Any other KSP nerds see this?

This is such a beautiful sight! Going vertical. I can’t wait for Blue Origin’s New Glenn Maiden Flight 😀

Anyone have any information if the Honeybee Robotics facility in Altadena has survived the Eaton Fire?

From the Spaceflight Now Live Feeds at Cape Canaveral and Boca Chica

By Cat Hofacker|January 9, 2025

Inaugural launch of heavy-lift rocket could establish Blue Origin as a welcome competitor to SpaceX, ULA for national security launches

This story has been updated to reflect the new launch date. 

Latin is a dead language, but Blue Origin has made two Latin words famous in the space industry: “gradatim ferociter,” or “step by step, ferociously.”

The company’s most ferocious step yet in the rocket marketplace will be attempted Sunday morning during a launch window that opens at 1 a.m. Eastern, technology and weather permitting at the launch site and the booster landing zone in the Atlantic Ocean. Blue scrubbed the original Friday morning window “due to a high sea state in the Atlantic.”

At pad 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station stands New Glenn, a 98-meter-tall space launch vehicle of a design that has never left the ground before. Aboard is a pathfinder version of Blue Ring, a logistics spacecraft that would stay in orbit to ferry payloads to their destination orbits and refuel other spacecraft.

“This New Glenn is not launching crew anytime soon, and therefore [the inaugural launch] is lower stakes” than the company’s other big debut, the 2021 launch of a New Shepard capsule with people aboard for the first time, says astrophysicist Laura Forcyzk, founder of the Georgia consulting firm Astralytical. “But they still want to succeed so they can prove to the market that it is safe and reliable.”.....

"https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/generals-spies-and-moguls-cross-their-fingers-for-bezos-new-glenn/"

Hey Reddit,

I have an interview coming up for the Blue Origin Finance Intern position, and I’m both excited and nervous! I’d really appreciate any advice from those who’ve been through similar interviews or work in the field.

Specifically, I’m wondering:

• What kind of questions should I prepare for? Are they more focused on technical skills, behavioral questions, or a mix of both?
• For technical topics, what should I focus on? (e.g., financial modeling, variance analysis, Excel, etc.)
• Any tips for standing out as a candidate?
• Is there anything specific about Blue Origin I should know to make a strong impression?

I’d love to hear your thoughts, especially on what technical skills/topics I should brush up on beforehand. Thanks so much for your help! 🚀

Blue Origin to launch its 1st New Glenn rocket early Jan. 10: Watch it live

January 6, 2025

 — John Glenn's last correspondence before his death was to approve the use of his name for Blue Origin's first orbital-class rocket.

Nine years later, the "New Glenn" is ready for its inaugural launch. Though he did not live to see it come about, Glenn — the first American to orbit Earth in 1962 — hailed the booster's soon-to-be-demonstrated capabilities for what they could hold for the future of human spaceflight.

"As the original Glenn, I can tell you I see the day coming when people will board spacecraft the same way millions of us now board jetliners," wrote the Mercury astronaut and U.S. Senator in 2016, adding that he was "deeply touched" that the New Glenn would fly with his name.

One of the key factors to that future becoming a reality is the ability to "to get to space more often and more inexpensively," Glenn wrote, which is why the New Glenn was designed to "be reused over and over again."

At the time Glenn wrote his letter, the only commercial rocket to launch, land and be reused was Blue Origin's New Shepard sub-orbital booster. It was not until a month after Glenn's death that SpaceX followed with the first orbital launch of a "flight proven" Falcon 9 rocket......

" http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-010625a-blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-name.html "

Any known launch parties or after launch bonus rumors?