First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10

Blue Origin has named the date for the first launch of its New Glenn rocket – January 10. It wasn't quite the end of 2024 as originally envisioned, but there won't be many rocket fanciers grumbling about a slip of a few more days if it means the launch has a greater chance of success. The inaugural launch is scheduled for no …

[beast666]

Lame first stage name. Nearly as bad as Rocket Lab's lame names.

[Sandtitz]

"beast666"

'lame' x2

How's the puberty going?

[IGotOut]

He prefer if it had "Bear" in the titl, bit more along his paymasters thinking.

[Anonymous Coward]

Expected delivery date Jan 10

It may move backward once your order is placed.

[IGotOut]

Re: Expected delivery date Jan 10

When it lands they'll spend half a day looking for it, only to be told to give it a few more days before raising a complaint.

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Expected delivery date Jan 10

...and then they'll send a "proof of delivery" photo showing it landed on someone else’s barge in the next ocean over.

[Anonymous Coward]

they can both F off

as bezo the clown and musktwat are both sucking orange turd cock, they can both fuck off to the moon without a helmet

[Vulch]

Busy day

SpaceX Starship IFT-7 is currently due up at around 22:00 UTC the same day.

[John Robson]

Re: Busy day

Could be one hell of an exciting day.

[Vulch]

Re: Busy day

And now moved to saturday apparently.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Busy day

These dates have been disregarded apparently:

January 10, 22:00-23:38 UTC

January 11, 13:00-14:38 UTC

January 12, 22:00-23:38 UTC

So, current NET for IFT7 is January 13, 22:00-23:38 UTC

There are 3 subsequent windows:

January 14, 22:00-23:38 UTC

January 15, 22:00-23:38 UTC

January 16, 22:00-23:38 UTC

All of this is per NOTAMS issued in Mexico, so YMMV on completeness/correctness, but it's worked before.

[Koffi1995]

1:00-4:00am local time

Why would they schedule their launch in the dead of night from 1:00-4:00am EST before a work day? Even on the west coast that's still 10:00pm to 1:00am. It's not like their test payload is docking with the ISS or going to another planet, it doesn't need to be launched at an exact time. Maybe they don't want publicity for the launch in case something goes wrong?

[John Robson]

Re: 1:00-4:00am local time

Convenience? Avoiding other launches that day? Because that's the time they got given?

They might want a night launch for video purposes, or they might want a particular lighting condition for landing.

Myriad reasons, but it's a launch, and a fairly exciting one at that. BO finally going orbital, will be very interesting to watch (even if it's delayed a little further)

[Vulch]

Re: 1:00-4:00am local time

It could be something as simple as getting the launch done before the work day starts in the nearby industrial area. That area has to be evacuated when SpaceX is due to land a booster back at LZ-1 or LZ-2 which are just north of the BO pad, so it's likely that it would need to be evacuated for a New Glenn launch which has the potential for a much bigger boom than would happen with a nearly empty Falcon 9 booster.

[I ain't Spartacus]

Re: 1:00-4:00am local time

Why would they schedule their launch in the dead of night

Rocket launches look cooler at night?

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: 1:00-4:00am local time

Same reason Ridley Scott shot Blade Runner at night and in the rain. They couldn't afford a big enough set.

[42656e4d203239]

Re: 1:00-4:00am local time

>>They couldn't afford a big enough set

Birds aren't real

[MachDiamond]

Re: 1:00-4:00am local time

" it doesn't need to be launched at an exact time."

It does. They want to land in daylight and need to have NOTAMS and other notices posted for the launch and crash locations. Even if they crash in international waters, they can't leave the warning open for indefinite periods of time. Nor can they block the road going past the habitat destruction facility for days at a time, even if they are closing it much more than their permitting allows.

[TVU]

Blue Origin has named the date for the first launch of its New Glenn rocket – January 10

I hope that this first launch is successful because competition avoids being wholly dependent on one operator such as SpaceX.

[EnviableOne]

Re: Blue Origin has named the date for the first launch of its New Glenn rocket – January 10

SpaceX isn't the only player in the game,

it's just they knock the existing suppliers (Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security) out of the pork barrel,

They only need 1/10 the pork to get the thing off the ground

They also have the first-mover advantage in recyclable launch systems and proven records of getting to space.

BO have a lot of catching up to do, to get 1/10th of spaceX experience, and proof of reliability.

they managed 3 launches last year to Rocket Labs' 14, CASC's 49 and SpaceX's 134

[John Brown (no body)]

A question that has been hagging me for a while.

What is the different between a "Launch Complex" and a "Space Launch Complex"? Better yet, why is a Space Launch Complex abbreviated SLC and often pronounced "Slick" , eg SLC40 or Slick-40, while a Launch Complex, even though sometime abbreviated to LC, is never pronounced "Lick", eg LC39 is never Lick-39 :-)