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fyrepenguin

07:02

T-1 minute to launch of New Glenn

Seems go for launch

Deluge going

Aaaaand liftoff

Cleared tower, so ground is safe

Looking good

Meco and a successful stage sep, with stage 2 ignition

Sadly no continued video on the upper stage

Booster relight confirmed

Booster telemetry kinda paused on-stream though which is … interesting

Second stage orbital

probably lost the booster

10 hours later…

geoffc

17:30

Getting the re-entry burn right was something SpaceX took some time to get correct. More data will be collected and the issue resolved I am sure.

1 hour later…

fyrepenguin

18:58

@geoffc yeah. Was hoping their experience with New Shepard would help them succeed first go, but the fact that they essentially already have a working expendable rocket (that may be able to take paying customers) is great for them. They can now go and focus on working out landing issues while flying it regularly, like the Falcon 9 did.

1 hour later…

geoffc

20:11

@fyrepenguin Test on customer flights is an awesome approach. Let someone else pay for the test program.

TheMatrix Equation-balance

21:04

@geoffc - Landing a large booster on a barge could be a useful experience for SpaceX (future Starship) as well.

TheMatrix Equation-balance

22:04

SpaceX FINALLY launches Starship Flight 7 LIVE from Starbase, TX! Watch with us!

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fyrepenguin

22:36

And IFT-7 also looks go for launch in 1 minute

Go for launch!

Go for catch so far

And that catch was smooth like butter

TheMatrix Equation-balance

Perfect Catch #2 !!!

fyrepenguin

Ship is looking wonky though

Loss of data? Not great

It’s kinda interesting - Blue Origin had a successful first and second stage launch, but a failed landing, while SpaceX had a successful first stage launch and landing but a failure of the second stage, both on the same day

geoffc

22:59

Have they confirmed an upper stage failure yet? Somethinng has happened clearly/

Ah well Ship 34 is almost complete. Booster 16 is almost complete, lets go for IFT-8!

HArdware rich programs are FUN!

They reflew an engine from IFT-5. Of course they took engine 314 (The Pi engine, with a slice of Pie painted on its bell). But you realize that means they have built at least 314 engines!! They are closer to 500+ based on Serial Numbers.

TheMatrix Equation-balance

They talk about Turkey, burning ship.

fyrepenguin

imgur.com/a/tOdkILS

@TheMatrixEquation-balance Turks, not Turkey. As in the British overseas territories by the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. Turkey is nowhere near the flight path

@geoffc see the above link for video of the alleged post-RUD re-entry

fyrepenguin

23:56

Seen a few more videos looking similar

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