Blue Origin is a company that usually keeps most of its progress and developments to itself. This left the majority of people under the impression that New Glenn, the company’s next-generation launch vehicle, was still many years away from an actual flight test. Earlier today, however, the company shared some significant new information.
This included an image of both a test-ready first and upper stage of New Glenn being mated in the company’s hanger. This marks the first time the company has done this and is a major step in the goal of launching the rocket later this year. Here I will go more in-depth into the new update from Blue Origin, what we know about the flight later this year, upcoming tests, and more.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:35 - A Full New Glenn
2:52 - Launch Date
Great vid. Blue Origin updates are always welcome.
A no bullshit channel… subscribed.
Ditto
Clickbait channel. BO is not "preparing to launch" New Glenn. They probably haven't even assembled the vehicle.
For BS channels... WAI and Marcus House, SpaceX sycophants par excellence!!
Love the videos man. Keep up the work
Congratulations on 30K subscribers! I really enjoy your videos and I look forward to future content!
grats on 30k!!
This is a very underrated Space News channel!
Agreed. I love how this is one of the few channels reporting on smaller companies and basically not evangelizing one company. Unbiased, sometimes misinformed/ speculative, sometimes scary how on the nose he reports. I love hearing from this channel.
Agreed too. I get a lot of value from a handful of space channels, and this one never fails. I really like his consistency.
Hope TheSpaceBucket is reading all this.
Congrats on the 30k! Keep it up, I hope you’re generating some $ for all your efforts.
Great channel, subscribed
Thanks man...😎😎😎
cool progress
When will be getting a New Armstrong?
If Blue Origin launches that rocket this year, I'll eat Peter Beck's hat.
thanks
..... would be a big surprise if they do it this year
Don't you just LOVE surprises!
How much weight does the paint add? Is there an advantage being painted?
Only a few hundred kilos against the 35 tonne payload New Glenn launches to LEO. White paint reflects sunlight thus reducing heating of cryogenic propellants.
paint looks cool
on point 🤣🤣
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@@davidstevenson9517 45 metric tons, actually.
In theory, this should end up costing less than Vulcan because no need for disposable SRB's.
Heavier payload too: 35 tonnes to LEO as opposed to ULA Vulcan 27 tonnes and Falcon Heavy 10 tonnes.
It was my understanding that the max payload to LEO for the Falcon Heavy is 63 tons. @@davidstevenson9517
@@davidstevenson9517falcon heavy does not have 10 tons do LEO
2nd stage looks like Vulcan without the firework crackers. 1st stage has a few engines more. Different rocket class. Maybe per kilogramm cost is lower, but not the actual launch price. And they will loose some rockets at landing. Falcon boosters don't fly higher than Jeffs flying dick. They say it's still easy to land. With this one I think they want to fly the booster higher. The learning process might become interresting. 🚀🏴☠️🎸
@@davidstevenson9517 falcon heavy does ~60 tons to leo
but reddit said the interstage being a test article meant the entire thing was a test article !!!!
Yes that well known expert on space travel engineering, Reddit!
Sending probes to mars on a brand new, highly ambitious vehicle on their very first flight when they have quite literally never been to orbit with ANY vehicle is absolutely insane. If they pull that off it will be something else.
Its not such an important mission and NASA classifies it as _experimental_ type mission. They don't believe its _on_ _schedule_ themselves. Just throw SueOrigin a peanut to keep lil jeff pleased.
they must have a lot of trust in blue origin for this, while spacex's "move fast and break things" mantra has worked well for them, im sure nasa wouldnt appreciate it if they applied that ideology to launching their billion dollar satellite.
I’m a big SpaceX fanboy and an even bigger Jeff Bezos hater. However, if this thing gets off the ground this year, the competition it will create in the US’ private space industry will be monumental in keeping us ahead of the CCP in the space race. I welcome the competition between companies; even with me having invested a lot of my own money into Rocket Lab, the more competition that’s ignited in these private space companies; the better. Good luck everyone!
If elon has success getting Starship working that will destroy the market for companies like blue origin
@@deannelson9565 A: if someone wants to launch their 10 pound satellite into orbit they do not need starship. B: adding onto A there is a reason why spacex doesn't use only falcon heavy. most launches don't require heavy lift launchers. having a starship with 150 tons to orbit does not change this. C: there is a big enough group that will refuse to use spacex no matter what. D: blue origin has their suborbital space tourism thing that spacex doesn't.
Make way to stoke instead@@deannelson9565
@@deannelson9565 🤷♀️ I guess we’ll see. There’s currently a 2 year waiting list on falcon 9 launches despite them doing over a hundred launches per year. The industry is expanding, we don’t just have one airline company for flying.
@@UghIHateTheseThings if the price to fly was as lopsided as it is in the space industry we would have far fewer options then we do. When SpaceX gets the Starship working they will dominate the market with many companies opting for rideshares at a fraction of the price of any other provider..
From which launchpad ?
LC-36 at the Cape.
Are they aiming to recover on the first flight?
Blue Origin haven't really said but one thing is for sure: the successful launch will be something from which SpaceX FanBoys will NEVER recover!
It would be great, but highly doubtful.
The first stage is supposed to fly higher than the flying dick. Thats much harder to land again. When ever they start, the learning process will be interresting.
Flash frame at about. :20
Poor guy never got to tell his story
Wish them luck, it's been a looonnggg time coming. I won't hold my breath though.
6:42 schedule... LMAO
Be fun to see New Glenn reach Mars before Starship does
The Muskrats will be more bent out of shape then a Starship test article.
New Glenn is only a reusable launcher of payloads, not an interplanetary spacecraft; it won't be travelling to the Moon itself, let alone the Dead Planet. But it will be fun to watch the New Glenn payloads "Cislunar Transporter" and "Blue Moon" lander despatched to the Moon before Starship HLS does (if ever).
@@davidstevenson9517 For now its only a render of a reusable launcher. But its first payload is destined to mars correct. i was kind of referring to that one vs starship
@@esbrasill Message received and understood.
That can only happen either in your dream, or Starship carries a NG segment and drops it before touching down. LOL.
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Thank you, TheSpaceBucket, for another update on New Glenn. And THANK YOU SpaceX Fanboys for voicing your dismissals of this update. The successful ULA Vulcan launch provoked a change of tack by SPX FBs: from contemptuous dismissals of ULA to sullen resentment as reality sunk in, i.e."The Sulks". Now, with BO New Glenn launch only months away, the SPX FBs denial process kicks in again: contemptuous dismissals of BO. Once New Glenn does successfully launch (this IS inevitable) we will once again see sullen resentment by SPX FBs, i.e. "The Sulks, Part Two" (this is ALSO inevitable ). Welcome to the reality of Spaceflight, SpaceX Fanboys!
Aren't you just a little Amazon Fanboy pompous little ass. Why don't we take a look at the simple facts blue origin is 24 years old ....and yet tell me again exactly how many Rockets they put into orbit in 2 1/2 fucking decades? Last time I checked those Be4 engines were spose to fly in 2019 so I think they missed their delivery date by just a chunk. Problem with new Glenn is by the time they get it up and running is technology will be getting Antiquated rapidly with other Rockets coming online that are 100% reusable.
Aren't you just a little priq that's so full of himself. so why don't you answer this question in 24 years how many Rockets has this rocket company put into orbit. No one will be selling this technology is already rapidly becoming out of date without it being 100% reusable. Gee look at that building so many Rockets laying around clearly they have the second and third ones ready to go they're just invisible.
Silly comments ....
Since SpaceX fans are not too hard to read this is my list of what they will say to dismiss Blue Origin’s coming achievements. New Glenn successful launch-will move goalposts to talk about rapid reusability and the Falcon 9 has been rated for up to 40 flights per booster. Blue Moon cargo pathfinder landing on the Moon- either they will make it out to not be that big of a feat or will dismiss it due to no payloads being carried. Blue Moon cargo lander with payloads lands on moon- they will just point at another company that has already done it and say it’s not that difficult and state SpaceX has starlink payloads to fly which is why it hasn’t landed on the moon yet. Orbital Reef launches- they will try to minimise Blue Origin’s contribution to the station as much as possible by saying the core modules are just useless pressure vessels with big windows.
@@MichaelWinter-ss6lx Aren't they silly, Michael, but they reflect the anxiety SpaceX Fanboys are now experiencing. The success of ULA Vulcan using BO BE-4s shook their confidence and this unexpected report on New Glenn has them badly rattled. If Starship continues to fail this year while New Glenn succeeds, SPX FBs will be at a loss to explain to themselves what has happened.
(people speculate) Will New Glenn launch soon? (BO) Oh it first launched months ago but we didn't tell anyone. Also we landed on the moon last week. 🤣
Then launch it. What are you waiting for
(people speculate) Will Starship launch soon? (NASA) Oh, because of Starship launch failures last year we have to tell you that we have cancelled the Artemis 3 Moon landing. Blame SpaceX.
@@davidstevenson9517 lmao the same NASA that cancelled Artemis 2 from 2024 to 2025
funny
How come a creative funny comment gets such crappy replies !? 🚀🏴☠️🎸
Hope this succesfully, we bored waiting spacex to explode their roket
They don't plan on landing it on the first go. That's why there are no landing strafes to guide it. Bit there will be grid fins. Lets see. I hope It's successful on its first launch with at least hitting orbit?? Thanks for a great update. - NOM (Will)
My guess is they'll fit the strakes, but not the legs. That way they can get a better grasp of the reentry ballistics.
First stage gonna fly higher than Falcon9 booster. Gonna be a lot harder to land. Learning process might become interresting.
Yes they do plan on landing on the first flight .. there will never an expendable new Glenn
Investor relations press release.
Why so slow to develop and launch?
Perhaps to trick SpaceX Fanboys into a false sense of complacency before releasing the trapdoor...oops, I mean, springing their surprise!
Different style of engineering
Space is hard.
because its BO
Comment: Blue Origin did something cool! Replies: beating off to SpaceX
Actually the helium for tank pressurization simplifies things. The recycled burned gas of methalox engines is another headache. I'd not dare to call that simple --- just to sum it up.
At this point it's "Old Glenn".
At this point, Starship is "Space Debris" and Boca Chica is an enviromental "Ground Zero".
the real first for this company is actually launching its first and only vehicle to hit LOE or above. They have never launched to space other than their zero G funpark ride that goes straight up and down with a few minutes of zero G. “They” call this going to space.😂
Best of luck Amazon.. I hope all goes well….
Misleading title…of course they’re preparing to launch…they’ve been doing that for years with still. O launch date in the foreseeable future……but given the extensive preparation time, I’d say it’s likely to perform perfectly.
Is august 2024 not a launch date?
Step by step, when we get around to it.😂
I’ll believe it when I see it
Yeah they've never been quiet about anything. Everytime SpaceX would make an achievement blue origin would release an infographic about how awesome BO will be some day. They didn't have news because they hadn't made any progress.
Did they though? Really? Sounds like an echo chamber.
And even then I will wait until Scott Manley or Marcus House or The Angry Astronaut report on it. For the record that 1st stage shown at around the 1:10 mark looked pretty hollow. If I was a BO stockholder I would be pretty much POed out of my mind. How many years has NG been in development? Meanwhile in South Texas they're gearing up for the 3rd IFT of SpaceX's 2nd major launch vehicle! Go SpaceX!!
I agree... No more CGI
Indeed
I am waiting for this launch in 2038
Well, goodnight, Rip van Winkle, sleep well but be warned, the world will be a lot different when you eventually wake up.
Next year lmao
There's no GEM 63XL's this time.
These are not Flight hardware but more so this articles
You need a rocket before you can launch it.
Didn't you see it? It was that big, long, white tube on the factory floor in front of the U.S. flag. Watch it in slow-motion!
Launch when? 2030?
Launch: 2024, a Blue Origin Christmas gift for NASA; though I doubt Elon Musk will appreciate the gesture, seeing how his gift was broken.
FIRST VEIW
I like Turtles... J Bezos
Where are they going to launch it from. NASA won't allow a Starship launch from Florida until it has proved itself because they are afraid of the hole it could make.
BOs New Glenn will launch from the Cape, just as ULAs Vulcan did weeks ago. That is a show of confidence in New Glenn by NASA, FAA and FWS; they are NOT afraid of any "unplanned excavations" that are caused by an "unscheduled disassembly". Good luck at Boca Chica! 😁🚀💥🐦🐢⚠️
They're launching out of LC-36. That's where the booster and 2nd stage are, along with the mass simulators seen in the photos.
I hope they DO launch the New Glenn and it's successful. The problem is going to be....how long until they can do it again? This first launch is HOW far behind schedule? And...what's leading anyone to believe that a second launch isn't going to also be years behind schedule? To be a viable launch vehicle they need to have 3 or 4 more being built RIGHT NOW. But they don't and are seemingly struggling to get this first one to the pad. And again to be a viable competitor to SpaceX they need to be able to crank out the BE-4's fast enough to populate the NG and Vulcan's which doesn't seem to be happening while SpaceX is building Raptors and Merlin's at a comparatively frantic pace. Looks to me that this will be a very limited launch vehicle that has NO chance of being commercially successful which means that it'll only survive by sucking tax dollars from a Congress who wants to have a second launch company rather than just support SpaceX..which would be the smarter and more economical decision.
I don’t know your sources but if you are talking about NASA contract money, that is not how any of that works. Government has gates that have to be met before money is granted. They are granting money so obviously gates are being met. SpaceX runs the same way. Besides both companies depend heavily on their founders.
Fortunately, the Space Industry is indifferent to your opinions: they pay while you merely watch.
ULA is for sale. They were thinking about 2 or 3 launches a year. Thats what SX does in a week. NASA has 2 or 3 years for a launch. And see? First they say the super rocket had a perfect mission and over a year later they show the problems they had with it. Crucial parts getting a complete redesign. But next mission with crew anyway. Also, the side firework crackers used to be prohibited in human space flight, for good reasons.
Blue Origin confirmed last autumn that they have 4 New Glenn 1st stages being manufactured and hope to launch at least 2 this year.
@@MichaelWinter-ss6lx SRB have never been prohibited in human rated launch vehicles, also you don't sound like a native english speaker when you say 'firework crackers', it's 'firecrackers' OR 'fireworks' not both, the former are small noise makers generally set off on the ground, while the latter is used for larger more bright visual and air launched pyrotechnics.
Honestly why? Not sure the launch economics of New Glen…with Falcon, Falcon Heavy and Starship (actually having a few flights)…and even ULA ahead…unless Blue Origin has good launch economics.
You should know why. Myself and other REAL Space Advocates with a lifetime of experience observing Spaceflight know why.
@@davidstevenson9517 Explain yourself
@@100c0c space is big. Every company has a different long term goal. People not in the industry have no clue the long term plans of these companies. How much infrastructure will have to be developed. Lunar permanence, interplanetary regulations, mining near earth objects, zero g manufacturing, deep space communications networks. There is so much and everyone has a piece of the puzzle.
Versatility is key in future spaceflight endeavors. New Glenn could is in a lift category between falcon 9 and star ship, and it has different mission capabilities. Havign multiple design philosophies behind our tech also allows for better long term development.
Every new entrant into the market has the fundemental advantage of being able to offer a customer the chance to jump out of the queue they have with some other launch provider and potentially get launched sooner on the new providers launcher.
Ah the cart BE-4 the horse...meaning them producing 7 engines that all work to stage separation I'm thinking might happen 2 years from now.
Wrong. You are NOT thinking.
I would love to see your sources. Do you have an inside source or are you just trolling for clout.
Clever. ULA has dibs on the BE-4, so engine priority goes to them. But there does seem to be an awful lot of BE-4s on the floor.
Two worked flawlessly on Vulcan just a few weeks ago, and it gives Blue lots of data on how 7 of them will work on New Glenn. With at least one more launch on Vulcan in the coming months before New Glenn's first flight at the end of this year, along with static firings of NG's 1st stage, they'll know. On top of that, unlike Vulcan, the BE-4s on NG don't have to fire for nearly as long.
I highly doubt it'll launch within 4 years.
NASA doesn't have any doubts, assigning the first launch of New Glenn to a Mars mission!
Do the economics of this work out when they don't recover the rocket?
Depends entirely on how much you charge for the launch, and how much you consider the first launch as part of the R&D budget.
“I PAID FOR THE WHOLE ROCKET SO I’M GOING TO USE THE WHOLE ROCKET”
The launcher IS reusable! Where have you been, Mars? BO New Glenn is reusable, can launch 35 tonne max. to LEO and lands in one piece. SpaceX Falcon Heavy is reusable, can launch 10 tonne max. to LEO and lands in three pieces. Guess which launcher the Space Industry is most interested in?
That's not in question. The question was, is it still economic to run it in expendable mode? This might be done, for example, for extremely heavy lifts to LEO, or for high delta v for an interplanetary probe. Would a New Glenn be an economically viable choice, or would moving to a different platform be cheaper? This is a valid question, because *if* New Glenn were used in expendable mode it would theoretically rival the performance of SLS.@@davidstevenson9517
they dont have an be4 engines though.
Source?
Source, DroolP? Fear, desperation and doubts about having placed "faith" in Elon Musk. Collectively, these mean that personal embarrassment and public humiliation are in store for Aldine at having been conned by a dazzling sale-pitch by an meglamaniacal egotist. THAT is Aldine's source.
Seriously doubt that it will launch in the next 5 years.
Keep doubting; the shock will be even greater. Looking forward to your public apology posted in The Space Bucket Comments later on this year.
Sources? Instinct? Blind doubt manufactured by straw man fantasy pits one company against the other. Celebrate success of all companies and hope for the best out of all of them. It is better for all of us.
Put Bezos on this thing…I’m sure it will fly and land the first time
OK Fine ,now prove it
Blue Origin will do that with pleasure!
@@davidstevenson9517are you the world's 1 and only BO fanboy?
Oh no! There is also NASA, the U.S. Department of Defence and the Global Space Industry. I march with millions of others with trillions of dollars.
So. 13 years late. And if New Glenn files 100 times per year they'll never match SpaceX. If they fly 10 times per month, they'll catch SpaceX in 15 years.
Good thing you don't work for the GAO!
I have no faith
No room for "Faith" in science, especially Spaceflight. Faith belongs with the religiously inclined and SpaceX Fanboys. Science and Spaceflight demands results, not hopes and handwringing.
No it's not. BO isn't preparing to launch jack sht. They're not even done BUILDING the fake New Glenn rocket that's never even going to fly, let alone make it to orbit; So they're most certainly not preparing to launch it yet. It will be at least a year before that thing ever gets completed.
Preparing to launch New Glenn = No launch until maybe 2029
Preparing to launch New Glenn = No launch until end of this year.
Preparing to launch New Glenn = No sleep for Elon Musk any time this year (or the next...).
@@plainText384 waiting for their rocket engines since '16