Blue Origin and SpaceX competing to see who can delay the most.

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u/ActuallyUnder 1d ago

It might not go on the 12th either. First flight and all. We shouldn’t be surprised by a scrub during terminal countdown because I’m sure there are a million sensors that are going to be set very conservatively.

But, it will fly, it’s just if matter of time now. Soon. And soon enough it will be the 2nd flight, and the 10th flight.

The waiting is honestly kind of fun. Like a kid waiting for Christmas.

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u/Emotional-Amoeba6151 1d ago

Some people are into edging 🤷

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u/KnubblMonster 1d ago

Yeah, patience is a virtue. Go fever is real and must be overcome, rushing something complex doesn't help.

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u/Swimming_Anteater458 11h ago

That’s why BO is so behind💀

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u/ContraryConman 1d ago edited 1d ago

If they're delaying for weather/conditions and they're launching from roughly the same place, it makes sense that both would delay

E: Starship is from TX though, my bad

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u/paulhockey5 1d ago

Starship launches from Texas

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u/MajorRocketScience 1d ago

They were both hit by the same cold front that’s causing massively increased winds

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u/kaninkanon 1d ago

Well Blue Origin is cancelling due to the weather conditions downrange at the landing site, not at their launch site ..

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u/MajorRocketScience 1d ago

That’s about right, this cold front is something like 2000 miles wide

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u/Max_Fill_0 1d ago

And an inch deep.

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u/ICYprop 1d ago

One is in TX and the other is FL.

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u/Fenris_uy 1d ago

One is landing in the middle of the Atlantic, the other in Texas.

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u/rustybeancake 1d ago

/ Indian Ocean

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u/ContraryConman 1d ago

Oh oops, I thought they were both launching from Cape Canaveral

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u/Simon_Drake 1d ago

Falcon 9 launches from pads that are ~10 and ~15 miles away from New Glenn's pad in Cape Canaveral. And SpaceX did build some infrastructure for launching Starship from Pad 39A in Florida. But then the first Starship launch from Texas ripped the launch site apart and they've been reconsidering the pad design. There's a second launchpad (third overall) being built in Texas next to their original (repaired) pad but it's of a brand new design. I think after they're comfortable with the design of the second Texas pad they'll go back to rebuild the Florida pad with the new design.

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u/TitaniumShadow 1d ago

“You will never remember the many times the launch slipped, but the on-time failures are with you always.” – Walt Williams.

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u/megamoonrocket 1d ago

Perfect. I didn’t want to stay up tonight lmao

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u/Lateraluseless 1d ago

I've been working on the ship for a year this is killing me lol

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u/_Stormhound_ 1d ago

Wow, which part/s were you working on?

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u/omgitsbees 1d ago

better safe than sorry. neither are Boeing, they care about their reputation and safety.

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u/rustybeancake 1d ago

Yeah Boeing are known for launching on time and never having any delays 👀

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u/SeattleOligarch 1d ago

🤣🤣 There is two astronauts in space that would like a word with Boeing's safety team.

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u/CR24752 1d ago

lol 😂

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u/RandyBeaman 1d ago

Does anyone know why they are targeting 1am local? Being a test flight I wouldn't think they need to hit a specific orbit and obviously it's much easier to track the launch and landing in the daytime.

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u/Bergasms 1d ago

Harder for the ULA snipers to pick their targets

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u/Master_Engineering_9 1d ago

most likely because it's easier to clear the launch area during that time and go about issues during the day while most of the mechanics, manufacturing engineers etc are there.

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u/Heywod 20h ago

This would be my guess too. They shut down the island during launches so with something like this where there’s multiple launch time slots it’s probably just better to do it with minimal day to day disturbance.

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u/whitelancer64 1d ago

It's not any easier to track the launch / landing in the daytime. Radar and telemetry work regardless of the time of day.

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u/acrewdog 19h ago

Both Shuttle failures were found to be tied back to launch issues that were detected with optical cameras. Optical failure analysis was important in understanding the Vulcan launch issue last year. Sure, we have infrared but sunlight makes visualization of the vehicle much easier.

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u/Shotty_Time 1d ago

This is exactly why we need a second planet to launch from.

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u/shugo7 1d ago

And another one

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u/Neige_Blanc_1 1d ago

1am Sunday is so much better for a working space fan than 1am Friday :)

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u/rspeed 5h ago

Two prototype vehicles, one of them a maiden flight. Delays were very much anticipated.

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u/GreenGoldNeon 1d ago

Booooo

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u/Planck_Savagery 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, we've all been there. (Mother Nature can be really fickle at times).

Best thing Blue can do is wait for the storm to blow over (and for the weather forecast to improve).

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u/maxehaxe 1d ago

I mean this battle is still open, nonetheless the overall war is decided already.

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u/snoo-boop 1d ago

It's not really a war. Both of these rockets will have a lot of launches.

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u/goldman60 1d ago

If it were 1985 you probably would have called the race for the computer for IBM instead of Amiga lmao

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u/acrewdog 19h ago

I'd call New Glenn a competitor of Falcon 9, Vulcan, and Ariane 6 rather than a competitor to Starship.