Non orbital. Straight up and down with a little micro gravity at the apex. New Glenn will be the orbital rocket.But was this supposed to go on an orbit? I thought all orbital launches are to be done from a coast (unless you are China or Russia)
You can install our site as a web app on your iOS device by utilizing the Add to Home Screen feature in Safari. Please see this thread for more details on this.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Non orbital. Straight up and down with a little micro gravity at the apex. New Glenn will be the orbital rocket.But was this supposed to go on an orbit? I thought all orbital launches are to be done from a coast (unless you are China or Russia)
Retros made the huge dust cloud.I'm not sure if this belongs here, but if you watched the BO launch, anomaly, and capsule landing, I could swear the retro's were supposed to fire just as the capsule landed, there was a "Whoa" exclamation at 1 min 4 seconds, then dead silence for 1 minute, as capsule accelerated away at _quite_ _high_ gravities, not suited for old fat guys 'n such, not wearing high G flight suits.
I expect if there had been human occupants during that burst of speed in the capsule, such as "Captain James Tiberius Kirk/William Shatner" there would have been "anomalies" inside the capsule also
when the capsule landed, after the drogues released, which seemed to be late, and then the main's which also seemed late, it really looked like a hard landing with no seeming retros firing.
I await the conference explaining wtf happened.
thank you. it's just those dust clouds looked a lot bigger than previous ones from previous landings.Retros made the huge dust cloud.
The abort happened near Max Q, so deceleration after escape engine cut out would be pretty high.
It's hard to catch, but you can see the dust cloud form before touchdown and then the capsule settles into it. 1:26:21. I think there is a rise that blocks view of the landing spot.thank you. it's just those dust clouds looked a lot bigger than previous ones from previous landings.
I shall go back and watch the video from
nextspaceflight.com @1/4 speed, i see no retros fire, perhaps my eyes are bad i guess
you are correct, I am incorrect.I don't think you are going to see so much dust cloud with the capsule just slamming in. The retros probably fired with just around 5 or 6 feet above the ground. Good enough to absorb the shock
Lawmaker wants to buy a New Shepard seat. In one of the more bizarre pieces of legislation that I've seen, South Carolina State Rep. Neal Collins (R-Pickens) wants the state to purchase a seat on Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle and give it away to a resident. "A few companies have made it to where it’s possible for normal people to go to space, and I want to raise awareness of that,” Collins told The State. “Why not send one person a year to space and raise that awareness?"
Taxpayer-funded private spaceflight? ... Under Collins’ plan, the state would convene a commission responsible for selecting space travelers. The seven-member commission, composed of representatives from the aerospace industry, academia, and government, would establish selection criteria and choose applicants best able to promote the program’s goal of encouraging careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Collins said he wants to pay for the program out of South Carolina’s general fund budget. Props to whichever Blue Origin lobbyist works South Carolina.
The company has not heeded this advice. Founded by Jeff Bezos more than two decades ago, Blue Origin has largely been non-transparent in its activities during its existence, only rarely offering glimpses of its work through carefully choreographed public relations campaigns. Bezos almost never speaks with space journalists about the company's activities. This has continued with the New Shepard-23 investigation. To date, Blue Origin has said nothing publicly about the failure, its investigations, or the next steps.
The Enterprise impulse drive was generally considered by fans to be powered by a fusion reactor and was capable of going about 0.25C. So Shatner’s “knowledge“ would be of little use to BO.Although he's probably more familiar with impulse engines, maybe Eric could contact Kirk to get some straight answers.
Eric Berger: After a failure 4 months ago, the New Shepard spacecraft remains in limbo
Congress is pressing Blue Origin to be transparent, but…
It doesn't appear it's Berger taking 4-month-old news and deciding to write a story about it... it's a recent FCC filing, that in tern raised the congressional interest, that prompted it,Berger should really think about getting into tabloid journalism. Taking one old news event (some congressperson asking for transparency) and making it into a current article is more worthy of the Harry and Meghan saga than rockets.
BO simply doesn’t reveal anything until they need to in the public arena. That’s how they’ve operated since they started. There’s no new news here; implied uncooperativeness is in poor taste.
When blue has something to share, they’ll share it with the right people.
It doesn't appear it's Berger taking 4-month-old news and deciding to write a story about it... it's a recent FCC filing, that in tern raised the congressional interest, that prompted it,
The subcommittee "strongly encourage[ed] Blue Origin to be as transparent as possible" and requested they "keep the Members of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics appraised of the plans and timetable for the NS-23 anomaly investigation, the root cause of the failure once determined, and plans to ensure that actions to address the root cause or causes are completed.”Berger does not suggest the flight filing you link resulted in congressional interest. Berger recycled the post-anomaly dialogue.
On a similar note, can you BELIEVE the dress Meghan wore to see The Queen two years ago? Scandalous!
Again, there's no new news here, let's not read what we want to read just because we don't like the way Blue operates.
Seems like a pretty clear case of a newsworthy recent development to me.
Yes, especially because the issue effects a human spaceflight program which is regulated by the federal government.BO hasn’t shared the findings or any progress towards that and that is puzzling - that is news
Can you provide a reference for where Berger makes these claims? I see none in the article.Therefore BO has something to hide and has a questionable leadership and culture - that is tabloid only fit for main stream media, not for Eric Burger.
This is your opinion of what "anyone of sound mind" might expect. (Much like you wanted te tell us what "was reasonable" to think regarding the Artemis launch). Clearly, not everyone shares your opinion.I'm sorry, I simply can't agree with your assertion that when everything is going literally exactly how anyone of sound mind would have expected it to go, that thing be classified as "newsworthy" or a "recent development".
We hope so. However we have no evidence of such, which is the crux of the article.Again, when Blue has something to share they will share it with the right people.
They are not in any way trying to sidestep appropriate bureaucratic imperatives (Ironically, the same can't always be said for SX...); There is zero evidence they are going to do anything but Exactly The Appropriate Things before returning to flight.