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Posted by enraged_camel 17 hours ago

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test(twitter.com)
https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/20601649284728548...

https://xcancel.com/nasaspaceflight/status/20601649284728548...

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2060174287563116696...

https://xcancel.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2060174287563116696...

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/blue-origins-new-glenn...

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lorenzohess 15 hours ago|
https://xcancel.com/nasaspaceflight/status/20601649284728548...
boredatoms 16 hours ago||
Thats a very impressive bang
ceejayoz 17 hours ago||
Yikes. That's a big bang.
javiramos 5 hours ago||
Space launch is hard
HardCodedBias 14 hours ago||
There are massive machines filled with reactants under high pressure and cryogenic temperatures.

It is amazing that this doesn't happen more often.

anonymars 14 hours ago|
I won't forget that a bold trio went out to the pad during the Artemis I countdown to tighten some bolts for the launch: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis-red-crew-team-h...
a1371 14 hours ago||
It looks like the explosion starts from the second stage
hathym 14 hours ago|
Air balloon
eggplantemoji69 3 hours ago||
Roman Roy looking at phone meme but Bezos face instead
mahirsaid 13 hours ago||
excessive fuel delivery failure probable IMO. The direction and source of explosion seemed localized at first.
RivieraKid 11 hours ago|
Blue Origin's tortoise slow-and-steady approach to development ia increasingly looking stupid.
Aboutplants 6 hours ago|
There does seem to be a certain amount of failure that is necessary to be able to get it right. One would expect that number to decrease over time with each new rocket company but I don’t believe it decreases as much as each company would like to believe.

Move fast and blow things up early rather than slowly. The minimum number of explosions must be met!

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