Blue Origin delays 1st New Glenn rocket launch due to rough seas for landing
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/blue-origin-delays-1st-new-glenn-rocket-launch-due-to-rough-seas-for-landing
Blue Origin delays 1st New Glenn rocket launch due to rough seas for landing
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/blue-origin-delays-1st-new-glenn-rocket-launch-due-to-rough-seas-for-landing
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Really is a nail biter of a race between IFT7 and New Glenn. So many unexpected twists
We’re going to have two giant reusable methane-fueled rockets launching within a couple days of each other. The New Glenn design is amazing, the Starship design is amazing. They’re both massive improvements over the Space Shuttles, or any of those expendable rockets. The progress in US orbital rockets over the past 15 years is just insane.
This would not be happening if Popeye was on the team.
If not for spaceX, New Glenn launching would be the biggest deal in the space industry ever…
I remember watching the drone footage of the first successful Falcon 9 drone ship landing on the CRS-8 mission. My jaw dropped to the floor when that booster delicately touched down on the barge deck upright for the first time, like something right out of science fiction.
I hope there will be drone footage of the first New Glenn landing if their new launch window coincides with daytime!
(I thought it was odd their original launch window is late at night. One would think on an inaugural flight they would want daytime so the ground-based tracking cameras can film the booster on ascent in case there are anomalies.)
Gonna be a hot week! Just hoping both succeed (and usher in more competition).