When is NG scheduled to try to launch again?

It hasn't been rescheduled yet. I am not familiar with the propellant loading cycle enough to guess when the NET date could be. I assume they lost a lot of O2 and LN2 and likely need to replenish. Does anyone know if LC-36 has commodities piped in from a production site at or near the cape?

Apparently a 48-hour recycle so Wednesday, though nothing official yet. Scott Manley said their 'launch window' closes on the 16th so I am not sure if that is their launch license currently, or something else (probably related to the special orbit they have chosen to shoot for).

If the New Glenn launch attempt is aborted this morning, it likely would necessitate a 48-hour delay (at least). The weather becomes poorer two days from now, and the current launch window closes on January 16. So this may be their only chance for a bit. We'll see.

— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) January 13, 2025

It's also a hydrogen upper stage? Not many folks keep a lot of that sitting around.

Very true! Tanks can only hope to contain liquid Hydrogen for a little while. Are any of the other commodities produced near the cape and piped in?

aTmAg said:

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When is NG scheduled to try to launch again?

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Officially? Soon. Realistically? 2026

ABATTBQ11 said:

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aTmAg said:

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When is NG scheduled to try to launch again?

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Officially? Soon. Realistically? 2026

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Ha even I don't think it will be that long.

They got a good ways down their count down before scrubbing.

PJYoung said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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aTmAg said:

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When is NG scheduled to try to launch again?

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Officially? Soon. Realistically? 2026

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Ha even I don't think it will be that long.

They got a good ways down their count down before scrubbing.

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I admittedly haven't looked much, but have they said yet what caused the delays and eventual scrub last night?

Nothing has been said yet.

I am somewhat surprised they didn't provide any realtime update on issues they were experiencing for resetting T0 so many times. I certainly expected the launch time to shift into the window. Why not divulge? This method of managing expectations seems to do worse for public perception in my opinion.

Icy vent line, according to Berger.

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Icy vent line, according to Berger.

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According to sources, the primary problem was likely ice clogging one of the vent lines that carry pressurized gas away from the vehicle. Several attempts were made to melt the ice, but these efforts were not successful, necessitating the scrub. Hopefully Blue Origin will provide more information about the cause of the scrub in the coming days.

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PJYoung said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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aTmAg said:

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When is NG scheduled to try to launch again?

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Ha even I don't think it will be that long.

They got a good ways down their count down before scrubbing.

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It's obviously a joke, but for real they're like 4-5 years behind their original timeline and a launch has been what feels like perpetually just around the corner. It'll probably be this month or next month, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was way longer.

SPACEX has been burning through the engines in the past week. They were even burning them after the All Quite Hours... $$$$$$$ for the City of McGregor.

TexAgs91 said:

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I'd be semi-rooting for Bezos if he weren't such a ****

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I'm rooting for Blue in spite of Bezos.

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TexAgs91 said:

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I'd be semi-rooting for Bezos if he weren't such a ****

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I'm rooting for Blue in spite of Bezos.

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Yep that's where I'm at.

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SPACEX has been burning through the engines in the past week. They were even burning them after the All Quite Hours... $$$$$$$ for the City of McGregor.

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Speaking of McGregor, my wife's cousin lives in Valley Mills (not far from McGregor. He said Valley Mills is getting ready to start growing - a hayfield across the highway from him was sold for a housing development.

Really? Valley Mills before Clifton, Speegleville, or Meridian!?

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SPACEX has been burning through the engines in the past week. They were even burning them after the All Quite Hours... $$$$$$$ for the City of McGregor.

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Are they the Raptor 3's getting built/tested now?

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Rabid Cougar said:

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SPACEX has been burning through the engines in the past week. They were even burning them after the All Quite Hours... $$$$$$$ for the City of McGregor.

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Are they the Raptor 3's getting built/tested now?

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As of January 2025, 2 Raptor 3 engines have been spotted at McGregor with serial numbers 1 and 4 over the span of 5 months. Numerous firings from Raptor 3 configured stands suggest active and intesive testing of the engine in the devlopment phase and likely of 4 engines due to the probabaly testong of R3s 2 and 3 inbetween however there is no definitive confirmation of this.

The first Raptor 3 engine was spotted on 3 August 2024 at McGregor. On 31 December 2024, NSF's Gary Blair spotted Raptor 3 SN4 on the horizontal test stand at McGregor.

There are some other upstarts, notably Rocketlab that could become a major player over the next 5 years, but we need a few players in the 'space' so to speak/pun intended.

Bezos I would guess would sell out anyway if BO is succesful, and see no reason not to pull for them still despite their history of delays/lawfare (though they tend to act/sound like sips a little too much for my taste). ULA seems resigned to becoming a niche player for gov't launches for a while, imho, and while they have good engineering talent still, I think the culture there won't allow them to innovate their way out of it.

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TexAgs91 said:

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I'd be semi-rooting for Bezos if he weren't such a ****

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I'm rooting for Blue in spite of Bezos.

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Yep that's where I'm at.

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Don't like him either, but I'd much rather him succeed than the Chinese.

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Definitely

ABATTBQ11 said:

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My DXYZ is up about 75%. Can't decide if I should get out or buy more and ride it through the next launch...

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I decided to get out in December at about +50% and glad I did. Even with the launch tomorrow it's been on a steady decline and is below $50 street being in the mid sixties to seventies 3-4 weeks ago.

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My DXYZ is up about 75%. Can't decide if I should get out or buy more and ride it through the next launch...

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I decided to get out in December at about +50% and glad I did. Even with the launch tomorrow it's been on a steady decline and is below $50 street being in the mid sixties to seventies 3-4 weeks ago.

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I wish I had bailed out at 70 a few weeks ago when I considered it. If we have a successful launch tomorrow and it pops again, I am going to get out.

Starship Flight 7 launches tomorrow, provided weather is good https://t.co/elDWqhTb0d

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 14, 2025

They posted the sonic boom advisory. Propellent load only takes 45 minutes now. The window is from 4pm until 5pm.

Personally I think they are probably gonna wait until Thursday since the weather is waaaay better then.

Yeah, weather channel has 25mph winds forecast tomorrow around 4

Nice.

Fun fact: the upgraded Starship will have “more than 30 vehicle cameras giving engineers insight into hardware performance across the vehicle during flight.” That’s a lot of cameras and should make for an exciting show! https://t.co/7NoAosqLO2

— Christian Davenport (@wapodavenport) January 15, 2025

SpaceX live streaming the launch of a Falcon 9 sending 2 lunar landers in ~30 minutes.

Watch Falcon 9 launch @Firefly_Space’s Blue Ghost and @ispace_inc’s RESILIENCE lunar landers to the Moon https://t.co/ZnAGQbLTPy

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 15, 2025

Another successful yeet from the fleet.

Interesting article I found while watching this Falcon 9 rocket liftoff.

If you ever wondered if there is a way to produce oxygen on the moon, well actually there is. The dirt on the moon (called regolith) contains a lot of oxygen. Every 1.43 cubic meters of moon dirt contains about 630 kilograms of oxygen, or roughly 45% of the dirt is oxygen. If you extract this oxygen (from the 1.43 tons of regolith moon dirt) it would produce enough oxygen for a human to breath for almost 2 years! Yeah pretty crazy. Anyway, the article states if you processed the top 30 feet or so of the entire moon Dirt you could produce enough oxygen to supply the 8 billion people on earth oxygen for,close to 100,000 years! Fact of the day!

https://www.inverse.com/science/moon-soil-oxygen

Nifty, apparently not 1, but rather 2 lunar landers launched last night as well:

So cool! https://t.co/lHJJ21xzXM pic.twitter.com/Gsq0WjKTJE

— Robin (@xdNiBoR) January 14, 2025

Only a 60-minute launch window this afternoon:

Starship Flight 7 launches tomorrow, provided weather is good https://t.co/elDWqhTb0d

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 14, 2025

Stream is live https://t.co/vgnvr5kFu2

— Just Jotting Here (@JustJottingHere) January 15, 2025

Thursday for NG:

We’re moving our NG-1 launch to no earlier than Thursday, January 16. The three-hour launch window opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 UTC).

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) January 14, 2025

Look at that view! Blue Ghost is now separated from the launch vehicle and our road trip to the Moon has officially begun! Stay tuned as we look to acquire signal to the lander within the next 30 minutes. #BGM1 https://t.co/q0lnKKQrjG

— Firefly Aerospace (@Firefly_Space) January 15, 2025

SpaceX test flight 7 scrub for today

On for Thursday 4pm

We have received notice that the 7th Starship launch has been postponed until tomorrow, Thursday, January 16th.

The Isla Blanca Park Boat ramp will be open today. pic.twitter.com/ownGFdWGyx

— Eddie Treviño Jr.- Cameron County Judge (@JudgeTrevino) January 15, 2025