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Blue Origin rocket, owned by Jeff Bezos, explodes during test in Florida | Blue Origin
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I'm in Central Florida, and last night's news had a guy on who is deeply plugged in, and he was saying that it is "hard to overestimate" the damage this does to the timetable, which included a big combination of forces between Blue Horizon, Space X, and NASA. This was BH's giant rocket, the biggest in history, and the entire plan revolved around this rocket, and it just had as catastrophic a failure as is possible. It will be months before it's ready again, maybe longer.
I grew up watching rocket launches since the 60s, and it was always many months between launches, with only one or two a year. They've gotten used to firing off multiple rockets a week, and forgot how volatile they are. The current mission was already an ambitious launch schedule, with every single launch coming off perfectly, which is never a guarantee. Now it's back to the drawing board, and since they had such a tight unforgiving schedule, this pushes back every other deadline, acrossultiple companies, for years into the future.
The expert also mentioned that the Chinese, who are scheduled to land on the Lunar South Pole before we do, has a simple, elegant plan to get to the moon, while we have a very complicated plan, with multiple companies, and lots of moving parts.
We're losing the 21st Century Space Race to China. We're losing everything to China.
Never mind the damage it did to the launch pad.
And there is concern about possible damage to the other rocket in the FAB
That launch pad damage is going to be a massive setback for them. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is down for a year plus. That was their only New Glenn launchpad so it’s not like they have other options. So we are really down to a SpaceX Starship for Artemis 3 if they can get remotely close to being ready at some point. Yesterday I would have told you that Blue Origin was our only hope at staying close to the new timelines. At this point, I will be shocked if we land on the moon before 2032 at the absolute earliest.
New Glenn is large-ish, but it is not the biggest rocket in history. Starship is much bigger, for example.