New Shepard Mission 9 Webcast

[Anonymous No.9876504]

Blue Origin is doing another in-flight abort test of New Shepard. This time firing the LES near the apogee.

Launching in less than 15 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRDhdHRyyjc

[Anonymous No.9876510]

>inb4 super long hold again

[Anonymous No.9876513]

[Anonymous No.9876518]

aaaaaaaaaand it's on hold

[Anonymous No.9876527]

>rockets just refuse to crash even during destructive testing
>first vertically landed spacefaring rocket
>sending people to space this year

chad bezos just can't lose

[Anonymous No.9876541]

>>9876527

[Anonymous No.9876542]

>>9876527
>uses imperial units
can't win em all

[Anonymous No.9876546]

>>9876504
THE CHAD CHROME DOME VS THE LOSER HAIR TRANSPLANT

[Anonymous No.9876549]

ayyyyy another hold

[Anonymous No.9876552]

t-10!

[Anonymous No.9876571]

Boosted landed, looks a bit wobbly.

[Anonymous No.9876574]

dunno if this would be worth the $200k

[Anonymous No.9876576]

>>9876574
well bezos makes that much in less than a minute

money doesn't have the same value for everyone

[Anonymous No.9876581]

complete success.

It landed pretty close to the booster; isn't there a risk of collision?

[Anonymous No.9876600]

What is the point of New Shepard?

[Anonymous No.9876606]

>>9876600
testing bed for New Glenn. Gives the Blue Origin team a small project to work on until the New Glenn factory is operational; it gives them experience with rockets etc. One step at a time

[Anonymous No.9876613]

>>9876600
To make Elon Musk really, really mad and trigger his downwards spiral of narcissistic rage on twitter

[Anonymous No.9877250]

>>9876504
Is pedo guy after?

[Anonymous No.9877358]

>>9876613
I didn't know Bezos was capable of that level of salt.

[Anonymous No.9877365]

>>9877358
he's been sort of a dick. Blue Origin tried to patent landing a 1st stage on a floating structure (barge, ship). SpaceX had to fight it in court.

[Anonymous No.9877369]

>>9877358
How is that salt?

"Salt" is calling a brave hero a "pedo" on twitter because he told you to shove your publicity stunt up your ass.

[Anonymous No.9877370]

>>9877365
Pretty ridiculous if you ask me.
Has anyone patented landing (anything) on a landing pad?

[Anonymous No.9877377]

>>9877365
SpaceX got pad 39A for free in an obviously shady backdoor political deal and Blue (rightfully) sued them then too, but reddit fags like you like to ignore that fact.

[Anonymous No.9877386]

>>9877377
it was a five-year lease, because Elon said that BO wouldn't even make orbit for at least five years. That was 2013.
HMMMMMM.....

The pad was costing NASA money due to the upkeep. Parts of the deal was that SpaceX had to maintain it.

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's 'reddit'.

[Anonymous No.9877393]

>>9877386
It was a 20 year lease you fucking chimp.

[Anonymous No.9877396]

>>9877393
the terms of the lease which BO challenged originally was the 5-year one. Thus my point.

Go back to bed, bezoz

[Anonymous No.9877399]

>>9877369
>How is that salt?
Welcoming SpaceX to "the club" when he is doing just up-down tests of a non-orbital class booster.
The booster SpaceX landed had just boosted the second stage to put something into orbit, turned around and landed on a landing pad near the launch pad. New Shepard can't do that. If it goes straight up it can reach the Carmen line, that's about it.

[Anonymous No.9877404]

>>9877399
Falcon 9 stage 1 is also a suborbital booster

>>9877396
Do you enjoy just making up garbage like that?
>https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-spacex-sign-property-agreement-for-historic-launch-pad
>During ceremonies on April 14, agency officials announced they signed a property agreement with SpaceX of Hawthorne, Calif., for use and operation of Launch Complex (LC) 39A for the next 20 years.

[Anonymous No.9877406]

>>9877404
they aren't comparable. Also, if F9 S1 had no payload or S2 ontop of it, it could SSTO.

They simple are in different classes. If anything, the Delta Clipper team should be welcoming BO to *their* club

[Anonymous No.9877410]

>>9877406
same sort of pic with more info

[Anonymous No.9877412]

>>9877406
Falcon 9:
>went to space
>suborbital
>launches payload on suborbital trajectory
>landed back on land

New Shepard:
>went to space
>suborbital
>launches payload on suborbital trajectory
>landed back on land

DC-X:
>didn't go to space
>max altitude of 3km
>33% failure rate

[Anonymous No.9877419]

>>9877412
imagining being so dedicated to downplaying SpaceX's achievements that you spend the time to type this out.

you're playing around with words, dude.

[Anonymous No.9877420]

>>9877419
>he says in the BO thread, while trying to downplay BO's achievements
Maybe you should try taking Elon Musk's cock out of your mouth, and maybe then you'd be able to form a coherent argument.

[Anonymous No.9877422]

>>9877377
losing a bid for a launch facility when you have nothing to launch from it is not shady backroom political dealings. nor should BO shills be talking about shadiness when the company has filed more troll patents with prior art established by other companies than it has actual launches

[Anonymous No.9877428]

>>9877422
There was no bid, they got a multi-billion dollar asset for free.

[Anonymous No.9877429]

>>9877420
>because it's a BO thread means that you have free reign to be stupid
wew

New Shepard is a great rocket. It shows that BO will be successful further down the road. More competition is good. But NS ≠ F9 S1

[Anonymous No.9877431]

>>9877429
>I was only pretending to make fun of BO! Really guys!

[Anonymous No.9877432]

>>9877428
ah yes, a multi-billion dollar rusty shuttle-era RSS, which nothing but the shuttle can use, and obsolete GSE.

SpaceX had to SPEND a hundred million on the pad to get it operational, which meant tearing out all of the old equipment.

It was costing NASA hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in upkeep. Shifting it to SpaceX's possession was a smart decision.

[Anonymous No.9877434]

>>9877431
jesus your feelings are actually hurt control yourself
>>9877428
nah they lost a bid and cried about it and now you're crying harder

[Anonymous No.9877435]

>>9877431
When have I made fun of BO? I made fun of the silly F9/NS comparison.

[Anonymous No.9877456]

>>9877404
>Falcon 9 stage 1 is also a suborbital booster
Because it has a heavy second stage and payload on top.

[Anonymous No.9877466]

step aside newfags, the OG SSTO spaceship is here

[Anonymous No.9877594]

>>9877466
Still the most advanced and capable spacecraft we've ever had. Manned by the best pilots to ever live.

Don't forget, Armstrong lifted off and had to orbit the moon at a few thousand miles per hour to dock with Michael Collins. The amount of skill that takes without using a computer and doing it for the first time is mind boggling. One wrong move and they could both be toast.

[Anonymous No.9877626]

>>9877594
wasn't the ascent almost entirely automated, even with Apollo 11? There was a specific roll and throttle program that the ship used.

[Anonymous No.9877654]

Bezos's pep talk sounds exactly like how I thought a nerdy billionaire's pep talk would sound https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1019741670231834624

[Anonymous No.9877677]

>>9877626
Pretty sure it was.
A lot of the stuff was surprisingly automated.

[Anonymous No.9877691]

>>9877654
Bezos was just a mildly autistic nerd who struck rich after borrowing his parents money. Definitely more endearing than Musk, who takes full credit for everything his companies have done and only "thanks NASA" for political reasons

[Anonymous No.9877698]

>>9877691
in actual interviews Elon never used "I" when referring to SpaceX achievements and he constantly praises his engineering teams. He's a tad more endearing than the media sometimes makes him out to be.

[Anonymous No.9877707]

>>9877698
He literally said he designed falcon 1 himself "because I couldn't hire anyone" completely ignoring that he had hundreds of employees by the time it flew successfully.

[Anonymous No.9877713]

>>9877698
oh puh-lease, don't try to make elon out to be the victim of the media

the media has made elon billions by buying his bullshit promises and showering him with undue praise

[Anonymous No.9877714]

>>9877707
>it's another episode of anon can't pick up on social cues that indicate Elon was actually referring to how he was a bad chief engineer thus the early failures

go re-read that particular statement of him more carefully.

[Anonymous No.9877716]

>>9877713
ah yes, fidelity and google care about Elon's media appearance when deciding to invest in SpaceX. Makes sense. The media has probably lost him more money than anything.

[Anonymous No.9877779]

>>9877707
And is that a lie?
Not all employees are designers. You can argue the giuy who designed the engine isn't getting credit he deserves, but a rocket is more than just the engine.
It is clearly a matter of what you're interpreting him meaning when he says he designed the Falcon 1.

[Anonymous No.9877844]

>>9877369
>a brave hero
the guy who didn't get in the cave?

[Anonymous No.9877848]

>>9877396
>the terms of the lease which BO challenged originally was the 5-year one.

>we're gonna make this deal with SpaceX and lease them a pad for 5 years
>Oh what's that Jeff? you're throwing a fit?
>Here SpaceX, extend that lease by another 15

wew

[Anonymous No.9877851]

>>9877420
Yeah this is a BO thread, no real rockets allowed here

[Anonymous No.9877855]

>>9877594
>most advanced and capable spacecraft
It had shit propulsion and maneuvering capability to be honest famalam

[Anonymous No.9877856]

>>9876613
Elon is too autistic to perceive that as a burn. Backhanded compliments go over his head. To make him mad you literally have to say something like "shove your rocket up your ass"

[Anonymous No.9877860]

>>9877691
>endearing
>literally drives menial labor slaves in his warehouses and enforces draconian working conditions

Musk may demand a lot in terms of work ethic but Bezos is a human rights violation

[Anonymous No.9877864]

>>9877860
>people are forced to work at amazon

[Anonymous No.9877865]

>>9877707
>being a lead designer is designing something yourself
>designing something is developing something
>designing something is fabricating and testing something

[Anonymous No.9877867]

>>9877864
>strikes at amazon workplaces around the globe
anon . . .

[Anonymous No.9877870]

>>9877779
>>9877707
>>9877714
Yeah I heard a version of the "I was the chief engineer" speech in person and it's totally self-deprecating, Elon implies they would have gotten Falcon 1 done faster with fewer disasters and wouldn't have almost gone bankrupt if he could have hired an actual rock star engineer instead of doing the desperate half-assed job he did himself.

[Anonymous No.9877879]

>>9877864
>human rights violation
>obviously means promoting slavery
Tribal fucks

[Anonymous No.9878862]

>>9877860
Warehouse drones make shit money.
Who would have thought that job that a monkey could do won't pay well

[Anonymous No.9878866]

>>9876542
Wew lad

[Anonymous No.9878895]

>>9877594
>Don't forget, Armstrong lifted off and had to orbit the moon at a few thousand miles per hour to dock with Michael Collins. The amount of skill that takes without using a computer and doing it for the first time is mind boggling. One wrong move and they could both be toast.

muh, it's actually not that hard. pilots fly more dangerous and more difficult formations at air shows.

[Anonymous No.9878896]

It's basically just a big hobby rocket, dnno why they are even bothering to do these launches

[Anonymous No.9878901]

>>9878896
BO is claiming they can make the booster ready for the next flight within one afternoon and a few grand in expenditures. If this is true they are way ahead of SpaceX in terms of reusability-

[Anonymous No.9878906]

>>9877716
He seeked the attention of the media as it was an integral part of his strategy to not spend anything on advertisements, as well as paying employees in memes instead of money. No media outlet gives a rat ass for BO, so he shouldn't whine.

[Anonymous No.9879044]

>>9877879
Well there is a decent chance that slavery was involved in extracting the coltan for these rockets

[Anonymous No.9879160]

>>9878901
Except the New Shepard can't actually *do* anything. I mean it's got 110,000 pounds of thrust, what kind of mission profile does that allow for?

[Anonymous No.9879184]

>>9877626
No.

>>9877855
FUCK OFF IT WENT TO MOON AND BACK

>>9878895
Flying in space is infinitely harder since it's an open system with no direction and no air to glide through. You can't steer through space like you can an atmosphere, if you propel yourself left, you will continue to move left until you propel yourself right, you have to find the perfect balance for every move you do.

[Anonymous No.9879230]

>>9877369
The local pedo who happened to know the rape dungeon inside out?

[Anonymous No.9879231]

>>9879160
It's good to transport millionaires just above the Karman-line and take cash for that. It's also a testing bed for the New Glenn and how to build a easily reusable rocket.


>>9879184
It's actually way easier for exactly the explanation you just gave.

[Anonymous No.9879262]

>>9879231
>It's actually way easier for exactly the explanation you just gave.
How's that?

[Anonymous No.9879424]

>>9877377
lmao you fucking brainlet

[Anonymous No.9879426]

>>9877707

omg how can you be so dense mate

[Anonymous No.9879682]

Cute dildo

[Anonymous No.9879766]

Why do so many of you root against somebody building space launch vehicles? More spaceships is better.

[Anonymous No.9879832]

>>9879766
>Why do so many of you
(you)s or gtfo, no source means no argument

[Anonymous No.9880029]

>>9879832
This your first space thread on /sci/ is t? Cool, welcome.

If you want to hang, though, you'll have to chose one company for eternal fanboi dedication.

[Anonymous No.9880035]

>>9880029
I know there's one BO guy in this thread with the vast majority of the posts who thinks anyone being realistic is attacking him personally. I'm curious to see if your idea of being unfair is actually just being realistic.