Two Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stages wrecked in factory mishaps! Will this delay NASA missions?

Transcript
0:00 · good afternoon on today's angry bulletin
0:03 · even though transparency may not seem
0:06 · the best thing for launch providers all
0:08 · the time because it puts your failures
0:11 · out in front of everybody and sometimes
0:14 · those failures can look a lot more
0:16 · spectacular and damaging than they
0:18 · actually turn out to be it's much better
0:21 · to be that way in my opinion then to try
0:24 · to conceal your failures from the world
0:27 · because when that happens journalists
0:29 · can sign sometimes imagine things being
0:32 · far worse than they actually are because
0:34 · we don't have any details at all and
0:37 · that's what's happened with blue origin
0:39 · again except in this case two new Glenn
0:43 · Rockets have apparently been damaged in
0:45 · Factory mishaps mishaps that could
0:48 · potentially have an impact on Blue
0:50 · Origins hls obligations for aremis and
0:54 · once again it's very difficult for us to
0:57 · determine whether or not this is indeed
0:59 · the case
1:00 · because blue origin isn't telling us
1:02 · anything but I'm going to tell you what
1:04 · we know thus far and what sort of impact
1:07 · these Maps may actually have right
1:14 · now in a recent episode I made some
1:17 · pretty critical comments about how
1:20 · little blue origin was showing Tim do
1:23 · the everyday astronaut of their facility
1:26 · and how much they had him blur out
1:28 · admittedly a lot was not blurred out but
1:31 · this I think is one of the most
1:32 · significant scenes that wasn't blurred
1:35 · out just the amount of open Factory
1:38 · floor space there still is in the blue
1:41 · origin facility in spite of the fact
1:44 · that they should be churning out lots
1:46 · and lots of rockets by this time
1:49 · incidentally this particular image is a
1:51 · lot older than the one you were just
1:53 · looking at and we have a lot of other
1:56 · indications to suggest that a launch of
2:00 · new Glenn is indeed imminent this is the
2:03 · blue origin recovery ship for the
2:06 · primary booster it's actually sailing
2:08 · from France from the port of breast
2:11 · interestingly enough this isn't
2:13 · something that blue origin advertised by
2:16 · the way it's something that a sharp eyed
2:18 · Observer noticed and posted on X blue
2:21 · origin would never publicly talk about
2:25 · these sorts of things given how
2:26 · secretive this organization is and one
2:29 · of reasons that I'm so critical about
2:32 · this philosophy is not because they're
2:34 · trying to hide their technology they
2:36 · should try to hide their technology but
2:39 · the fact of the matter is they have now
2:42 · billions and billions of taxpayer
2:45 · dollars in their pockets for the hls
2:48 · project for Artemis not for some sort of
2:51 · secretive military mission that being
2:54 · the case then blue origin should be
2:57 · sharing a fair amount of information
2:59 · regarding what they're doing with all
3:01 · this money like all the other Artemis
3:04 · participants are doing such as Boeing
3:07 · and SLS as bad as they are we've seen a
3:11 · lot more transparency from Boeing
3:13 · especially in regards to what the NASA
3:16 · oig had to say about them as opposed to
3:19 · Blue origin who seems to have been oig
3:23 · bulletproof in spite of these recent
3:26 · incidents in fact I have to wonder
3:28 · whether or not the oig is even aware of
3:32 · what happened so what did happen by the
3:34 · way well a sharpey photographer from
3:37 · NASA space flight Julia Bergeron
3:40 · observed that it appears that the front
3:43 · door on the twocat factory at the blue
3:46 · origin facility at Cape Canaveral
3:49 · appears to be blown off and this is the
3:52 · only Visual Evidence that we have that
3:55 · anything has gone a Miss however BNN
3:58 · Bloomberg has reported a lot more that
4:02 · apparently has been revealed in leaks
4:05 · from Blue origin insiders and I'm just
4:07 · going to go ahead and read you the
4:08 · article quote blue origin sustained
4:11 · failures in recent weeks of testing
4:13 · including a factory mishap that damaged
4:16 · a portion of a future new Glenn rocket
4:18 · the long awaited centerpiece of the Jeff
4:21 · Bezos back startups push to take on
4:24 · SpaceX the upper portion of one rocket
4:27 · crumpled into itself in part due to
4:29 · worker error while it was being moved to
4:32 · a storage hanger according to people
4:34 · familiar with the situation in a
4:36 · separate incident another upper rocket
4:39 · portion failed during stress testing and
4:42 · exploded and I think that's probably
4:45 · where the factory door was blown off but
4:48 · once again we can't say for certain we
4:50 · have nothing official repairs are
4:52 · underway and there were no injuries
4:54 · during either episode The previously
4:57 · unreported incidents illustrate the
4:59 · hurdles blue origin is grappling with
5:02 · while ramping up production of new Glenn
5:04 · which is 4 years overdue at the same
5:07 · time new chief executive officer Dave
5:10 · limp has hired a slate of Executives to
5:12 · shake the company out of a yearslong R&D
5:16 · slump blue origin is rushing to meet a
5:19 · tight deadline to debut the rocket in
5:21 · October for a NASA mission called
5:24 · Escapade new Glenn's launch is set for
5:26 · roughly 2 months from now because at
5:29 · that time Mars will be close enough to
5:31 · Earth and just to put in my own addition
5:34 · there yes that conjunction is very
5:37 · important and we won't have another
5:39 · opportunity to launch Escapade for
5:41 · another 2 years which will essentially
5:44 · lead to a failure of the mission overall
5:46 · if new Glenn cannot pull this off it is
5:49 · not clear whether the recent incidents
5:51 · would impact the launch schedule the two
5:53 · mishaps involved Hardware slated for the
5:56 · second and third flights of the new
5:58 · Glenn rocket which are supposed to
6:00 · happen after the October debut a blue
6:03 · origin spokesperson said it's on track
6:05 · to launch new Glenn this year and is
6:08 · working hard to make that happen however
6:11 · near as I can tell from this article
6:13 · that spokesperson didn't talk about the
6:15 · incidents they just said that they are
6:17 · on track the company has a lot of
6:19 · hardware and production for upcoming
6:21 · flights the spokesperson said adding the
6:24 · blue origin is constantly testing its
6:26 · future Hardware new Glenn is designed to
6:29 · take s at ites and eventually people
6:31 · into Earth's orbit and actually all the
6:33 · way to the Moon too it's key to Blue
6:36 · origin ability to challenge Elon Musk
6:39 · SpaceX and Boeing and locked Martin
6:41 · corpse United launch Alliance for
6:43 · lucrative US National Security missions
6:46 · it's also Central to clearing a backlog
6:49 · of commercial launches for satellite
6:51 · operators including Amazon's project
6:54 · Kyper an initiative to expand Global
6:56 · Broadband access but first as we said
6:59 · before the company is on Deck to launch
7:02 · Escapade an ambitious inaugural mission
7:05 · for NASA that will send twin spacecraft
7:07 · to Mars to study the planet's magnetic
7:10 · field the two spacecraft by the way are
7:12 · built by rocket lab in collaboration
7:16 · with the University of California at
7:18 · Berkeley Escapade by the way stands for
7:20 · the escape and plasma acceleration and
7:23 · Dynamics explorers Mission it's a twin
7:26 · spacecraft science mission that will
7:28 · orbit two spacecraft around Mars to
7:31 · understand the structure composition
7:33 · variability and dynamics of Mars unique
7:36 · hybrid magnetosphere the mission will
7:39 · leverage its unique dual viewpoint on
7:41 · the Mars environment to explore how the
7:44 · solar wind strips atmosphere away from
7:47 · Mars to better understand how its
7:49 · climate has changed over time Escapade
7:51 · is being developed under NASA's small
7:54 · Innovative missions for Planetary
7:56 · Exploration known as simple X Program in
7:59 · the science Mission directorate it's
8:01 · being led by the University of
8:03 · California Berkeley with spacecraft
8:06 · design provided by rocket lab the two
8:08 · space Crafters plan for launch in 2024
8:11 · according to Rocket lab aboard a Mars
8:14 · ride sharing program aboard a NASA
8:17 · provided commercial launch vehicle once
8:19 · again rocket lap didn't specify blue
8:21 · origin in its official announcement and
8:24 · now I'm beginning to wonder whether or
8:26 · not they might regret that NASA's
8:28 · selected new GL for this Mission but
8:30 · then again near as we can tell the new
8:33 · Glenn rocket that is slated to carry
8:36 · this particular mission is not in
8:38 · jeopardy as a result of these accidents
8:41 · but again that's according to Industry
8:43 · insiders not according to NASA not
8:46 · according to Blue origin not according
8:48 · to anybody and it would be really nice
8:51 · to get more information about these
8:54 · critical missions again especially when
8:56 · one considers that Millions have not
8:59 · billions of taxpayer dollarss are being
9:02 · spent on it we need transparency if
9:05 · we're talking about these types of
9:07 · programs yes I totally understand
9:10 · secrecies surrounding military programs
9:13 · but for a company that recently received
9:15 · a multi-billion doll project to put
9:18 · human beings on the surface of the Moon
9:20 · for the first time in over 50 years we
9:23 · need the same level of transparency with
9:26 · this company and at least with this
9:28 · particular program as we have with
9:31 · Boeing and SLS no I don't want them to
9:35 · run their company the same way that
9:36 · Boeing does but I would like them to be
9:39 · just as available to the NASA office of
9:42 · Inspector General to determine where
9:44 · they are in the process and whether or
9:46 · not they might be able to fill in for
9:49 · SpaceX in in case lunar Starship takes a
9:52 · bit longer to develop than people are
9:55 · anticipating indeed it seems that lunar
9:57 · Starship is definitely heading in that
10:00 · direction but for right now it seems
10:03 · that blue origin is content to be as
10:06 · opaque as they have ever been and NASA
10:09 · doesn't seem to be holding their feet to
10:11 · the fire hopefully that changes sometime
10:14 · soon thank you very much for watching
10:16 · please don't forget to like And
10:18 · subscribe and I would like to welcome
10:20 · new patreon members Andrew G and some
10:24 · random guy who have contributed to my
10:27 · efforts to get across the Atlantic to
10:29 · cover the upcoming crew 99 mission for
10:32 · NASA and SpaceX really looking forward
10:35 · to that at the end of September if you
10:37 · would like to support this endeavor as
10:39 · well all the details are in the
10:41 · description thanks again for watching
10:43 · and as always stay angry about space
10:50 · [Music]

Whoops.

Deep State is desperately trying to find a SpaceX alternative competitor. They hate elon musk with the fury of a thousand suns. For the same reason that they hate trump and shortly JFK Jr. These people used to be in their camp. So the democrats feel betrayed. Hell hath no fury like a scorned communist.

BO is a poorly managed company. I had a professional association with these guys that showed they had no idea what they were doing, where they were going, or how they were going to get there.

Was BO as woke with the DEI as Boeing?

Well said.

The definition of Deep State has changed over the past 20 years.

Scientific progress is not about how much money you have, but about creativity.

Go back to the days of Kelly Johnson’s Skunk Works. He was light years ahead of the rest.

The depth of the intellectual corruption enabled by the financial corruption enabled by the moral corruption of the DC political establishment is staggering. I assure you these folks have no clue what it takes to do something technically challenging.

They hate truth! And their hatred for anyone who speaks truth is boundless!

Novelist Larry Bod wrote a book called Lash Up. The Chinese were destroying American satellites and we had no way to combat it. To create a new space weapon would take a decade or better because of the government procurement and oversight rules.

A small team was given Carte Blanche authority and budget to do whatever it took to make it happen and skip any normal channels they found necessary.

It was in interesting concept. Of course, it also requires honorable men, which we are woefully short of in DC

I am not into SyFi any longer, but we have incredible technology, if it is used right.

Elon Musk @elonmusk (Aug 2, 2024)
This will be the first spacewalk by a commercial company and the furthest from Earth anyone has traveled in over half a century!
https://publish.twitter.com/?url=https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1826410871796760784#
SpaceX @SpaceX
Targeting Tuesday, August 27 for launch of Polaris Dawn, the first of the @PolarisProgram’s three human spaceflight missions designed to advance the future of spaceflight

Easily as much.

Really appreciate you posting the transcripts. They’re wonderful and save so much time. Thank you.

Thanks!

/bingo

It also requires people who can do advanced math, but that’s condemned as a racist concept.

Thx. They did their best work quite a long while ago, producing that methane-burning engine used in the New Shepard ‘hopper’ craft, but they never committed to making it fully operational to send tourists up to space and back until it had flown at least 15 times over a period of years. Scaling up that engine has been slow going, and it’s coming in (supposedly) years behind schedule.

Bezos built Amazon with lots and lots of other people’s money over years and years before it became profitable. He’s probably committed some of his fortune to Blue Origin (or “Sue Origin” as it’s been called), but it’s apparent that he’s managed to get funded again with other people’s money.

We went to the NASA visitor center tours at Kennedy a few years ago. BO was right across the parking lot. Lots of fancy buildings and money being spent. The NASA visitor center employees stated NASA hated SpaceX and was counting on BO and Boeing. Going inside, SpaceX had some representation, but BO and Boeing had much greater representation and fanfare.

P.S. SpaceX was on the way to the visitor’s center but their building showed activity and not loads of fancy money being spent; minimalist but functional.

Their army of lobbyists has always paid off for Boeing. Also, the Dragon Lady in Pentagon procurement did some prison time for her corruption on behalf of Boeing.

Darlene Druyon, no?

Transcript
0:00	·	good afternoon on today's angry bulletin
0:03	·	even though transparency may not seem
0:06	·	the best thing for launch providers all
0:08	·	the time because it puts your failures
0:11	·	out in front of everybody and sometimes
0:14	·	those failures can look a lot more
0:16	·	spectacular and damaging than they
0:18	·	actually turn out to be it's much better
0:21	·	to be that way in my opinion then to try
0:24	·	to conceal your failures from the world
0:27	·	because when that happens journalists
0:29	·	can sign sometimes imagine things being
0:32	·	far worse than they actually are because
0:34	·	we don't have any details at all and
0:37	·	that's what's happened with blue origin
0:39	·	again except in this case two new Glenn
0:43	·	Rockets have apparently been damaged in
0:45	·	Factory mishaps mishaps that could
0:48	·	potentially have an impact on Blue
0:50	·	Origins hls obligations for aremis and
0:54	·	once again it's very difficult for us to
0:57	·	determine whether or not this is indeed
0:59	·	the case
1:00	·	because blue origin isn't telling us
1:02	·	anything but I'm going to tell you what
1:04	·	we know thus far and what sort of impact
1:07	·	these Maps may actually have right
1:14	·	now in a recent episode I made some
1:17	·	pretty critical comments about how
1:20	·	little blue origin was showing Tim do
1:23	·	the everyday astronaut of their facility
1:26	·	and how much they had him blur out
1:28	·	admittedly a lot was not blurred out but
1:31	·	this I think is one of the most
1:32	·	significant scenes that wasn't blurred
1:35	·	out just the amount of open Factory
1:38	·	floor space there still is in the blue
1:41	·	origin facility in spite of the fact
1:44	·	that they should be churning out lots
1:46	·	and lots of rockets by this time
1:49	·	incidentally this particular image is a
1:51	·	lot older than the one you were just
1:53	·	looking at and we have a lot of other
1:56	·	indications to suggest that a launch of
2:00	·	new Glenn is indeed imminent this is the
2:03	·	blue origin recovery ship for the
2:06	·	primary booster it's actually sailing
2:08	·	from France from the port of breast
2:11	·	interestingly enough this isn't
2:13	·	something that blue origin advertised by
2:16	·	the way it's something that a sharp eyed
2:18	·	Observer noticed and posted on X blue
2:21	·	origin would never publicly talk about
2:25	·	these sorts of things given how
2:26	·	secretive this organization is and one
2:29	·	of reasons that I'm so critical about
2:32	·	this philosophy is not because they're
2:34	·	trying to hide their technology they
2:36	·	should try to hide their technology but
2:39	·	the fact of the matter is they have now
2:42	·	billions and billions of taxpayer
2:45	·	dollars in their pockets for the hls
2:48	·	project for Artemis not for some sort of
2:51	·	secretive military mission that being
2:54	·	the case then blue origin should be
2:57	·	sharing a fair amount of information
2:59	·	regarding what they're doing with all
3:01	·	this money like all the other Artemis
3:04	·	participants are doing such as Boeing
3:07	·	and SLS as bad as they are we've seen a
3:11	·	lot more transparency from Boeing
3:13	·	especially in regards to what the NASA
3:16	·	oig had to say about them as opposed to
3:19	·	Blue origin who seems to have been oig
3:23	·	bulletproof in spite of these recent
3:26	·	incidents in fact I have to wonder
3:28	·	whether or not the oig is even aware of
3:32	·	what happened so what did happen by the
3:34	·	way well a sharpey photographer from
3:37	·	NASA space flight Julia Bergeron
3:40	·	observed that it appears that the front
3:43	·	door on the twocat factory at the blue
3:46	·	origin facility at Cape Canaveral
3:49	·	appears to be blown off and this is the
3:52	·	only Visual Evidence that we have that
3:55	·	anything has gone a Miss however BNN
3:58	·	Bloomberg has reported a lot more that
4:02	·	apparently has been revealed in leaks
4:05	·	from Blue origin insiders and I'm just
4:07	·	going to go ahead and read you the
4:08	·	article quote blue origin sustained
4:11	·	failures in recent weeks of testing
4:13	·	including a factory mishap that damaged
4:16	·	a portion of a future new Glenn rocket
4:18	·	the long awaited centerpiece of the Jeff
4:21	·	Bezos back startups push to take on
4:24	·	SpaceX the upper portion of one rocket
4:27	·	crumpled into itself in part due to
4:29	·	worker error while it was being moved to
4:32	·	a storage hanger according to people
4:34	·	familiar with the situation in a
4:36	·	separate incident another upper rocket
4:39	·	portion failed during stress testing and
4:42	·	exploded and I think that's probably
4:45	·	where the factory door was blown off but
4:48	·	once again we can't say for certain we
4:50	·	have nothing official repairs are
4:52	·	underway and there were no injuries
4:54	·	during either episode The previously
4:57	·	unreported incidents illustrate the
4:59	·	hurdles blue origin is grappling with
5:02	·	while ramping up production of new Glenn
5:04	·	which is 4 years overdue at the same
5:07	·	time new chief executive officer Dave
5:10	·	limp has hired a slate of Executives to
5:12	·	shake the company out of a yearslong R&D
5:16	·	slump blue origin is rushing to meet a
5:19	·	tight deadline to debut the rocket in
5:21	·	October for a NASA mission called
5:24	·	Escapade new Glenn's launch is set for
5:26	·	roughly 2 months from now because at
5:29	·	that time Mars will be close enough to
5:31	·	Earth and just to put in my own addition
5:34	·	there yes that conjunction is very
5:37	·	important and we won't have another
5:39	·	opportunity to launch Escapade for
5:41	·	another 2 years which will essentially
5:44	·	lead to a failure of the mission overall
5:46	·	if new Glenn cannot pull this off it is
5:49	·	not clear whether the recent incidents
5:51	·	would impact the launch schedule the two
5:53	·	mishaps involved Hardware slated for the
5:56	·	second and third flights of the new
5:58	·	Glenn rocket which are supposed to
6:00	·	happen after the October debut a blue
6:03	·	origin spokesperson said it's on track
6:05	·	to launch new Glenn this year and is
6:08	·	working hard to make that happen however
6:11	·	near as I can tell from this article
6:13	·	that spokesperson didn't talk about the
6:15	·	incidents they just said that they are
6:17	·	on track the company has a lot of
6:19	·	hardware and production for upcoming
6:21	·	flights the spokesperson said adding the
6:24	·	blue origin is constantly testing its
6:26	·	future Hardware new Glenn is designed to
6:29	·	take s at ites and eventually people
6:31	·	into Earth's orbit and actually all the
6:33	·	way to the Moon too it's key to Blue
6:36	·	origin ability to challenge Elon Musk
6:39	·	SpaceX and Boeing and locked Martin
6:41	·	corpse United launch Alliance for
6:43	·	lucrative US National Security missions
6:46	·	it's also Central to clearing a backlog
6:49	·	of commercial launches for satellite
6:51	·	operators including Amazon's project
6:54	·	Kyper an initiative to expand Global
6:56	·	Broadband access but first as we said
6:59	·	before the company is on Deck to launch
7:02	·	Escapade an ambitious inaugural mission
7:05	·	for NASA that will send twin spacecraft
7:07	·	to Mars to study the planet's magnetic
7:10	·	field the two spacecraft by the way are
7:12	·	built by rocket lab in collaboration
7:16	·	with the University of California at
7:18	·	Berkeley Escapade by the way stands for
7:20	·	the escape and plasma acceleration and
7:23	·	Dynamics explorers Mission it's a twin
7:26	·	spacecraft science mission that will
7:28	·	orbit two spacecraft around Mars to
7:31	·	understand the structure composition
7:33	·	variability and dynamics of Mars unique
7:36	·	hybrid magnetosphere the mission will
7:39	·	leverage its unique dual viewpoint on
7:41	·	the Mars environment to explore how the
7:44	·	solar wind strips atmosphere away from
7:47	·	Mars to better understand how its
7:49	·	climate has changed over time Escapade
7:51	·	is being developed under NASA's small
7:54	·	Innovative missions for Planetary
7:56	·	Exploration known as simple X Program in
7:59	·	the science Mission directorate it's
8:01	·	being led by the University of
8:03	·	California Berkeley with spacecraft
8:06	·	design provided by rocket lab the two
8:08	·	space Crafters plan for launch in 2024
8:11	·	according to Rocket lab aboard a Mars
8:14	·	ride sharing program aboard a NASA
8:17	·	provided commercial launch vehicle once
8:19	·	again rocket lap didn't specify blue
8:21	·	origin in its official announcement and
8:24	·	now I'm beginning to wonder whether or
8:26	·	not they might regret that NASA's
8:28	·	selected new GL for this Mission but
8:30	·	then again near as we can tell the new
8:33	·	Glenn rocket that is slated to carry
8:36	·	this particular mission is not in
8:38	·	jeopardy as a result of these accidents
8:41	·	but again that's according to Industry
8:43	·	insiders not according to NASA not
8:46	·	according to Blue origin not according
8:48	·	to anybody and it would be really nice
8:51	·	to get more information about these
8:54	·	critical missions again especially when
8:56	·	one considers that Millions have not
8:59	·	billions of taxpayer dollarss are being
9:02	·	spent on it we need transparency if
9:05	·	we're talking about these types of
9:07	·	programs yes I totally understand
9:10	·	secrecies surrounding military programs
9:13	·	but for a company that recently received
9:15	·	a multi-billion doll project to put
9:18	·	human beings on the surface of the Moon
9:20	·	for the first time in over 50 years we
9:23	·	need the same level of transparency with
9:26	·	this company and at least with this
9:28	·	particular program as we have with
9:31	·	Boeing and SLS no I don't want them to
9:35	·	run their company the same way that
9:36	·	Boeing does but I would like them to be
9:39	·	just as available to the NASA office of
9:42	·	Inspector General to determine where
9:44	·	they are in the process and whether or
9:46	·	not they might be able to fill in for
9:49	·	SpaceX in in case lunar Starship takes a
9:52	·	bit longer to develop than people are
9:55	·	anticipating indeed it seems that lunar
9:57	·	Starship is definitely heading in that
10:00	·	direction but for right now it seems
10:03	·	that blue origin is content to be as
10:06	·	opaque as they have ever been and NASA
10:09	·	doesn't seem to be holding their feet to
10:11	·	the fire hopefully that changes sometime
10:14	·	soon thank you very much for watching
10:16	·	please don't forget to like And
10:18	·	subscribe and I would like to welcome
10:20	·	new patreon members Andrew G and some
10:24	·	random guy who have contributed to my
10:27	·	efforts to get across the Atlantic to
10:29	·	cover the upcoming crew 99 mission for
10:32	·	NASA and SpaceX really looking forward
10:35	·	to that at the end of September if you
10:37	·	would like to support this endeavor as
10:39	·	well all the details are in the
10:41	·	description thanks again for watching
10:43	·	and as always stay angry about space
10:50	·	[Music]