Watch Blue Origin Launch New Glenn For The First Time!

[@Arashi_233]

A better blue origin motivates a better spaceX. A better spaceX motivates a better blue origin. Welcome to the Age of Space Exploration, ladies and gentlemen.

[@oynarn]

absolute cinema

[@bluemamba5317]

We have done this for almost 70 years, it's no big deal. Only difference is now it's coorporational with government aid instead of governmental with corporate aid.

[@galactic-guy]

​@@bluemamba5317 We've had reusable rockets for 70 years???

[@sparrowlt]

@@bluemamba5317 Somehow i dont see all new private launchers lobing to just stay in one point where they dont care how expensive and ineficient the launch system is cause they all bill the same and there is no alternative and decide to freeze space travel development for 30 years

[@buenaventuralosgrandes9266]

man i hope other space company follows up like blue origin and spacex.

[@benjaminbrown3939]

Looked like a Saturn V rocket going so slow

[@yaxleader]

I mean, it's pretty much the same size lol

[@karliszauers1]

TWR at liftoff is around 1.1 so even lower than Saturn V

[@TraditionalAnglican]

I think we’ve been spoiled by Starlink.

[@phillacovara4382]

💯, nobody has the continuous space-based video fidelity of Starlink.

[@Nil-js4bf]

Got goosebumps on the final 10 second countdown. Nothing like cheering for the launch of a new rocket. They made it to orbit cleanly. Time will tell what needs to be tweaked to land the first stage.

[@clevergirl4457]

huge moment if you're truly a fan of spaceflight! they made orbit flawlessly, with their new heavy lifter, on their first orbital launch attempt! SpaceX finally has a true competitor in their rear view mirror! Sure they lost GS-1 on descent but they WILL very likely land next time.

[@thedarkside13]

1:33:04 - T-10, 1:33:10 - T-4//Lift off, 1:34:50 - Max Q, 1:36:18 - Meco, 1:36:25 - Stage separation, 1:37:08 - Fairing separation, 1:40:44 - Booster reentry burn, 1:46:10 - Seco 1. I hope next time they will use Starlink for their live coverage.

[@pingusmcdingus5]

If I had to guess I'd say re-entry burn started way too late. Not sure how accurate the telemetry was, but re-entry burn appears to start at T-7:46 at an altitude of 124,514ft / 37.9km and velocity at 5046mph / 8120.7kmph. Telemetry is lost at T-7:55 at an altitude of 84,226 ft / 25.6km and velocity at 5046mph / 6896kmph which is pretty toasty at that altitude.

[@maxmclean3640]

Depressing that they don’t use the starlink network for the stream all I saw was the rocket taking off, like 1/7 parts of the actual mission. 😢

[@Klassicmix]

Was So boring

[@keithmcdonald7256]

A shame they lost the booster, but rockets are hard. Awesome launch though, fingers crossed for the next one. You turned me on to Space X with hopper thanks. it makes me feel like a kid again, I remember watching the Gemini Friendship 7 launch. Something marvelous is going to happen.

[@nickwiese3651]

Is it me or is that thing slow as hell getting off the pad??

[@DraecorInc]

haha, I also said "why is it so slow?" but figured there must be a reason I don't understand

[@raptorwhite6468]

I don't know how efficient such a slow liftoff is, but it looks really cool

[@gazza1059]

It's at its heaviest

[@yaxleader]

It's a hefty boi

[@idris4587]

Its very large so it may seem to be going slow but that thang is burning

[@hmk..]

The biggest oak tree was once a seedling as small as spinach. Well done!

[@Shmoatx]

Love this

[@raybilverstone2066]

Blue Glen have done what starship have ever done launch a rocket into space on their first flight well done blue glen we’re proud of you 👍 .

[@theagentsmith]

From the control room someone spoke metric units, but on the graphics feet and mph? Whose feet? Shaquille O'Neal? Tom Cruise?

[@defendmoon6813]

Yeah really dumb when you realise the metric system is used everywhere in the science community but they only use it for Americans that don't know anything else then freedom numbers.

[@Holly12245]

It didn't leave the pad slow; it was the live feed. I was watching it in person while watching the live feed. The feed was also 3 minutes behind.

[@myfavoritemartian1]

Seriously, you can smile now Jeff!

[@jeanholley5820]

Congrats to the Blue Origin team! Big one today!

[@MaxMakaan]

Amazing purple flame from NG1, congratulations to BlueOrigin team... They should upgrade I-net to Starlink...We are waiting for Spaceship 7 test flight! Good luck to SpaceX, the best private space industry, transportation and science!

[@KrzysztofBorowski]

where are the metric data! :)

[@Rangifulla]

I wish Blue Origin used proper units for speed and altitude

[@TankEnMate]

Why does Blue Origin use Imperial Units unlike every other space flight company? It's just plain weird

[@axelvetter]

They just don't care about the 7.6 billion people in 195 or so countries that use SI units. But I found it refreshing Blue Origin apparently used historic cameras to cover the event as a nod to the 70s. ;-)

[@Simon-ui6db]

@@axelvetter Well in the UK we use both so we're cool with it.

[@gracialonignasiver6302]

Or, the rest of the world can make their own rockets to launch into orbit and use SI units for their televised events.

[@andrewworth7574]

While the graphics showed imperial, the verbal updates I heard were metric

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

easy to understand

[@Mike93527]

Def a little scary getting off the pad. It didn’t look like it was going to make it. I was waiting for it fall back down. Wonder if that’s normal. Congrats Blue Origin! You guys have a beautiful rocket. I think you already won in the looks department

[@nooblangpoo]

Man we are really spoiled by SpaceX's Starlink videofeeds. Still GREAT JOB BLUE ORIGIN, LETS LIGHT THIS CANDLE FOR THE FUTURE.

[@ouethojlkjn]

So did the booster land? was there no footage of this?

[@galactic-guy]

Why tf do they still use ft and mph? Beautiful flight though

[@tmada8270]

Point of correction: The first US methane based rocket to reach orbit was a starship

[@Lathnor]

Whish they used meter system instead of feet system but fly safe blue origin!

[@LillyRocket]

Oh they surely are internally. Its either an oversight or pandering in public.

[@AZOffRoadster]

Pretty ballsy to go INTO orbit without knowing if you can do a controlled de-orbit. Roll the dice. Do I land on YOUR city? Eh, I can afford it.

[@roddyd5673]

Why has space x pulled the pin? Thks Rod

[@osychenko]

Isn't it logic that it really must underperform in the very beginning to reduce the damage from the plume? Throttle it down for like 10 seconds and then full on

[@hunterleebrown]

Why launch a new rocket for the first time at night? SLS first launch was also at night. Seems like they could find another launch window for better visibility.

[@flyingB2]

Great launch🚀

[@Allen2-z8x]

Partial Success

[@davesatxify]

No need to circularize the orbit?

[@lepompier132]

After how many years did this project take off? Losing the booster was anticipated. I also expect them to lose the next two or three boosters before successfully landing one.

[@broderwow]

I just hope that they will use New Glen to build their constalation because you can see huge difference in the signal quality between BO and SpaceX :)

[@idris4587]

Haha yes, amazing launch but i think we're all a bit spoiled from starlink now

[@BigDBran]

Yeah launch was lame. Hardly any on board footage. Starlink and SpaceX for the win.

[@ismailnyeyusof3520]

Blue Origin had a big success with achieving orbit on the first launch but it appears that booster re-landing wasn’t successful. I hope we don’t find out later that the landing barge sank after the booster punched a hole through it.

[@thejoker7902]

When is the Nextt Test!?

[@yaxleader]

Soon, I mean, the hardware behind the announcers was the second booster in construction. Likely a few months

[@AttitudeAdjusterAA]

great launch but did it land successfuly

[@gracialonignasiver6302]

Crazy. After all of these years of making fun of Blue Origin, just like that, they leaped frogged Spacex in launch capability with New Glenn. At least until Starship becomes fully operational.

[@brettmciver432]

They didn't leap frog SpaceX at all , SpaceX is still testing different components aka the hear shield and other components (the new pezz dispenser for the starlink satellites)and they have had a booster catch and they have been landing falcon 9s on barges for how long now??

[@gracialonignasiver6302]

@@brettmciver432 I'm focusing more on the fact that Blue Origin now has a rocket that can get multiple times the amount of payload into orbit as Falcon 9 for nearly the same price. Landing the booster, which Blue Origin will most likely figure out over their next few launches, is irrelevant to potential customers as long as the 2nd stage is guaranteed to make it to orbit. The appeal will be the larger cargo bay. As of right now, New Glenn is the largest active rocket on the market. As long as the 2nd stage continues to make it to orbit, Blue Origin can literally start accepting customers while working out the kinks of landing the booster. I call that leap frogging Spacex.

[@brettmciver432]

@gracialonignasiver6302 Nope, I call that getting one rocket part to orbit . What happens if in the next SpaceX flight they hit all of their goals? And flight 8 they launch starlink satellites too? Which is something I heard Elon say about Ss8s launch. These are different approaches, yes leapfrogging no.

[@BigDBran]

@@gracialonignasiver6302if they can’t land the booster, price per launch goes way up. Small accomplishment from Blue Origin. Turn your brain on.

[@tomgizemil]

​@@gracialonignasiver6302Sorry but no: one successful launch is not leapfrogging anyone. To begin with they do not have the capacity to launch 150 times a year. They cannot build enough rockets. And they cannot even think of competing on cost until they manage to reuse their first stage a few (let alone 25+) times. To make it even worse, SpaceX is reportedly very frugal and BO has a far more traditional approach, especially on costs. It is all quite well documented. We'll see how it pans out for BO. I wish them the very best because competition is good, but let's not get ahead of ourselves

[@kpbendeguz]

Is droneship landing confirmed?

[@MikaelLevoniemi]

Miles and feet? Ohh boy, here we go again.

[@axelvetter]

They make America great again.

[@LillyRocket]

@@axelvetter thats what the sheep say on the way to the butcher 😂

[@billstrozberg3932]

Congrats to all of BO! Landing on firat try is still not a reality but so is life hahaha. I got sad though how bad the video and the telemetry quality was. I hope they improvenit with time for us to be able to see more

[@bitcores]

Clearly they need Starlink on their rockets (until the Amazon network comes online).

[@rgrafic]

Nuevo glande!

[@worawatli8952]

Blue Origin is like that quiet kid at the back of the class that might not be friendly and not social-able or even came across as cringe and everyone always see them as a clown, but then one day they shown up with most amazing project and everyone is baffled.

[@thisguysgaming7246]

Sci fi age is here boys. We got a space race with new Glenn and star ship can’t wait to see them flight ton more times

[@craighoenderop5964]

We have been to the Moon 50 years ago?

[@AZOffRoadster]

Most likely: Booster turbines sucked gas bubbles upon reentry burn? First time doing a flip & burn maneuver, after all. No video available. Less likely: RCS thruster/thrust vector failure, wrong orientation, button pressed. Looking forward to the video.

[@yumenokoyume]

I guess welcome to the club for Jeff B.

[@Rex-l2t]

Blue Origin is a true American rocket company. How can you tell, use imperial units like feet and mph.

[@LillyRocket]

Go tell NASA, you clown 😅

[@1701Larry]

OK--------. Dito on the slow lift off... Compared to SpaceX... Superheavy... The Starship Tail also looked a lot longer... not expected with the much narrower and shorter New Glenn with only 7 engines... But still, Starship/s diamond Shock-Tail looked much longer with more shock-demands,,, probably from the higher pressure thrust efficiency of the Raptor engines...!!!

[@LoanwordEggcorn]

Missed it live. But fool me once......

[@dennismena4488]

They need starlink

[@1701Larry]

OK---------. They lost telemetry to the Booster at 8 minutes and was still saying they had telemetry from the booster at 10 minutes (after the booster was supposed to land on the Barge... So when did they start lying to us...AS little as Besos has been informative over the years it is no surprise for lying for so long after they lost the Booste... Probably blew up at tele-loss...!!!! But then I did not expect the Booster to make a landing on the Barge. I did expect them to make it down through Max Aerodynamics and Heat stress. But it looks like it did not last that long... which makes it worse... At least SpaceX did not expect its first Super Heavy Booster to make it back the first launch... But that is why Musk wanted to do some rapid test flights to Iron out the Bugs... Besos is just finding out about on what was expected to be a perfect flight after 20 years of pushing slide rules instead of testing... Bet those huge bottom fins are more destabilizing than helpful...!!! -------. Also, The times between booster shut down, separation and then second stage light off, totaled almost half a minute... How much Orbital weight did that cost New Glen...??? ---------. Hopefully, they will get the landing next time but I won't hold my breath...!!! 😉

[@ETgoHome91]

SpaceX for life 🖖🏼

[@robertanderson5092]

Sucks about that landing As we learned from SpaceX, any deviation from even secondary objectives requires long review from the FAA.

[@Brainstormer_Industires]

Superheavy is already a methalox booster. And SpaceX has already recovered/landed/caught one. New Glenn uses hydrolox upper stage, which has been done many times before. A cool milestone for Blue Origin the BE4, and those involved, but nothing really new for spaceflight. How many orbits are they making on this first flight?

[@captainwolf5922]

I think they said 6 hours, so it would probably be about 12 orbits

[@yaxleader]

They are going into Middle Earth Orbit (MEO). It is something new to spaceflight as Starship hasn't fully orbited the Earth yet, New Glenn's second stage will. New Glenn is officially the first U.S methalox rocket to achieve orbit and will have the furthest orbit of any methalox rocket yet. Also, I believe Blue Origin is now the first private company to achieve orbit on their first attempt with an orbital class vehicle.

[@edopiri]

so Blue Origin is now on par with Falcon Heavy. Launched 6 februari 2018. So what is new here?

[@BillKermanKSP]

Goal for New Glenn is to have 1st stage be reusable, only 2/3 of FH 1st stage is reusable...

[@americancolor2]

Launch coverage by Blue was absolute crap. Probably as bad as Ariane lauch coverage. Sad.

[@peterpalumbo1963]

You talk about carbon emissions, I am concern with the heat and the effect it has on the oxygen supply of the planet.

[@jamesengland7461]

Effect? Immeasurably infinitesimal.

[@andreasdill4329]

Most exhaust is just water when burning methane.

[@Stetsonhatman]

Not as intriguing as a SpaceX launch due to the lack of video but I'm glad is mostly worked since we paid a lot of tax dollars for this.

[@minnguyen4872]

23 years 😅 dam ..starship have multi launches already ..

[@Martinmack333]

and yet BO is first to orbit...which is what matters.

[@TheKlukis123]

How is it possible that spacex struggles so much with FAA, cannot do orbital flights despite completing multiple tests. And blue origin coming from nowhere, first flight, and it's orbital.....

[@sdfried4877]

Expect that to change in about 4 days.

[@Zoomer30_]

Because Elon is a blow hard

[@captainwolf5922]

@@sdfried4877the Starship is much more technically ambitious. If they only wanted to reuse the first stage the Starship would likely have completed orbital flights by now, but since they are trying to recover the 2nd stage too it’s taking longer

[@michaelweaver4439]

Blue origin did not come from nowhere- they have been working on this since before space x was a twinkle in Elon’s eye. This has been the slowest burn EVA A true case of tortoise and the hare

[@Kamakazii]

Well dont forget that SpaceX havent tried to make orbit yet. SpaceX knows orbital flight in and out, but what they dont have data on is reentry. All 6 IFTs have been focused on the hardest parts of the flight, reuseability. New Glenns main objective was to make orbit, and their secondary was to land (which they obviously havent figured out yet). Starship is a whole different beast, and its main objective is to be fully reuseable. Getting that ship back from near orbital speeds and landing while still having good payload capacity is an insane feat of engineering.

[@shitori_1410]

We are too spoiled by spacex that the other rocket launch looks so booring... XD...Congrats to B.O

[@ivantanev6059]

Wait a minute - did they attempt landing the booster at all. It looked like it was planned to lose it. How is this even close to reusable. It was just a normal rocket build for 8 years and achieving LEO for 45 tonnes with no reusability while Falcon heavy delivers 57 tonnes with booster reusability from years. Not hyped for Besos' space future I wanted to see at least a landing attempt.

[@mrvan5347]

Pinky tail

[@davis.fourohfour]

23 years.

[@jelmerbeats44]

I was here!

[@swastikthegroot]

brrrr rocket goes

[@Tristanrgreene11]

Ok….. we getting trolled hard or what?

[@jase4270]

Calm down you idiots its only a rocket lauch that happens almost daily WOW.

[@jamesengland7461]

Yet you were here to watch it?

They didn't get it to the sea drone..dissapointing performance 😐

[@jamesengland7461]

They weren't trying to entertain you.

[@mbj__]

Cool launch shots, but then only animation... 😒

[@alexpaultrailrunner]

This is boring

[@swastikthegroot]

hamborgor

[@sofocle80]

MPH for speed and FT for height? Are you seryous, aren't Blue Origin promoting science? Go metric allready USA, you are way behind the world.

[@XenZenSen]

No u

[@jamesengland7461]

USA utterly dominates the space industry, and you think because of measuring units we're way behind the world? Listen to yourself. You've utterly refuted yourself with this silliness.

[@M102]

L Alexei Fedotov 🤮