🚀 Blue Origin New Glenn Launch: Successful Orbit, No Booster Landing

[@janmangu399]

Blue burn was beautiful living up to name BlueOrigin.

[@LukeShy]

Thank you NSF. Us Blue Engineers appreciate your coverage and rocket nerd love.

[@ferkeap]

Well done, get stuff in space. Would have wanted a cubesat dispencer under the blue-payload personally 🙂 Hopefully some physical cotf drawings going up on the 1st stage later as well.

[@jaymac7203]

Its a great start to be fair! Well done Blue Origin.

[@sadburai1]

The official livestream was a pretty good advertisement for Starlink

[@bakbacon]

😂 nailed it in one comment

[@ianrandall482]

Yeah, we have been spoilt by SpaceX. Love ya Elon.

[@L8nitedave]

I mean BS propaganda media sure. But umm I mean. If they can keep doing this how hard is it duplicate that made up facade?

[@johngriffin141]

F'n starship fanboys suck. Elon doesn't own space, get that through your heads

[@seasong7655]

They don't use starlink during launch 🤦

[@zapfanzapfan]

Orbit on the first attempt, congratulations Blue!

[@Andrew-13579]

Yes, not a small or medium but a heavy rocket, 2-stage, methane and hydrogen to orbit, first shot. Quite impressive. Congratulations deserved! Good work! I’m a SpaceX fan, but not against BO. Now let’s get going to the Moon and Mars!

[@ferkeap]

What a beautiful rocket launch. Next up customer launches. And a softer landing.

[@jahoyhoy9097]

Does this mean my Amazon packages will arrive faster now?

[@tomedward8652]

No, but it might cost more.

[@WilboBaggins-dm7ub]

At last...like Adrian emotional after launch...worth the very long wait; Thx NSF

[@BigShooterUnaimed]

3:59:38 - 1 minute til launch, crowd getting hyped 4:00:28 - 10 seconds til ignition and launch 4:38:48 - Hyperlapse of launch

[@sarkaranish]

Awesome launch thanks for the great commentary!!!

[@pawelstankiewicz5284]

Awesome! But using mph, ft ? Why not use sun dials for time ?

[@bookrealms4547]

There are two types of countries: Those who use metric, and those who have put men on the moon. (joke)

[@biosdilt1399]

​@@bookrealms4547those who use metric, and those who have put men on the moon using metric

[@missingMBR]

​@@bookrealms4547to add to the joke, when the Apollo program put men on the moon, the whole program used metric but then translated everything to imperial for the televised broadcasts.

[@geenerheimer9266]

Dumb American won't use metric says the guy who won't use imperial. When you build rockets use whatever you like. Until then stop being a disrespectful smartass

[@JohnKoenig-db8lk]

Another butthurt foreigner with penis-envy.

[@LMN3_Works]

I'm team SpaceX, but man people do really forget that they also failed landing the first three boosters of Falcon rocket. Blue Glenn made it in orbit first try.

[@kentslocum]

True, but SpaceX was much faster to launch. Blue Origin took its sweet time getting to launch, which raised hopes that it was much better prepared for landing. I'm not a SpaceX apologist, but I think this launch shows that there's no substitute for real-life experience; thus sort of validating SpaceX's approach.

[@Owencr905]

@@kentslocum it’s more that SpaceX just works insanely fast compared to anyone else.

[@Andrew-13579]

4:38:00. That’s an amazing view. Spotlight effect! Never saw anything like that before. Did they engineer that? 😂. Sort of like the projected Batman signal. The Blue Origin signal. 😀

[@michaelchez6638]

Congratulations! I can't wait for the next one in four years.

[@captainkep2252]

That was a nice blue flame. Glad i got to see it up close

[@corrinastanley125]

Great commentary and awesome footage and pic's. Thanks NSF team.

[@pedrosura]

Grest job! On first launch!! This is what success looks like

[@ruphind8376]

NSF team thank you very professional amazing

[@direbearcoat7551]

Wow! Speed in Miles Per Hour, altitude in miles and in feet! That was fantastic!

[@adenwellsmith6908]

Awful. You can't compare the two easily.

[@johngriffin141]

@@adenwellsmith6908 you can't, go back to school

[@alexvives1335]

Did anyone else see the almost spotlight like effect with the plume?

[@SneezingEagle]

Superb work! Great effort from Blue Orgiin

[@thegoodlookinorange1986]

What a great day for Blue Origin and private space flight. The catch will come. Let’s goooo.😊

[@nicomeier8098]

It's about time that thing finally got off the ground.

[@carloscaparroslledo1130]

Using miles instead of the metric system for space flight is wild

[@Viper3dc]

Wow that was very slow at the start... And this without heavy Payload... Only some very light payload

[@rjswas]

Keep in mind so was starship at the start, they will improve on it just like they have with starship, and to be fair, this did better than starship on its maiden flight.

[@Rajesh16420]

@@rjswasYes, but starship was MUCH more wip (earlier prototype) in first flight in comparison to New Glenn which was supposed to work fine...

[@cornishrider7876]

Interesting too see how it develops all engines seemed nominal with a very slow ascent, starship lost a few engines on the first flight ascent, but I guess they know what there doing better than me 😂

[@Arrynek01]

Glad I wasn't dreaming that.

[@manuelsilva8640]

BE-4 engine's first flight test was on 8 January 2024 on the Vulcan Centaur rocket. It should be up to specs now. The 45 metric tons to LEO will crawl from the pad...

[@wadewilson524]

Is it just me or does 12 1/2 minutes to orbit seem oddly slow?

[@L8nitedave]

Um well I think that might actually be a good thing.

[@LloydBurris-dz1ir]

Cool, welcome to the club.

[@Acid_8501]

Maybe a good reason why it is so slow is to not injure any unprepared civilians that go with

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

was the rocket full of payload?

[@Owencr905]

Carried ‘Prototype Dark-Sky1 Blue Ring Pathfinder’

[@biodieseler1]

The distance from Leeds to York is either 26 miles or a million miles, depending on your point of view.

[@stephenskinner3851]

Congratulation New Glenn. The US now has an additional rocket company.

[@ricardo-iw9sq]

I say well done to getting off the pad but to say its the first to orbit is a mile stone is a bit much, if you set a rocket on a none return path then yes its in orbit, but this took 10 years to build and on its first test the reusable first stage went wrong so I hope they have a full instigation like what X has to do and will the fisheries get involved because it didn't make the landing spot so the debris field wont be as indicated . Space X in my opinion is pushing boundaries in development to make a first and second stage reusable and to work out how to get re entry to work safely so as to have people in side and not just cargo. Blue origin has the moto slow and steady or it could be slow and see what others do be for we put pen to paper. COME ON FLIGHT 7 woop woop

[@johngriffin141]

boohoo fanboy

[@aarondyson3509]

Its like when you go to a Concert and you have the supporting acts first, main event tonight ;)

[@riverakers]

If Space X wanted to but a Starship into orbit they could have.

[@L8nitedave]

But Blue Glen couldn't? I think you have a kind of "telling" and quite in-objective coulda, woulda, shoulda, going on there.

[@johngriffin141]

Go cry to Elon fanboy

[@AdamPNelson]

Competition will be great.

[@tomedward8652]

Does anyone know if they already have a second first stage booster available - or it will be a long wait for them to build another one?

[@winman14may]

Lovely

[@nikos6220]

Tough times in the space industry. Gone are the times when getting a massive upper stage into orbit on the first try got you any laurels. But then only reusability brings you commercially anywhere near SpaceX. this opens the window for paid flights so it won’t be Jeff’s coffers alone anymore. Great news after such a long time in the making

[@necsoiub]

Laurels for what? People did much more impressive rocket launches more than 60 years ago.

[@sonofamortician]

congratulations BO team

[@SpartanGuy]

I barely just missed it. What was the result of landing attempt?

[@frograilfanning]

booster did not land

[@Crayton9172]

Flopped

[@XuânHuyMai-t6b]

the rocket reached orbit, but the booster was lost

[@timmurphy5541]

The booster's engines relit which is good but it was lost.

[@justinnorris9649]

When does the movie come out

[@war_fish]

Pretty good starlink advertisement

[@mrvan5347]

🎉 thx

[@marvinmbongwa]

Wonderful

[@Emil-se2er]

Congratulations to BO! It seemed to me that something was not right with the fairings. Looked like the opening was incomplete but they stopped the translation. I will not be surprised if they took the fairings all the way to orbit. I wander if they will be able to operate the satellite. Whatever, seeing the booster going up was fiery.

[@projectspace786]

Awesome

[@PhilippeP62]

Well that was visually disappointing , but congrats to reaching orbital.

[@lodgecav490]

Some discipline required during commentary guys, that was bordering on unwatchable at times. Ryan made it tolerable, but thanks anyways.

[@eerice704]

I agree

[@obviouslytom]

Launch #2 will be in another 5 years

[@thepathnotfound]

No landing?

[@ATM015]

Confirmed first stage booster loss

[@gyulagyorffy5937]

4:00:21 My meeting's starting at work... Will have to get back later

[@dr_disgusted]

very impressive mr bezos! make us proud.

[@ouethojlkjn]

Hmm a Rocket that literally does not go up like a Rocket...

[@geenerheimer9266]

If a bird had landed on her she wouldn't have made it off the pad. But congratulations on a successful launch.

[@digi3218]

Lol 🐦

[@TheraPi]

Pity we did not see the booster

[@aspiwug1606]

Why did it go so slow

[@rtzx12570]

Blue Origin are not the first metholox to orbit. This was achieved by a Chinese commercial group last year. If you are comparing to Spacex the only close comparison is Falcon heavy as a semi reusable ship. Heavy has been delivering to orbit for a long time although the mass is not as much as BO may be capable of in theory as BO has yet to launch anything let alone take a larger payload into space. Well done to BO and they are now close to being a potential contender for the commercial space industry. Good to moving that way reuseable or semi is better than not resuable it makes it more commercially viable and in the competition. It is a shame that people / media make out that it is a competition for bragging rights. In business first to market is not always best commercially. Bragging that you are first yet still not profitable is not something many shout to loudly about. It will be interesting to see what the commercial market is for 40Mt payloads whether single or multiple satellite loads. Falcon heavy does not fly that regularly or as much as they could. Is this because the market is not there?

[@benjicorm1325]

With a twr that bad what are you putting into orbit?

[@manuelsilva8640]

I assume they are not deorbiting the 2nd stage...

[@ThePlecoPal]

You need to stop putting spoilers in the title

[@seafighter4]

I wonder if the decision to show mph and feet instead of kmp and meters was politically informed/meant to set themselves appart from SpaceX or not.

It's a USA Rocket. We use MPH and Feet. Deal with it.

[@kresimirbozic1976]

NASA is a US space agency. They use metric. Deal with it.

@ Sit on it.

[@SimonARBaker]

Too much chatter over control comms

[@princejoshuapetalcorin6328]

Congratulations Blue Orgin team and Mr. Jeff bezos😊

[@YouCanHasAccount]

Kinda cringe of BO to not say a word about the fate of stage 1. How hard is it to admit the booster was lost? Sharp contrast to how SpaceX communicates it's non-nominal outcomes.

[@Breadfan00]

yeah it's kinda embarrassing because now everybody is asking

[@mrgoatkicker]

It’s embarrassing that all you know is how to compare to SpaceX 😂

[@randomnickify]

Spaces was also hiding their first failures, unless we actually saw them on video.

[@violety_indigo52]

Did we watched the same stream? She did said that they had lost the booster.

[@violety_indigo52]

You guys are soooo pathetic. If you don't like their success atleast not bad mouth them. Childish behaviour.

[@Andrew-13579]

You guys should get some sort of acknowledgment from Jeff Bezos, because you showed the launch much better than BO did! 😀

[@Owencr905]

SpaceX fanboys are furious right now

[@Stvescr]

Would you stop talking so much over the flight center comms audio.

[@FarchyLovesAnarchy]

it did not land

[@ferkeap]

Softly....

[@violety_indigo52]

First attempt. Not bad. SpaceX too lost tons of its booster before first successful attempt.

[@kentslocum]

​@@violety_indigo52True. Except that Blue Origin was trying the "measure twice, cut once" method, which raised hopes that they were prepared to nail the booster landing on the first try.

[@markbph2336]

great development, new glenn flies and is viable.... another option-competition to dragon... ariane.... vulcan.... the MAIN COURSE comes in the next few days. STAR SHIP....... radical new technologies, a spacecraft with concepts and capabilities different to any rocket we have seen before. im also looking forward to sierra spaces mini shuttle launch.

[@jevriend4992]

Finally a real rocket and no banana rocket

[@chrislawley6801]

So this is trying to do what SpaceX has successfully been doing for years ?

[@geenerheimer9266]

Don't be like that, do better set better examples. Regardless of the company or the dick who owns it. We all should want to see humans succeed.

[@cube2fox]

Reaching orbit on their first try?

[@Skyrage01]

​@@cube2foxFirst try does not matter. What matters is how soon they can repeat it and keep repeating it.

[@cube2fox]

@ Surely very soon! They have obligations regarding Mars after all.

[@jakub9814]

4:00:24

[@mrgoatkicker]

Can tell a lot of these fanboys only know how to frame their thinking with SpaceX comparisons

[@horsthacker6355]

Not impressed. No video from seperation, entry or landing.

[@LuigiRBedin]

... BO should buy Starlink terminal for the boats

[@Diego-v9w3c]

❤Grandes cosas pueden pasarle a quien cree en Dios. Yo me deprimí porque tenía una deuda de más de 12.000, pero para gloria de Dios, saldé mi deuda y sigo generando dinero para mí y mi familia. Dios bendiga a la señora RITA S DIANA, Dios la ha usado para cambiar muchas vidas.🇪🇸✌️

[@KarlRhodesUK]

STOP TALKING WHEN MISSION CONTROL TALK!

[@Nordwind46]

I was here

[@plexisgaming]

how anti-climatic. SpaceX has been flying heavy lift vehicles for how long now and is working on developing a super heavy launch vehicles?

[@drmitchgibson]

Prepare Uranus

[@BJCulpepper]

I cannot describe how disappointing this is. It is like getting used to quality paintings from SpaceX to only see crayon coloring books here. Where are all the clear camera views? That should have been worked out long before now. What's up with all of the overexcitement trying to be like SpaceX? ☹️

[@Pjx1989]

Congratulations, but to be fair the commentary was quite cringe. The commentators playing dumb and asking questions to the other after a while was quite ridiculous

[@cube2fox]

The Blue Origin commentators or the NSF ones??

[@CandiceJoergan]

Very primitive next to SpaceX but still quite a belated partial success!!!!

[@mrgoatkicker]

Remind me, how many launches for SpaceX to first reach orbit?

[@tractordude234]

You aren't a serious person

[@violety_indigo52]

Blue reached orbit on their first attempt while SpaceX didn't and fhey lost maaaany of their first stage before successful landing attempt

[@L8nitedave]

Umm actually way better than Space X.

[@digi3218]

How many years ago did SpaceX reach orbit and land a booster.. I'll wait for you to count using your fingers on both hands..

[@B0M0A0K]

The first Starship launch failed and was terminated, the first New Glenn launch was successful, all the way to orbit. So they lost the booster, but they will have been collecting data that will help them fix things for the next flight. All the 'nay sayers' (I was one of them) need to acknowledge this. Well done to all the technicians at Blue, looking forward to the next one.