Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

NSF is also reporting that it took out one of the lightning rod towers. It'll be interesting to see how much damage the pad and ground equipment sustained.

Re: Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

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Post by 0xbadcafebee » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:16 AM UTC

Computer0 wrote: post #5

SilverElfin wrote: post #3

Shame. I would love to see a competitor rein in SpaceX.

SpaceX had to blow up plenty to get to where they are.

It looks like SpaceX blew up ~20 times while Blue Origin has blown up ~4

Re: Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:18 AM UTC

NSF live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm8wRjD3xVA

Re: Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

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Post by Ancapistani » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC

Computer0 wrote: post #5

SilverElfin wrote: post #3

Shame. I would love to see a competitor rein in SpaceX.

SpaceX had to blow up plenty to get to where they are.

Yeah, but the vast majority of those were planned, and at least most exceeded expectations.

Was this an expected outcome? It doesn’t sound like it, but I’ve not really investigated it deeply.

Re: Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

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Post by ezfe » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC

d_silin wrote: post #4

Very unfortunate, but strategically this changes nothing for US spaceflight. If anything, SpaceX will continue to increase its dominance.

Blue Origin is challenging SpaceX - they are not the incumbent. I'm not sure how you can say that SpaceX will increase dominance despite this.