@@nashtrucker Because it's hydrogen and oxygen and doesn't create soot and greenhouse gases like older SpaceX technology. This is how the world should have been doing it all along.
Well done, get stuff in space. Would have wanted a cubesat dispencer under the blue-payload personally 🙂 Hopefully some physical cotf drawings going up on the 1st stage later as well.
Congrats!! That’s a mega accomplishment!! You should all be very proud of your efforts!! Wow, orbit on first try!! That’s completely unprecedented going back decades!! 🙌🏼🕊️
Wow... finally. I was so hoping for that... the first successful launch of a New Glenn rocket. And what a beautiful launch that was! Must have been incredible to watch it in person, seeing that shining blue ignite the night sky and illuminate the clouds beneath. Congratulations to the entire team, you made it! May we see lots of successful launches from now on! Thanks for the great coverage! Cheers! :)
Yes, not a small or medium but a heavy rocket, 2-stage, methane and hydrogen to orbit, first shot. Quite impressive. Congratulations deserved! Good work! I’m a SpaceX fan, but not against BO. Now let’s get going to the Moon and Mars!
@@Andrew-13579 well said this ridiculous taking sides is boring and childish. The more competition the better and any single way of doing things not necessarily the only way to success.
@stuartwillardscreenworx4035 25 years for a first orbit is NOT competition. Neither is it "taking sides" to compare two companues in the same industry - this is called 'comparisons' and is a completely legitimate exercise.
@@BobTaile SpaceX put their first orbit with a small lift booster and then went to a medium lift booster. SpaceX took 4 attempts to get that first orbit with Falcon 1. Blue Origin launched a straight up-n-down suborbital rocket first. Then they went to a heavy lift rocket and put it into orbit on their first attempt. Blue Origin development is very slow, but makes good equipment in the end.
For a first launch, this appears to be a SPECTACULAR success. Congratulations to Blue Origin and all the NG team. Now the hard work of ironing out the anomalies in preparation for the next test launch and the all important landing.
i was here congrats again Blueorigin so amazing it looked starightup like a flashlight even from here where I live I could see it NSF mad love as always yall knocked it out the park
Man we get spoiled by SpaceX for those 1000 angle HD live streams with no lag and perfect timelines, forgot to mention the commentary too. SpaceX is connected with their fans, no other rocket company is
I agree but the early SpaceX streams weren't great either and it took them a good few attempts to nail the landing. People should aspire to SpaceX levels of perfection but they should also be allowed a bit of time to get there for fairness.
@@Nuke-MarsX Even before Starlink we started getting some incredible SpaceX Falcon 9 streams I think, but you're right Starlink has made them next level with Starship. Blue will get there I hope because yeah we didn't see much unfortunately.
I literally couldn’t tell if this was a successful launch or not, because the camera angles and coverage of the launch was pretty null, not NSF’s fault it’s just not there yet for the spectators
Been watching this launch and reading the comments. We've become so bias in favor of SpaceX. If our nation is to get back to the moon or eventually Mars, these two companies are going to have to work together at some point. Trashing one or the other does us no good.
Blue Origin finally got a rocket into orbit. It's great that they were successful in that, which in a pre-SpaceX world would already be mission accomplished.. Wish they were more open with their failure to land though, instead of PR'ing it like they're afraid to tell us. The best thing about SpaceX is that they are not afraid to fail, and bring us all along showing us everything, even when boosters fail to land. But anyway, until Starship 7 this is the best Space news to date. Slow off the pad, but remember Starship Flight1 was extremely slow as well. It still got into orbit so slow acceleration wasn't a problem. We've really been spoiled with SpaceX coverage of their launches and forget that others don't have the same access to stream launches as they do.
"Finally?" That was their very first attempt at an orbital flight and they nailed it. Stop with all this horse**it about "SpaceX not afraid to fail." The only edge SpaceX had was Musk's ability to secure large financial contributions from investors early on. The large initial funding allowed SpaceX to get a working vehicle out quickly before competitors, effectively snatching up a huge section of the market and securing many contracts that bound customers to SpaceX for years to come. Deploying Starlink was another huge step for SpaceX because it immediately started generating billions of dollars of annual revenue for itself on top of its launch services. All of the other upstarts - including Blue Origin - face an enormous uphill battle of trying to grow and establish themselves in an industry that is devoid of big investors and profitable contracts. With each launch of a Falcon, SpaceX's operating costs decrease, making it harder and harder for other companies to be competitive. Blue Origin, Rocket Labs, and any other company not SpaceX are currently in this for the long game and will see years and years of borderline bankruptcy before they can reach positions of being profitable players. Look at the market domination by Ford and Boeing in their respective industries. It took decades before other companies were able to compete against them.
@ Look at how much NASA paid SpaceX, and how much NASA paid Blue Origin, and then complain about SpaceX getting more funding😒 SpaceX usually gets paid a lot less than competitors for any NASA contracts. Why are you anti-SpaceX anyway? They’re both US companies and if it weren’t for SpaceX, NASA would still be begging the Russians to send Astronauts to the ISS.
4:38:00. That’s an amazing view. Spotlight effect! Never saw anything like that before. Did they engineer that? 😂. Sort of like the projected Batman signal. The Blue Origin signal. 😀
This! They'll likely take several attempts before successfully landing one....and their production rate needs to massively increase or they're not going to come close to being competitive.
@@michaelchez6638 I think it may only be like 4 months. The BO spokeswoman said the next one was practically right over her shoulder in the big building. Although, taking a quarter century to get to orbit is quite long, I agree.
What I loved *nearly* as much as actually finally seeing this beast fly...was all the oh-so-professional screeching from just about everyone presenting or standing nearby. 🙄 Obviously, if any of them actually worked on it, I retract that statement, be proud of your work. If not, calm down, stop spoiling the broadcast.
we all a bit spoiled by starship but its nice to see we have competition coming up, its very important to have competition so this should keep spacex on their toes and keep progress moving forwards
Keep in mind so was starship at the start, they will improve on it just like they have with starship, and to be fair, this did better than starship on its maiden flight.
Interesting too see how it develops all engines seemed nominal with a very slow ascent, starship lost a few engines on the first flight ascent, but I guess they know what there doing better than me 😂
BE-4 engine's first flight test was on 8 January 2024 on the Vulcan Centaur rocket. It should be up to specs now. The 45 metric tons to LEO will crawl from the pad...
I'm team SpaceX, but man people do really forget that they also failed landing the first three boosters of Falcon rocket. Blue Glenn made it in orbit first try.
True, but SpaceX was much faster to launch. Blue Origin took its sweet time getting to launch, which raised hopes that it was much better prepared for landing. I'm not a SpaceX apologist, but I think this launch shows that there's no substitute for real-life experience; thus sort of validating SpaceX's approach.
With all the rocket practice they had with Sheppard they better have gotten this first try lol. Incredible. Loosing the first booster is a right of passage at this point. lol.
@@kentslocum at what cost? and how many reiterations? your comment has no validity, they are just different approaches. at the end MAYBE x has a better product.
You do know these rocket launches aren't happening for entertainment purposes right? Excepting a aerospace company to be worried if their launches have Hollywood level commentary and visuals is just weird. They accomplished their goals with launch and that's all should matter.
@@bookrealms4547to add to the joke, when the Apollo program put men on the moon, the whole program used metric but then translated everything to imperial for the televised broadcasts.
Dumb American won't use metric says the guy who won't use imperial. When you build rockets use whatever you like. Until then stop being a disrespectful smartass
Encouraging, but when are they going to be able to retest. Didn't come close to booster landing. Still they have demonstrated that they know what they are doing.
2:51:40 I might be mistaken, but I watched all the countdown to launch streams AND the scrubbed lauch try. I'm pretty sure Jack is the ONLY NSFer who had this confidence on the landing. Even EJ was like "Ehh, about that..." 3:33:00 What's with you guys? Before starship flight 5 it was like "There NO way they're reflying this thing" and now with BONG "Yeah, they're probably reflying it"? What changed? Isn't the process of learning material limits the same?
Came back to see your coverage of the launch - Good stuff!! However I could not believe the mount of staff cross talking and over talking of the Glenn announcements - it was frustrating! I get the excitement but this was about the Glenn team not the NSF team. C'mon guys when the launch is active lets meter the cross talking...APPRECIATE YOU NSF Team!!! Congrats Glenn Team!!!!!
We're accustomed to seeing all kinds of video from SpaceX. This was a bit frustrating, but not @NSF fault. Reporting was good, was definitely an exciting launch! Too bad about the booster. Assume it was lost after the entry burn sometime. Telemetry data stopped, so it landed somewhere, at some speed most likely, or perhaps in pieces?
Tough times in the space industry. Gone are the times when getting a massive upper stage into orbit on the first try got you any laurels. But then only reusability brings you commercially anywhere near SpaceX. this opens the window for paid flights so it won’t be Jeff’s coffers alone anymore. Great news after such a long time in the making
@ yes and no. The Saturn V was a no matter the cost national project. Back then that meant a better chance of success (today nothing would ever lift off 😂). New Glen is a privately funded production system designed for reusability. If they really fail to ever land that first stage, then you are right
Great job Blue Origin and amazing job NSF Team in bringing to us! New Glenn is an engineer's rocket designed and built to perfection! StarShip is an entrepreneur's, designed and built as quick as possible making guesses and compromises every step of the way. Two spacecraft whose only commonality is they both go into space!
StarShip, like Falcon, is an Agile approach used by the overarching project managers with a team comprised of engineers, technicians, QA, Safety and everyone else. Agile is the new and currently accepted PM methodology for a reason. It works!
looked like they enhanced the "blue" with a filter because even the clouds close to us and the rocket in the distance were blue. Great idea to promote it but it was overly blue. Either way, it was cool looking.
I'm not sure what market this is serving. More payload to LEO than Falcon 9 but less than Falcon Heavy, significantly less than StarShip. Flys a few times a year vs over a hundred for Falcon 9. Gradatim Ferociter may be good for things that only happen a few times but not if you need a healthy launch cadence. Kudos to Blue Origin in their attempt to copy SpaceX and congratulations on making orbit. Competition is good, just not sure how competitive this is. 24 years from founding of the company to first successful orbital launch. Blue Origin needs to step up the pace.
Great! How soon until the next launch - a year? SpaceX has a factory built for turning out rockets. BO builds them like one off guitars - slow and one at a time.
That’s what I’m thinking, it’s absolutely great that the rocket was able to successfully reach orbit, but SpaceX is churning out new rockets and boosters left and right, my concern is that now if blue origin takes a while to build a new rocket, and that landing is unsuccessful too, they’ll just be massively behind without alot of data to show for it.
They underplayed the booster loss big time. Its the reusability of the first stage that underpins cost controls. Without this investors will be hesitant.
🙄 SpaceX put the first rocket Falcon 1, into orbit on Sep 28th 2008. The Falcon 9 first went to orbit on Jun 4th 2010. The first Falcon 9 booster landing was Dec 22nd 2015. The first booster reuse was Mar 30th 2017. Even the super fast SpaceX development took time. Blue Origin famously has a very slow development cycle. But they made good equipment eventually. Edit: corrected typo dates. Jun 4th & Dec 22nd.
@@steveaustin2686 Your dates are off, but your point is right. Too many people forget this. Of SpaceX's first 4 launches of Falcon 1, only one was a success (the 4th one). SpaceX only had a successful controlled descent into the ocean on their 9th launch of Falcon 9, their first successful landing on land on their 20th launch, and their first successful landing on a drone ship on their 23rd launch. It took them years to get the landing down right.
@ The first successful Falcon 1 launch was on Sep 28th, 2008. The Falcon 9 first launch was Jun 4th 2010, so excuse my 6 day faux pa. The first booster landing was Dec 22nd, 2015, so that was a typo.
@ People also forget that SpaceX wasn't always a twice a week launch company as well. When SpaceX got the Commercial Crew program contract in Sep 2014 to develop and fly Crew Dragon to the ISS, they only had 12 launches under their belt. SpaceX was seen as the new upstart, because they were new then. SpaceX has grown into the top spaceflight provider in the world right now.
Why was it launching slower a good thing? If it was slower and had lower power to weight, does that not waste more fuel and should they not have made engines that were more powerful and efficient. Maybe I am wrong about that?
The thing is that we have been able to put a rocket into low earth orbit for decades. Since the 1960's. Nowadays, just look at all of the Falcon 9 rockets SpaceX sends to low earth orbit in just one month (6). The whole point is to have a reusable rocket.
Blue burn was beautiful living up to name BlueOrigin.
look at that blue flame, wow the clouds are blue. blue, blue, blue it's so blue. someone got the talking points from Bezos
there are product to put in your fireplace that will alter the color of the flames.
@@nashtrucker Because it's hydrogen and oxygen and doesn't create soot and greenhouse gases like older SpaceX technology. This is how the world should have been doing it all along.
Yes. it was nice. Much better than .... Even not that powerfull.
Thanks!
Thank you NSF. Us Blue Engineers appreciate your coverage and rocket nerd love.
Well done, get stuff in space.
Would have wanted a cubesat dispencer under the blue-payload personally 🙂
Hopefully some physical cotf drawings going up on the 1st stage later as well.
Congratulations Blue Engineer! I like your approach to that of SpaceX. You are a class act!
Congrats!! That’s a mega accomplishment!! You should all be very proud of your efforts!! Wow, orbit on first try!! That’s completely unprecedented going back decades!! 🙌🏼🕊️
Well done Luke! Would love to know what happened to S1 - the more open you are, the more support you’ll get. ❤
Happy for you guys to finally see your hard work in action. Orbit is awesome, booster is just a matter of time. On to flight 2!
Wow...
finally. I was so hoping for that... the first successful launch of a New Glenn rocket. And what a beautiful launch that was! Must have been incredible to watch it in person, seeing that shining blue ignite the night sky and illuminate the clouds beneath. Congratulations to the entire team, you made it! May we see lots of successful launches from now on! Thanks for the great coverage! Cheers! :)
Its a great start to be fair! Well done Blue Origin.
At last...like Adrian emotional after launch...worth the very long wait; Thx NSF
Orbit on the first attempt, congratulations Blue!
Yes, not a small or medium but a heavy rocket, 2-stage, methane and hydrogen to orbit, first shot. Quite impressive. Congratulations deserved! Good work! I’m a SpaceX fan, but not against BO. Now let’s get going to the Moon and Mars!
@Andrew-13579 New Glenn is planned to launch the Blue Moon lander for Artemis V in 2030 or so.
@@Andrew-13579 well said this ridiculous taking sides is boring and childish. The more competition the better and any single way of doing things not necessarily the only way to success.
@stuartwillardscreenworx4035
25 years for a first orbit is NOT competition. Neither is it "taking sides" to compare two companues in the same industry - this is called 'comparisons' and is a completely legitimate exercise.
@@BobTaile SpaceX put their first orbit with a small lift booster and then went to a medium lift booster. SpaceX took 4 attempts to get that first orbit with Falcon 1.
Blue Origin launched a straight up-n-down suborbital rocket first. Then they went to a heavy lift rocket and put it into orbit on their first attempt. Blue Origin development is very slow, but makes good equipment in the end.
Been waiting for this! Beautiful flight! Congrats Blue Orgin!
Using miles instead of the metric system for space flight is wild
Frfr
It’s America. Their choice. Not everyone has to abide to someone’s culture
@Dexterlexious even in America they use the metric system everywhere in science especially rocket science
@@Dexterlexious tell me you haven't studied physics or engineering without actually telling it
It's Amazon. It's about what you'd expect from a joke company.
Congratulations on a succesful launch and orbit! Better luck on the next attempt at landing!
For a first launch, this appears to be a SPECTACULAR success. Congratulations to Blue Origin and all the NG team. Now the hard work of ironing out the anomalies in preparation for the next test launch and the all important landing.
Spectacular would be sticking the landing, A cake with no icing. Maybe next time in 5 years when they try again
That was a nice blue flame. Glad i got to see it up close
THAT FIRST STAGE PLUME IS GORGEOUS
i was here congrats again Blueorigin so amazing it looked starightup like a flashlight even from here where I live I could see it NSF mad love as always yall knocked it out the park
Gushing over something that is years overdue.
The did go orbital on their first try. Congrats.
Amazing job on this one, folks. Really spectacular views; especially the cloud layer transition. Wow!
Man we get spoiled by SpaceX for those 1000 angle HD live streams with no lag and perfect timelines, forgot to mention the commentary too. SpaceX is connected with their fans, no other rocket company is
I agree but the early SpaceX streams weren't great either and it took them a good few attempts to nail the landing. People should aspire to SpaceX levels of perfection but they should also be allowed a bit of time to get there for fairness.
@@Overpet I'm just saying I couldn't enjoy this launch at all because I had literally nothing to look at, they just don't have starlink
@@Nuke-MarsX Even before Starlink we started getting some incredible SpaceX Falcon 9 streams I think, but you're right Starlink has made them next level with Starship. Blue will get there I hope because yeah we didn't see much unfortunately.
I literally couldn’t tell if this was a successful launch or not, because the camera angles and coverage of the launch was pretty null, not NSF’s fault it’s just not there yet for the spectators
@@Overpet Blue origin is older than Spacex lol
Awesome launch thanks for the great commentary!!!
Congrats on Blue Orings launch too bad the landing failed booster went BOOM during the landing. Congrats on reaching Orbit
Been watching this launch and reading the comments. We've become so bias in favor of SpaceX. If our nation is to get back to the moon or eventually Mars, these two companies are going to have to work together at some point. Trashing one or the other does us no good.
3:59:38 - 1 minute til launch, crowd getting hyped
4:00:28 - 10 seconds til ignition and launch
4:38:48 - Hyperlapse of launch
Thank you so much.
Congratulations Blue Origin! Keep up the great work!
What a beautiful rocket launch.
Next up customer launches.
And a softer landing.
A softer landing...It didn`t land
I thought it went kerplunk into the pond?
Excellent first flight! Hopefully we don't have to wait a year for the next attempt
Blue Origin finally got a rocket into orbit. It's great that they were successful in that, which in a pre-SpaceX world would already be mission accomplished.. Wish they were more open with their failure to land though, instead of PR'ing it like they're afraid to tell us. The best thing about SpaceX is that they are not afraid to fail, and bring us all along showing us everything, even when boosters fail to land. But anyway, until Starship 7 this is the best Space news to date.
Slow off the pad, but remember Starship Flight1 was extremely slow as well. It still got into orbit so slow acceleration wasn't a problem.
We've really been spoiled with SpaceX coverage of their launches and forget that others don't have the same access to stream launches as they do.
"Finally?" That was their very first attempt at an orbital flight and they nailed it.
Stop with all this horse**it about "SpaceX not afraid to fail." The only edge SpaceX had was Musk's ability to secure large financial contributions from investors early on. The large initial funding allowed SpaceX to get a working vehicle out quickly before competitors, effectively snatching up a huge section of the market and securing many contracts that bound customers to SpaceX for years to come. Deploying Starlink was another huge step for SpaceX because it immediately started generating billions of dollars of annual revenue for itself on top of its launch services.
All of the other upstarts - including Blue Origin - face an enormous uphill battle of trying to grow and establish themselves in an industry that is devoid of big investors and profitable contracts. With each launch of a Falcon, SpaceX's operating costs decrease, making it harder and harder for other companies to be competitive. Blue Origin, Rocket Labs, and any other company not SpaceX are currently in this for the long game and will see years and years of borderline bankruptcy before they can reach positions of being profitable players. Look at the market domination by Ford and Boeing in their respective industries. It took decades before other companies were able to compete against them.
@ Look at how much NASA paid SpaceX, and how much NASA paid Blue Origin, and then complain about SpaceX getting more funding😒
SpaceX usually gets paid a lot less than competitors for any NASA contracts.
Why are you anti-SpaceX anyway? They’re both US companies and if it weren’t for SpaceX, NASA would still be begging the Russians to send Astronauts to the ISS.
This one was so loud it actually woke me up. I was watching you guys, but fell asleep. Go go Space Coast 🚀🏄♀️🌴🐬
The official livestream was a pretty good advertisement for Starlink
😂 nailed it in one comment
Yeah, we have been spoilt by SpaceX. Love ya Elon.
I mean BS propaganda media sure. But umm I mean. If they can keep doing this how hard is it duplicate that made up facade?
F'n starship fanboys suck. Elon doesn't own space, get that through your heads
SpaceX doesn't use starlink during launch 🤦
4:38:00. That’s an amazing view. Spotlight effect! Never saw anything like that before. Did they engineer that? 😂. Sort of like the projected Batman signal. The Blue Origin signal. 😀
Yeah like a big flashlight moving away in a foggy environment. Might be a long time before we see an effect like that again
@@robwoodring9437 You can see it in the Starship ship splashdowns, same "blue searchlight" effect, it's very neat.
A good launch, glad they managed it. I can't wait for them to manage their first landing and launch cool stuff into orbit.
Awesome job Blue! That was amazing to see
Congratulations!
I can't wait for the next one in four years.
This! They'll likely take several attempts before successfully landing one....and their production rate needs to massively increase or they're not going to come close to being competitive.
@@michaelchez6638 I think it may only be like 4 months. The BO spokeswoman said the next one was practically right over her shoulder in the big building. Although, taking a quarter century to get to orbit is quite long, I agree.
Didn’t they just say next one would be ready in 2 months or so. It was either in this stream or Everyday Astronaut
I'll bet 5 months and a successful booster landing.
@TheSpeedyLoonyCanoli I was joking haha
CONGRATULATIONS TO BLUE ORIGIN!!!! I am so happy for you guys. I can only imagine how amazing you all must feel. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Congratulations to the team at nasa,, BO and NSF. Thank you all for a great job bringing space home for the rest of us
What I loved *nearly* as much as actually finally seeing this beast fly...was all the oh-so-professional screeching from just about everyone presenting or standing nearby. 🙄 Obviously, if any of them actually worked on it, I retract that statement, be proud of your work. If not, calm down, stop spoiling the broadcast.
Blue Origin is in the game now. Gratzz.
we all a bit spoiled by starship but its nice to see we have competition coming up, its very important to have competition so this should keep spacex on their toes and keep progress moving forwards
Grest job! On first launch!! This is what success looks like
Congratulations to BO for your success. Hopefully many more to come.
Wow that was very slow at the start... And this without heavy Payload... Only some very light payload
Keep in mind so was starship at the start, they will improve on it just like they have with starship, and to be fair, this did better than starship on its maiden flight.
@@rjswasYes, but starship was MUCH more wip (earlier prototype) in first flight in comparison to New Glenn which was supposed to work fine...
Interesting too see how it develops all engines seemed nominal with a very slow ascent, starship lost a few engines on the first flight ascent, but I guess they know what there doing better than me 😂
Glad I wasn't dreaming that.
BE-4 engine's first flight test was on 8 January 2024 on the Vulcan Centaur rocket. It should be up to specs now. The 45 metric tons to LEO will crawl from the pad...
Great content as always 😊
Great commentary and awesome footage and pic's. Thanks NSF team.
Superb work! Great effort from Blue Orgiin
I'm team SpaceX, but man people do really forget that they also failed landing the first three boosters of Falcon rocket. Blue Glenn made it in orbit first try.
True, but SpaceX was much faster to launch. Blue Origin took its sweet time getting to launch, which raised hopes that it was much better prepared for landing. I'm not a SpaceX apologist, but I think this launch shows that there's no substitute for real-life experience; thus sort of validating SpaceX's approach.
@@kentslocum it’s more that SpaceX just works insanely fast compared to anyone else.
With all the rocket practice they had with Sheppard they better have gotten this first try lol.
Incredible. Loosing the first booster is a right of passage at this point. lol.
@@kentslocum at what cost? and how many reiterations? your comment has no validity, they are just different approaches. at the end MAYBE x has a better product.
@@Owencr905 Acutally slower than Apollo.
All that R&D paid off.
Some discipline required during commentary guys, that was bordering on unwatchable at times. Ryan made it tolerable, but thanks anyways.
I agree
Just say the name. Someone was a bit um... yeah well....
Says multiple times 'Let's listen to the official commentary' then proceed to mute it every time they start an update.
You do know these rocket launches aren't happening for entertainment purposes right? Excepting a aerospace company to be worried if their launches have Hollywood level commentary and visuals is just weird. They accomplished their goals with launch and that's all should matter.
"Call me "Maybe"!" -New Glenn. -Mr. Bacon.😂
Awesome! But using mph, ft ? Why not use sun dials for time ?
There are two types of countries: Those who use metric, and those who have put men on the moon. (joke)
@@bookrealms4547those who use metric, and those who have put men on the moon using metric
@@bookrealms4547to add to the joke, when the Apollo program put men on the moon, the whole program used metric but then translated everything to imperial for the televised broadcasts.
Dumb American won't use metric says the guy who won't use imperial. When you build rockets use whatever you like. Until then stop being a disrespectful smartass
Another butthurt foreigner with penis-envy.
I guess I’m spoiled by Spacex’s camera views. This may as well had been done on radio.
Did anyone else see the almost spotlight like effect with the plume?
Does this mean my Amazon packages will arrive faster now?
No, but it might cost more.
The delivery guy will still skip your house in bad weather.
Does anyone know if they already have a second first stage booster available - or it will be a long wait for them to build another one?
Nice! Let the RACE Begin!!!
Encouraging, but when are they going to be able to retest. Didn't come close to booster landing.
Still they have demonstrated that they know what they are doing.
What a great day for Blue Origin and private space flight. The catch will come. Let’s goooo.😊
2:51:40 I might be mistaken, but I watched all the countdown to launch streams AND the scrubbed lauch try. I'm pretty sure Jack is the ONLY NSFer who had this confidence on the landing. Even EJ was like "Ehh, about that..."
3:33:00 What's with you guys? Before starship flight 5 it was like "There NO way they're reflying this thing" and now with BONG "Yeah, they're probably reflying it"? What changed? Isn't the process of learning material limits the same?
they must give the announcer/actor a bonus for acting super excited
Impressive first launch!
Came back to see your coverage of the launch - Good stuff!! However I could not believe the mount of staff cross talking and over talking of the Glenn announcements - it was frustrating! I get the excitement but this was about the Glenn team not the NSF team. C'mon guys when the launch is active lets meter the cross talking...APPRECIATE YOU NSF Team!!! Congrats Glenn Team!!!!!
the first rocket for me to watch live
looked great finally a different craft besides Starship and Falcon getting launched, booster landing is very hard
Cool, welcome to the club.
Congratulations 🎉
We're accustomed to seeing all kinds of video from SpaceX. This was a bit frustrating, but not @NSF fault. Reporting was good, was definitely an exciting launch! Too bad about the booster. Assume it was lost after the entry burn sometime. Telemetry data stopped, so it landed somewhere, at some speed most likely, or perhaps in pieces?
Confusing their data is in Imperial units, right?
And today we have flight 7 from SpaceX. Thats one to watch!
I've been dying to know what New Glenn sounds like!!
Well, guys, I wish I could hear Mission Control talk. Then you guys talk
Congratulation New Glenn. The US now has an additional rocket company.
For a first flight not bad at all! Kind of weird that they weren't giving any updates on stage 1.
That looked very concerning for a while. Very slow lift off. Almost went backwards.
Well done, Blue!
Tough times in the space industry. Gone are the times when getting a massive upper stage into orbit on the first try got you any laurels.
But then only reusability brings you commercially anywhere near SpaceX. this opens the window for paid flights so it won’t be Jeff’s coffers alone anymore. Great news after such a long time in the making
Laurels for what? People did much more impressive rocket launches more than 60 years ago.
@ yes and no. The Saturn V was a no matter the cost national project. Back then that meant a better chance of success (today nothing would ever lift off 😂). New Glen is a privately funded production system designed for reusability. If they really fail to ever land that first stage, then you are right
Great job Blue Origin and amazing job NSF Team in bringing to us!
New Glenn is an engineer's rocket designed and built to perfection!
StarShip is an entrepreneur's, designed and built as quick as possible making guesses and compromises every step of the way. Two spacecraft whose only commonality is they both go into space!
StarShip, like Falcon, is an Agile approach used by the overarching project managers with a team comprised of engineers, technicians, QA, Safety and everyone else. Agile is the new and currently accepted PM methodology for a reason. It works!
Worth the wait
Is it just me or does 12 1/2 minutes to orbit seem oddly slow?
Um well I think that might actually be a good thing.
looked like they enhanced the "blue" with a filter because even the clouds close to us and the rocket in the distance were blue. Great idea to promote it but it was overly blue. Either way, it was cool looking.
That aircraft is owned by NASA, I imagine Blue has no control over what filter is used on that camera
I'm not sure what market this is serving. More payload to LEO than Falcon 9 but less than Falcon Heavy, significantly less than StarShip. Flys a few times a year vs over a hundred for Falcon 9. Gradatim Ferociter may be good for things that only happen a few times but not if you need a healthy launch cadence. Kudos to Blue Origin in their attempt to copy SpaceX and congratulations on making orbit. Competition is good, just not sure how competitive this is. 24 years from founding of the company to first successful orbital launch. Blue Origin needs to step up the pace.
Good job.
Great! How soon until the next launch - a year? SpaceX has a factory built for turning out rockets. BO builds them like one off guitars - slow and one at a time.
That’s what I’m thinking, it’s absolutely great that the rocket was able to successfully reach orbit, but SpaceX is churning out new rockets and boosters left and right, my concern is that now if blue origin takes a while to build a new rocket, and that landing is unsuccessful too, they’ll just be massively behind without alot of data to show for it.
Blue Origin is essentially a privately funded NASA - stuck in the past. SpaceX is the future.
Did that have a simulated payload weight in it? If not that looks maxed out just getting itself off the ground 🤔
Why did they go straight to Orbit if SpaceX has to be so careful about Starship going to orbit?
I'm assuming their 2nd stage is smaller. Was it their satellite thing? A couple hours later I thought of that
perfect, hopefully next time they will outsource the telemetry and video to space
A zimmer frame of a launch.
move over space X. GREAT JOB! Ever Forward. history is made! Soooo cool!!
MARVELEOUS!
It's about time that thing finally got off the ground.
I’m never taking spacex Starlink views for granted again 😭
Blue will help us reach a point where count downs will be remembered as prehistoric flight rituals, BLUUUUUUUUUUUU ❤
Lovely
Congratulations Blue Origin on reaching orbit on 1st launch. Landing that booster will come in time.
Pretty good starlink advertisement
Tortoise beats the Hare! Amazing!
Someone get that rocket a Starlink Subscription.
good job team.
Did this rocket have a max payload of ballast? It lifted off at a ridiculously slow pace
If Space X wanted to but a Starship into orbit they could have.
But Blue Glen couldn't? I think you have a kind of "telling" and quite in-objective coulda, woulda, shoulda, going on there.
Go cry to Elon fanboy
They underplayed the booster loss big time. Its the reusability of the first stage that underpins cost controls. Without this investors will be hesitant.
🙄 SpaceX put the first rocket Falcon 1, into orbit on Sep 28th 2008. The Falcon 9 first went to orbit on Jun 4th 2010. The first Falcon 9 booster landing was Dec 22nd 2015. The first booster reuse was Mar 30th 2017. Even the super fast SpaceX development took time.
Blue Origin famously has a very slow development cycle. But they made good equipment eventually.
Edit: corrected typo dates. Jun 4th & Dec 22nd.
@@steveaustin2686 Your dates are off, but your point is right. Too many people forget this. Of SpaceX's first 4 launches of Falcon 1, only one was a success (the 4th one). SpaceX only had a successful controlled descent into the ocean on their 9th launch of Falcon 9, their first successful landing on land on their 20th launch, and their first successful landing on a drone ship on their 23rd launch. It took them years to get the landing down right.
@ The first successful Falcon 1 launch was on Sep 28th, 2008. The Falcon 9 first launch was Jun 4th 2010, so excuse my 6 day faux pa.
The first booster landing was Dec 22nd, 2015, so that was a typo.
@ People also forget that SpaceX wasn't always a twice a week launch company as well. When SpaceX got the Commercial Crew program contract in Sep 2014 to develop and fly Crew Dragon to the ISS, they only had 12 launches under their belt. SpaceX was seen as the new upstart, because they were new then. SpaceX has grown into the top spaceflight provider in the world right now.
I remember watching launches in the 60s and it appears as though we are no better off. I really don't know what all the fuss is about.
In thrust we trust... god damm.... he have all the reason!!!. 😅
Why was it launching slower a good thing? If it was slower and had lower power to weight, does that not waste more fuel and should they not have made engines that were more powerful and efficient. Maybe I am wrong about that?
The thing is that we have been able to put a rocket into low earth orbit for decades. Since the 1960's. Nowadays, just look at all of the Falcon 9 rockets SpaceX sends to low earth orbit in just one month (6). The whole point is to have a reusable rocket.