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Such a pretty rocket. I really hope this launch succeeds; I'm tired of feeling like SpaceX is thirty years ahead of everyone else! Ten years is much more palatable.
Prediction: gets to orbit, no landing attempt. They're so cautious that there's no way the software checks will all pass on the way down.
Yeah, some actual competition for SpaceX would be great for the industry.
A landing attempt does seem ambitious for the first flight, though they do have landing experience with New Shepard.
I hope we'll eventually get to hear about how their experience landing New Shepard translated to New Glenn. For instance, what parts of the codebase carried over? Naively, it feels like apples and oranges.
T-0 has been pushed to 2025-01-13 06:30 UTC, 01:30 local.
Edit: And T-0 has been pushed to 2025-01-13 06:52 UTC, 01:30 local.
Edit 2: T-0 pushed to 2025-01-13 07:07 UTC, 02:07 local.
Edit 3: T-0 pushed to 2025-01-13 07:27 UTC, 02:27 local.
Edit 3: T-0 pushed to 2025-01-13 07:48 UTC, 02:48 local.
T-0 has been pushed to 2025-01-13 08:15 UTC, 03:15 local.
Edit: And launch scrub.
We’re standing down on today’s launch attempt to troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue that will take us beyond our launch window. We’re reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt.