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Impending launches - New Glen and Starship.

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New Glen - 6th Jan to 12th Jan. 

 

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New Glenn will lift off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral with Blue Origin’s Blue Ring Pathfinder—a prototype spacecraft designed to host and transport up to 3,000 kilograms of payloads, refuel visiting spacecraft, and enable in-space computing and communications.

The vehicle, designed to adjust its orbit and fly an array of different trajectories beyond low-Earth orbit, is being funded by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for future Department of Defense missions. On NG-1, Blue Origin hopes to demonstrate Blue Ring’s ability to beam communications from space to the ground, among other test objectives.

New Glenn’s upper stage will spend about six hours in orbit before being expended. The lower stage, meanwhile, will reverse course and ignite its engines for a landing burn. Blue Origin will attempt to land the booster—nicknamed “So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance”—on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. If successful, it would mark only the second time the maneuver has been pulled off on the first go.

 

 

Starship FT7 - 10th Jan. 

 

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The mission profile for flight test 7 will be similar to that of the previous launch, targeting a splashdown in the Indian Ocean while also completed a relight attempt. Additionally, S33 will deploy ten Starlink "simulators", which will also reenter over the Indian Ocean.[15]

 

 

 

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Luis Hernandez

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On 1/10/2025 at 8:52 AM, martin-w said:

New Glen - Jan 12th (Due to high sea state)

Starship - Jan 13th (Due to weather) 

Oh, I missed these launches. Shame on me 😂

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martin-w

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43 minutes ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Oh, I missed these launches. Shame on me 😂

 

Nope. Both scrubbed.

New Glen now no earlier than Thursday.

Starship might be tomorrow. 5PM EST. Think that's 10PM my time. 

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charliearon

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Can we make sure that Leon and all of his buddies are on board both rockets?   BIG BADA-BOOM!

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Mike A

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12 minutes ago, charliearon said:

Can we make sure that Leon and all of his buddies are on board both rockets?   BIG BADA-BOOM!

👍

 

martin-w

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22 hours ago, charliearon said:

Can we make sure that Leon and all of his buddies are on board both rockets?   BIG BADA-BOOM!

 

No, but if we are prepared to appreciate the launch from a technical perspective... here's the link.

7.5 hours to go. 

 

 

 

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SCRUB! 👎

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Looks like New Glenn launched and achieved orbit last night. The booster did not make it back in one piece, but making it to orbit was the primary objective.....and quite the achievement to pull it off on their first launch.

Starship flight 7 planned to launch this afternoon now.

It'll be quite the day if they both manage successful (ish) launches within 24Hrs.

 

DB

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1 hour ago, DaviiB said:

Looks like New Glenn launched and achieved orbit last night. The booster did not make it back in one piece, but making it to orbit was the primary objective.....and quite the achievement to pull it off on their first launch.

Starship flight 7 planned to launch this afternoon now.

It'll be quite the day if they both manage successful (ish) launches within 24Hrs.

 

DB

 

Yep. There's another thread on New Glen launch.

5 hours till Starship blast off. 

10 Starlink simulators will be deployed and new heat shield tech tested.

 

 

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