New Glenn successful launch and landing
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I’ve gotta say, the pop star style cheering and manic reactions is something I just don’t get 
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Great that it all looks successful though.
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Nice!
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it’s been a 25 year effort for blue origin to achieve this. Bezos started the company in September 2000.
It must be a very amazing thing to be involved with and seeing success would be so satisfying after all those years.
Also it’s rockets fricken landing.
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I reckon it’s like the (whatever the Clippers Stadium is called in the NBA) where they have the tech to track who’s cheering appropriately, and either award them discounts or ban them from being part of “the wall”. You’d better be cheering, or you won’t be invited back
It’s fair to say I’ve never seen that sort of reaction to an Aerospace Eng’s work from actual real people.
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Not good for v3 booster overnight.
Another COPV issue? They might need to start manufacturing them if so.
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Looks like it’s peeled open on the seam of the autogenous pressure lines to the top tanks? Might be coincidence.
But this is why you test heavily, stage by stage. It’s bad, but it’s not fully fueled bad…
Educated spec saying a COPV again. We will see. Curious to see how they bring it down.
At least it wasn’t a static fire test. 5 months after S36 blew up they still haven’t repaired the Masseys damage. About a month to go.
Can’t see a launch before March now which will really push the unofficial mid 2028 Artemis 3 timeline.
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Russia related, but not the war.
Apparently the last launch had such a catastrophic failure that it is out of action (for a considerable long time). Why is this important?
First time since 1961 that the Russians havent been able to send man into space.
Which launch are you referring to?
Soyuz MS-28 was a success.
After it took off
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just finished reading The Martian. I realise it’s fiction, but you’d be forgiven for believing it’s a first hand account of the activities undertaken by someone left behind on Mars and the efforts to retrieve them. The attention to detail is incredible. Totally recommend it if anyone interested in space is looking for something to read!
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It won’t take them 9 years to repair. Time the US had no means to get to the ISS post shuttle.
Lucky we have crew dragon.
First test launch of LandSpace’s ZQ-3 rocket 3pm today, with a dummy payload. The rocket’s 1st stage will attempt to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
Will they join SpaceX and Blue?
Similar capabilities to falcons 9 but made of stainless steel and uses metholox instead of kerolox.
If anyone finds a stream link please share.
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No official coverage.
Nice takeoff.
https://x.com/raz_liu/status/1996068650827350168?s=46
Hit the ground hard. Failure on relight.
https://x.com/raz_liu/status/1996069908166463602?s=46
Upper stage made it to orbit deploying its dummy payload successfully.
Landing close.
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