Blue Origin's New Glenn Has Begun Launch Pad Testing!

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It seems each week we are receiving a new Blue Origin update from the company as they get closer to the maiden flight of New Glenn. Usually, they keep most information to themselves, however with the launch approaching, full-scale preparations tend to be much harder to hide and involve massive stages and infrastructure.
Just yesterday we got new images showcasing the structural New Glenn test article moved and raised vertically on the company’s launch site. This comes in addition to all the recent progress with the actual flight hardware and mating of the first and second stages. As of right now, Blue Origin is still planning to launch New Glenn for the first time late this year on a mission to Mars. Here I will go more in-depth into the recent test, its purpose, what it means for the future launch, and more.
Credit:
SpaceX - / spacex
NASA - / @nasa
Blue Origin - / blueoriginchannel
Max Evans (NSF) - / _mgde_
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - New Glenn Is Vertical
3:07 - A Risky Maiden Flight

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@sarkaranish 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for not being a spacex fanboy and covering ALL space news fairly and impartially!

@haydentravis3348 2 ай бұрын

Blue Origin's own fault for being so secretive.

@joansparky4439 2 ай бұрын

plenty of sx haters on this channel though.. u will feel at home in no time.

@sarkaranish 2 ай бұрын

@@haydentravis3348 there is a ton of news abt bo, but they are secretive you're right.

@sarkaranish 2 ай бұрын

@@joansparky4439not a hater, i just hate how annoying fanboys are

@joansparky4439 2 ай бұрын

@ sarkaranish Oh, ULA/BO fanboys annoy u as well? OK, I might have been wrong about the at-home-feeling then. 🙃

@mikedicenso2778 2 ай бұрын

The boilerplate New Glenn, or GS-1 Simulator as Blue calls it, does have a boilerplate 2nd stage mated on top of it. It's that gray ring and truss structure.

@RogerM88 2 ай бұрын

This channel been a breeze of fresh air covering the Space industry. Covering other Rocket companies, without flirting with the SpaceX fanboy base. Many of them, casuals brought to the industry by Musk.

@ryantyznar2247 2 ай бұрын

Lol filthy casuals. I agree though, this channel not sensationalizing its info is really nice. I’ve been blocking other “space news” channels because I’m so sick of my time being wasted with 20 minute videos that manage to say nothing of importance.

@RogerM88 2 ай бұрын

@@ryantyznar2247 Already tired of sensationalist thumbnails from fanboy channels as "Engineering Today", "Great SpaceX", or "Alpha Tech".

@sarkaranish 2 ай бұрын

@@ryantyznar2247 I despise What About It and Marcus House as well as all the clickbait channels. This is my go-to space channel, with NASA Space Flight being good for live updates on starbase, Everyday Astronaut being good for understanding rockets, and CSI Starbase to understand the engineering. Anyone else is trash in my opinion.

@NIX_lost 2 ай бұрын

Gatekeeping is not the way

@cube2fox 2 ай бұрын

The channel is great, but I bet his terribly monotonic speaking voice costs him a lot of potential viewers. Most other channels do this way better.

@user-ev9ce7uo7r 2 ай бұрын

Thank you all for the excitement and encouragement. I guarantee you we are working HARD to get this vehicle airborne, and the positivity really helps motivate!

@andrewbstevens 2 ай бұрын

There are a lot of us out here excited for New Glenn! Can't wait to see it fly!

@dalel3608 2 ай бұрын

Fling those tiny orbiters to Mars! 😂 The disparity between the launcher & payload is hilarious, but at least it's useful instead of cheese or a car.

@user-sj5lc3uw2i 2 ай бұрын

im so excited for new glenn

@trucksanddirt1506 2 ай бұрын

Go BO, you have a bright future. That picture looks very cool.

@twelvecylinders6273 2 ай бұрын

that rocket actually looks pretty good!

@SillyBillih 2 ай бұрын

First to find out some New Glenn info

@leschortos9196 2 ай бұрын

I agree , you can poo,poo blue all you want but that's some nice looking hardware hope it works.

@SillyBillih 2 ай бұрын

@@leschortos9196 what?

@TechDude452 2 ай бұрын

Awesome video! Go BLUE!

@Hoopaball 2 ай бұрын

I really hope to see Rocket Lab put two orbital spacecraft into Mars orbit. Hopefully all teams make this window. It'd be nice to know what's going on with the magnetosphere and put some more hardware up around Mars.

@PaulSpades 2 ай бұрын

ohhh, my. This thing looks massive! I mean, I knew it was going to be a heavy lift vehicle almost the size of Saturn 5, but it's still surprisingly large. So, you're saying it might fly this year?

@MaxStax88 2 ай бұрын

Yes, planning our launch in august. But we are on a time crunch. Some hardware is being produced at a rapid pace to try and meet the august deadline. That said im optimistic but more likely fly in q1 2025

@jeffjames3111 2 ай бұрын

That's a big boi! :D

@waynep343 2 ай бұрын

Every time i hear New Glen the words. It's a cookbook flash into my mind.

@i-love-space390 2 ай бұрын

So New Glenn is almost as powerful as Falcon Heavy in its fully expended configuration.

@i-love-space390 2 ай бұрын

I know New Glenn has been tested exhaustively, but risking actual payloads on a maiden flight is something that never used to happen. For me it is crazy. If I was a payload manufacturer, I would not trust them to be perfect on the first flight.

@TheEvilmooseofdoom 2 ай бұрын

Happens all the time. Even the first flight of a Falcon 1 had a payload.

@12pentaborane 2 ай бұрын

More often than not before the 21st century that was the norm. Dummy test payloads is a recent development.

@tyrantfox7801 2 ай бұрын

Vulcan did it without an issue. It's payload was failed

@logjam88 2 ай бұрын

Quiet confidence in their spacecraft. That's refreshing.

@alexlabs4858 2 ай бұрын

It’s a good looking rocket. Way too ambitious of a first flight by a company who has never been to orbit but we’ll have to see what happens.

@UghIHateTheseThings 2 ай бұрын

With how much time they’ve been taking while also putting so much money into it, I think they can pull it off. I’m also a Blue Origin bear too so that says a lot.

@Zacharysharkhazard 2 ай бұрын

I dunno, they may pull it off. They have launch and landing experience with New Shepherd, and have proven the BE-4 engines on Vulcan. The only milestone they haven’t hit is orbit, everything else they seem to have done.

@yaxleader 2 ай бұрын

Blue Origin is all about taking things one step at a time instead of jumping straight to just launching and seeing what happens. Totally different philosophy from companies like SpaceX. They're more similar to ULA in theory so use ULA style baselines for your guesses, not SpaceX style.

@jamskinner 2 ай бұрын

@yaxleader Big difference between ULA and BO. ULA actually goes to orbit. BO doesn’t.

@mig4868 2 ай бұрын

I'd love to see Blue Origin come out and prove the doubters wrong. We are hard on them because we want those pretty animations they make to be real one day.

@hawkdsl 2 ай бұрын

It's kinda funny that New Glen might make it to Mars before Starship... Yep.. that's fkn funny. (Cue the "Fandom"... GO! 🤣) Regardless, NG is a cool looking bird. Doesn't matter who owns the thing, another large hauler is good for the country. Oh and the New Glen is just the middle rocket. There is tentative plans for New Armstrong, which is Starship size.

@TheEvilmooseofdoom 2 ай бұрын

BO isn't going to mars, its sending a payload that way.

@hawkdsl 2 ай бұрын

@@TheEvilmooseofdoom Yes, I know. NG sending a prob to mars before Starship is even past prototype phase is a surprising W for BO.

@TheEvilmooseofdoom 2 ай бұрын

@@hawkdsl Surprising? It's been in development for about 12 years. The SS starship for about half that.

@hawkdsl 2 ай бұрын

@@TheEvilmooseofdoom Que the Fandom!🤣 NG started in 2012, Starship started in 2009

@classydave75 2 ай бұрын

@@TheEvilmooseofdoom Serious development on New Glenn started around 2015/2016, two to three years earlier than Starship (which started around 2018 after the work on Falcon Heavy was completed), with a smaller team, partially busy on New Shepard. BO took more time probably, but it's not twice the time SpaceX spent on Starship. And those are educated guesses, there is no precise public info about it, as both companies are private...

@nicolamastascusa8173 2 ай бұрын

It would be mind boggling if Blue Origin comes out of the blue and beats Starship to orbit. Probably won't happen, since IFT-3 is already stacked and ready to go. Would still be impressive to see New Glenn fly this year.

@IbnBahtuta 2 ай бұрын

So, third time lucky? rofl

@michaeldeierhoi4096 2 ай бұрын

Space X should be able to launch at least a couple more starships after ITF-3 so their chance of success only improves.

@michaeldeierhoi4096 2 ай бұрын

@@IbnBahtuta Space X was very close to the Starship making it into their suborbital trajectory this time. And if they solved the issue with booster during the flip before boost back that would be a big step as well.

@nicolamastascusa8173 2 ай бұрын

It really doesn't matter. If they don't do it with IFT-3, they'll do it with 4, 5 or 6. It'll take some time before they land anything anyway, and even more time to refurbish and re-fly. The main competition now is to see which company can manage to land an orbital first stage next, and if they can do it before SpaceX achieves full reusability. It'll either be Blue Origin, Rocket lab or some Chinese company for sure.@@michaeldeierhoi4096

@nicolamastascusa8173 2 ай бұрын

By December of 2025, it'll be 10 years since SpaceX landed their first Falcon 9 first stage. I wonder if anyone else will have landed a first stage by then?@@IbnBahtuta

@kennethferland5579 2 ай бұрын

This is the proper way to do enginering, you don't try to fly a test article crossing your fingers to see if it blows up. You test to VALIDATE the design, not to CREATE the design.

@joansparky4439 2 ай бұрын

TL;DR: kennethferland5579 doesn't know how engineering works

@TheEvilmooseofdoom 2 ай бұрын

@@joansparky4439 Lots of people like to pretend they know more than they do.

@MrAlanCristhian 2 ай бұрын

I think that both Musk and Bezos are bad examples of how to do engineering. If you have infinite budjet, you can destroy 50 prototypes like Musk, or whait 20 years without provide a service like Bezos. A normal company have to succes with a constraint budget and tight deadlines.

@TheEvilmooseofdoom 2 ай бұрын

@@MrAlanCristhian Nonsense.

@joansparky4439 2 ай бұрын

@ MrAlanCristhian another non-engineer has entered the chat.. 🙄

@FishyAltFishy 2 ай бұрын

Way cooler looking than falcon 9

@ronwatkins5775 2 ай бұрын

I think it's completely un-realistic to expect this thing to make it to space at all on the first attempt. It's taken at least 3 attempts from SpaceX to make it to space, why would this be any different?

@cube2fox 2 ай бұрын

SLS and Vulcan both succeeded with their first launch. They probably did a lot more pre-flight testing than SpaceX did with Starship.

@ronwatkins5775 2 ай бұрын

@@cube2fox Im just concerned because both Nasa and B.O. are using the old-school method of rocket design and not keeping up with the new model used by SpaceX.

@thorin1045 2 ай бұрын

actual competency versus lack of it. the new shepard did its job on first try, on second attempt, they recovered the booster. not everyone launch half finished stuff for the sake of explosions.

@ronwatkins5775 2 ай бұрын

@@thorin1045 Yep, no body can match the experience of spacex. ULA doesn't even come close in number of launches and B.O. doesn't have anything at all except new Shepard.

@thorin1045 2 ай бұрын

@@ronwatkins5775 yep, no other group near space exploded more stuff than spacex, the rest prefers success over big badabum. ula has perfect record, shepard has quite a good record, perfect for payload, not bad for boosters. nasa in the fifties had better record than spacex with its 'development.' but hey, if you lucky the bo moon lander will not be ready before the hls, mostly becouse the stolen three year of development time, but still, it counts for you.

@MAM80233 2 ай бұрын

So Much of your Video is SO SO old!

@NOM-X 2 ай бұрын

B.O.'s New Glen better do its job on its "first time go." It's been how long, and even ULA's Centaur that used BE-4's was a successful flight (Besides the Moon landing." There is only so much you can talk about when it comes to this arrogant rocket. (see the trend). I truly think they are to worried that it will not perform to its standards, and Jeff really needs to see a shrink. We all do. It's in the F9 class, and has not done anything except look pretty. I still hold true to the fact that they used ULA as a test for its BE-4 engines, witch is very inconsiderate. They have to try , and try soon. No one with respect to space flight is going to laugh if it doesn't succeed. Look at X, how may times did they fail before. hey know how to build a Rocket. They just want perfection at the same time. They are also getting help from X, and NASA for development. But stubbornness only last for so long. This is either a lack of funds, or insecurity. Just put the darn rocket up. I will succeed! Look at ULA. The BE-4's worked phenomenally, and had no issues. "Perfection cannot be gained on the first try." Its time for it to sit there or go. Sheppard is great, but Glenn is viable. There are less factors than what we are seeing. Its coming, and the anticipation is growing. I hope you use some of this content in your next episode about boring origin. Light the damn candle already. Thanks for a great episode. -- NOM

@michaeldeierhoi4096 2 ай бұрын

FYI. The ULA Centaur is the second stage of the Vulcan rocket uses the Rocketdyne RL-10 liquid hydrogen liquid oxygen HL LOX engines. It is the Vulcan that uses the Be-4 NG LOX engines.

@michaeldeierhoi4096 2 ай бұрын

By the way Blue Origin will launch when they are ready. Getting into orbit is hard enough, but sending the first mission to Mars is another level of difficulty especially for the maiden flight. If they aren't ready by the end of the first quarter that payload will be delayed a couple years. In which case another payload would probably be substituted. They can take good comfort in the performance of the Be-4 on Vulcan's maiden launch.

@classydave75 2 ай бұрын

"I truly think they are to worried that it will not perform to its standards"... I truly think they don't worry at all and progress carefully and professionally. They will launch when ready. "There is only so much you can talk about when it comes to this arrogant rocket"... It's a rocket. An inanimate object which cannot display any human behavioral characteristics. "Look at X, how may times did they fail before"... Easy to waive a hand at that when most of the money you burn comes from subsidies and private investors (about 85+ different entities). Not to mention the HLS contract... "They are also getting help from X, and NASA for development"... SpaceX working with BO on New Glenn? That would be a nice brotherly collaboration, but that's not the case. They are getting help from NASA (just like SpaceX is) but when it comes to funding, BO relies only on Amazon and how much stock Bezos sells to inject in it (except for the freshly awarded Artemis contract and the Space Force support).

@yaxleader 2 ай бұрын

Pretty presumptuous to assume SpaceX is helping BO at all. From that statement alone I know you have 0 idea what you're talking about.

@jamskinner 2 ай бұрын

@michaeldeierhoi4096 My understanding is the launch to mars would be summer into late fall. That’s the launch window. Correct me if I’m wrong.

@stephenallen4374 2 ай бұрын

The aerodynamic surfaces on new Glenn will not work without sufficient drag which they do not have also it will not land vertically it will destroy it's engines it is a lemon 🍋😂

@thorin1045 2 ай бұрын

as we all know, if it clears the launch pad on first attempt, it is already total success, everything else is cake on the ice.

@TheEvilmooseofdoom 2 ай бұрын

I love it when pretend experts pretend.

@oberonpanopticon 2 ай бұрын

I’m sure you’re smarter than a team of rocket scientists

@classydave75 2 ай бұрын

@@thorin1045 I will 100% use that new Musk success metric if New Glenn fails after it clears the launch pad. Just to make fun of Musk cult members. Indeed, with that way of thinking, we can already say BO will be successful (which I hope) no matter what. Rules for me, not for thee...

@jamskinner 2 ай бұрын

I’m not a BO fan but don’t post garbage.

@metriczeppelin 2 ай бұрын

Please update your video by removing the shots of BO staff wearing face diapers. It's an unnessaccary trigger for many people. Cheers

@TheEvilmooseofdoom 2 ай бұрын

You have to be pretty weak minded to be triggered by that. Maybe it's time for you to seek help rather than demand the world conform to your issues. That's snowflake level nonsense,

@GrumpyBearU_U 2 ай бұрын

Please don't remove them. If anyone is actually triggered by them, let them be triggered.

@classydave75 2 ай бұрын

Face masks are one of the tools of epidemiology to help in slowing down the progression of any given epidemic. Already at the end of the 17th century, masks started to be worn by doctors when visiting those afflicted by the plague. And after that when nurses and doctors observed that less patients were dying when they wear scarfs during surgery... They aren't a perfect tool against bacterial and viral infections but they have their proven utility in helping to combat those. Triggered by it? Oh, you poor anti-science baby. Go watch your favorite right winger freak. This is a space info channel, it's obviously not for you.

@violety_indigo52 2 ай бұрын

Why your feelings are so fragile, dear?

@metriczeppelin 2 ай бұрын

@@violety_indigo52 I'm not fragile at at all, it actually pisses me off how our government lied and took advantage of us, if you need to know.