ooo2n5u “Last usage”)|Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit|
|[PPE](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oop3zap “Last usage”)|Power and Propulsion Element|
|[RFP](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oongpj4 “Last usage”)|Request for Proposal|
|[RUD](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonrejl “Last usage”)|Rapid Unplanned Disassembly|
| |Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly|
| |Rapid Unintended Disassembly|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oop3zap “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[SMD](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonpa9x “Last usage”)|Science Mission Directorate, NASA|
|[TMI](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonrumx “Last usage”)|Trans-Mars Injection maneuver|
|[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonfbf7 “Last usage”)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Raptor](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ooqri1f “Last usage”)|[Methane-fueled rocket engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)) under development by SpaceX|
|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ooqsejl “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
|[cislunar](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/oonyqwh “Last usage”)|Between the Earth and Moon; within the Moon’s orbit|
|[cryogenic](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ootoznw “Last usage”)|Very low temperature fluid; materials that would be gaseous at room temperature/pressure|
| |(In re: rocket fuel) Often synonymous with hydrolox|
|[hydrolox](/r/Space/comments/1treyrh/stub/ooqdd4u “Last usage”)|Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|
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HLS likely won’t be the main delaying factor for a lunar landing. The suits are not going to be ready until 2031. Boeing can’t weld anymore so increasing delivery frequency of SLS isn’t going to happen.
This also assumes that ESA don’t stop supplying ESMs now NASA are not honoring their part of the bilateral agreement. If ESA do then there isn’t any backup, there isn’t any alternative in development.
This is also your daily reminder that we could have had a station in lunar orbit by 2028 and be doing awesome science if it had not been cancelled. We could have been launching dozens of microprobes to greatly improve our planetary science programs. We would have had regular access to the moon as soon as HLS and a suit are ready without needing SLS & Orion to take them there.
Isaacman’s timeline was a fantasy from the get-go. This is a wake up call, but the administration won’t listen.
This is gonna ruin the tour.
I don’t have any love for either of these bozos but if I have to pick space penises, I’m choosing SpaceX.
Oh god, we’ll never have the musk data center on the moon at this rate 😭
Man, another setback for Artemis II timing. Seems like every step forward comes with a hardware test that goes sideways. Hope they can isolate the issue quickly without too much schedule ripple.
Ummm…does more than threaten…zero chance there are three missions to the moon next year (not that there was a chance of this anyway).
There’s no “threat.” It absolutely will delay NASA’s moon program.
Bezos and Trump will find a way to push the cost of this explosion onto taxpayers. The delays will be “unforeseen costs”
As a surprise to absolutely nobody.