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Posted by enraged_camel 19 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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ChrisArchitect 18 hours ago|
NSF live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm8wRjD3xVA
weare138 17 hours ago||
Blew Origin
HerbManic 17 hours ago|
B.O.N.G goes up in smoke.

As an aside, that acronym is something you would expect out of Musk and yet Blue Origin sort of accidentally got it themselves.

protocolture 15 hours ago||
So uh those Artemis commitments huh.
AustinDev 15 hours ago|
There is always Starship.
protocolture 11 hours ago||
Starship already holds the other half of those commitments. I saw some speculation that they couldnt suddenly double their number of Artemis launches. The timelines blasted either way.
lorenzohess 17 hours ago||
Video: https://xcancel.com/nasaspaceflight/status/20601649284728548...

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

jdnier 16 hours ago||
That "Another angle" truly is spectacular.
thrdbndndn 13 hours ago||
In the video, some debris seemed to fly away from the explosion in a wavy path (top left). I thought things only moved like that in video games. What causes that kind of movement?
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cboyardee 17 hours ago||
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SilverElfin 19 hours ago||
Shame. I would love to see a competitor rein in SpaceX.
pylotlight 18 hours ago||
> rein in? You don't like going to space? What do you have against progress?
kortilla 17 hours ago|||
Rein in their margins is probably a better term. I’m a spacex fan but I’m reminded of what happens to every darling leader that crushes competition. It gets complacent, uses shitty tricks to cut out competitors, and raises prices.

I saw this at Google and it’s what will happen to SpaceX (already starting with Starlink pricing) if there isn’t someone to keep the competitive pressure on.

SilverElfin 15 hours ago|||
I have a lot against its owner, who has been enabling a corrupt administration and boosting outright supremacists on social media. Not to the corrupt action of the fast track listing and the voting structure of SpaceX. And the fraudulent acquisition of xai and x that is basically taking from SpaceX to pay off other investors
Computer0 19 hours ago|||
SpaceX had to blow up plenty to get to where they are.
Ancapistani 18 hours ago|||
Yeah, but the vast majority of those were planned, and at least most exceeded expectations.

Was this an expected outcome? It doesn’t sound like it, but I’ve not really investigated it deeply.

hgoel 17 hours ago|||
Only their most recent explosions have been planned. Anyone who followed early Starship, and even before then, remembers how much unexpected exploding, bursting and burning it, and previous SpaceX projects, have done to get to their current level of reliability.
Rover222 17 hours ago||||
SpaceX has had several unplanned explosions on the launchpad.
mempko 16 hours ago|||
What are you talking about exceeded expectations? Starship is very far behind schedule.
0xbadcafebee 18 hours ago|||
It looks like SpaceX blew up ~20 times while Blue Origin has blown up ~4
Rover222 17 hours ago||
blowing up on the pad is a whole different level of disaster (which yeah spacex has done a couple times)
thot_experiment 16 hours ago||
I agree with the sentiment, but while New Glenn is likely a more economical rocket, it doesn't even have the same payload capacity that Falcon Heavy had eight years ago. They are nowhere near a meaningful competitor yet, and if Starship actually gets up and running the mass to LEO gap between the two systems is like 5x+ with Starship aiming for full reusability while NG expends the second stage. Ofc even whimpy competition is still competition, and BO does have deep pockets.
7e 18 hours ago||
IPO must be in the works!
Markoff 16 hours ago||
I will remember this when someone tells me how my little fireworks once a year is bad for environment.
russdill 13 hours ago||
Might not be that bad for the environment but holy hell does it turn air quality to shit the next day.
Markoff 13 hours ago||
I am not sure whether you talk about those fireworks for few minutes/hours or these quite common rocket explosions + EV fires...

Personally I don't even own a car, so don't go on me with some carbon emissions and polluting enviroment, 95% of year I use public transport (most of the time electric trams), only 1-2 a year a ride a car when visiting mother/father.

lukeschlather 4 hours ago||
I've never been downwind of a rocket explosion or an EV fire, Fireworks are something that make me annoyed at the air quality degradation quite often.
onionisafruit 16 hours ago|||
sweep up after yourself and we’re good, but if you leave your firework trash out for a week we have problems. You’ll have to watch me passive aggressively clean up after you.
Markoff 13 hours ago||
I always clean up after myself, often even just to be sure water it, I became fan of fireworks just recently after Czech gov basically banned them because "think of the animals", yeah, big cities are natural animal habitat as everyone knows, especially dogs barking and shitting everywhere every single day 365 days a year, but God forbid we have once a year firework, think of the poor dogs.

Now they came up with maps where fireworks are allowed and apparently 90% of Prague is covered with beehives (you can't have firework within like 250m from beehive), it doesn't matter bees don't really care about them at all in freezing 1st January, but let's protect them and ruin fun for everyone!

bamboozled 14 hours ago||
You need to understand that this money is well spent, rather than going to feeding starving children or buying medicine to help solve the Ebola crisis in Africa, this is actually "better for mankind".
Markoff 14 hours ago|||
and wait till you see US national defense budget :-))

imagine if they stopped financing it for one year and used all those finances to finance for instance cancer research

or maybe for starters they could just stop supporting genocidal regimes killing thousands of children, that would be pretty cheap

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brcmthrowaway 16 hours ago||
There's got to be better way than burning a shittonne of fuel. Anyone else know?
gosub100 7 hours ago||
It's a zero sum game. It all comes from the earth
esseph 15 hours ago|||
> There's got to be better way than burning a shittonne of fuel.

We would be doing it

jeffrallen 14 hours ago||
Space elevators!
formvoltron 13 hours ago|
The timing of this so close to SpaceX IPO is seriously sus.
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