The Rocket Enby

@GuoShenCN7 It had launch facilities that are now destroyed. They have NO CHOICE. They must rebuild pad A. They can abandon pad b modernizing, but they have to rebuild A. They don't have a choice. They cannot lease another pad without fixing this one.

@GuoShenCN7 USSF and NASA pad leases come with a strict agreement to maintain that pad, to modernize that pad, and for that pad to be able to be used to carry USSF payloads, or launch under USSF direction if required for a plantery defense mission. (To defend earth from debris. Not aliens.)

🚨 🚨 BEZOS HAS 3 OPTIONS LEFT AFTER NEW GLENN'S LAUNCHPAD EXPLOSION. ALL 3 ARE CATASTROPHIC. This is the moment nobody wants to talk about. After years of development, a $1B+ heavy-lift rocket program, and a final ground test before Amazon's Kuiper satellite mission → Blue Origin is now boxed into THREE choices. And every single one is a nightmare: ⚠️ OPTION 1: REBUILD LC-36 FROM SCRATCH – The only launchpad Blue Origin owns is now a debris field – One 600-foot lightning tower toppled. Erector-gantry: gone. Ground equipment: destroyed. – Pad rebuilds after a full vehicle explosion take 12–24 months minimum – Amazon's Kuiper constellation — already years behind SpaceX Starlink — falls further behind – Every month of delay costs Amazon market share it cannot get back ⚠️ OPTION 2: BORROW OR BUY LAUNCH CAPACITY FROM A COMPETITOR – The only competitor with available heavy-lift pads is SpaceX – Asking your direct rival for a launchpad is not a business negotiation — it's a surrender – SpaceX has every incentive to slow-walk, overcharge, or simply say no – Amazon would be funding the company that is actively destroying Kuiper's market window – Jeff Bezos built Blue Origin specifically to avoid this dependency ⚠️ OPTION 3: ABSORB THE DELAY AND KEEP INVESTING – New Glenn's first stage was enveloped in fire during a routine hotfire test — the final check before orbital flight – The vehicle collapsed. The upper stage tilted and fell. Fires burned at multiple stories – This wasn't a launch failure. This was a ground test. The hardest problems haven't even been attempted yet. – Blue Origin has no second pad, no backup vehicle, and no timeline for the next attempt – And Starlink already has 7,000+ satellites in orbit Let that sink in. There is no Option 4. There is no clean exit. There is no "we rebuild and catch up by Q4." The media is showing you "rocket science is hard" and "no injuries reported." They're NOT showing you that Blue Origin just destroyed its only launchpad — the single piece of infrastructure that connects years of development to an actual orbital mission — three hours before midnight on May 28, 2026. This is the most consequential single test failure any American space company has faced since SpaceX's Pad 40 explosion in 2016. Follow now → this story is moving fast. RT so others see what's really at stake. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

@3FSolutions_VSC @BladeoftheS Well. Elons test craft do explode all the time. His mature craft fail rarely. NG is a mature craft. Note that falcon 1 exploded often. So did the first 9s. Elon also lost a craft on a Florida pad at the moment of static fire in 2016. 39a was damaged. But not this badly.

@BladeoftheS Elons rarely blow up. If you refer to the last one landing in the ocean. Well that was intentional. Did you not see the SpaceX team happy reaction? Plus, Elon now has it all in his hands. Bezos will have to carry on paying him to send up any satellites at a premium I hope

It's not just Elon Musk's rockets that blow up, so do Jeff Bezos'. The billionaires need to be taxed so they can't build their own personal exploding spacebombs. Otherwise we will never be safe.

@omarttamo @BladeoftheS So, NG isn't a test vehicle. It's not like SS. It's a mature vehicle. It shouldn't blow up. Ever. It's like NASA craft. They don't launch test craft, only mature craft. Also, the be-4 in the Vulcan failed too... meaning something it's probably be-4, not NG itself.

@BladeoftheS Their companies are building advanced reusable rockets to advance humanity into a space faring civilization. Shit happens and rockets blowing up is part of the process. Morons!!

@BladeoftheS @endthebeeb Was this at the moment of static fire? I was under the assumption this was before the actual ignite. As ina bigger failure.

@endthebeeb This is the most common way for rockets to blow up, the stress on the engine and the frame is largest right as it starts. If there is a single fault it blows up like this.

@DJSnM @BCCarCounters I wonder if when Starship lost an engine forcing it to use engine down capability if it wasn't able to choose the best engine for landing like it's supposed to because it was already down and engine so it didn't have an option between three engines and throttling down weakest

@DJSnM Accidental. Appears to be a subnominal engine flare before soft touchdown. @BCCarCounters , what do you think?

That pirouette at the end may win style points but surely it’ll make it hard to catch.

@DJSnM @BCCarCounters I think I spot a green tint to a flare in the up skirt part of this video.

@Sewattube @RainshadowPass @bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 F9 team. They did intend on making their own way to land it. It was stupid. So they asked the f9 team for the beacon tech. Iirc, the beacon is one of the only techs shared between the two rockets (other than starlink related things).

@Sewattube @RainshadowPass @bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 This is the exact same mech they will use to land. It's no different. It's using a beacon. The same tech falcon 9 uses. They can land it with mm precision because it's coming to its homing beacon... It's not new tech. They can land it on a dime because the tech is from the

Starship exploded. Again. Like it always explodes. It explodes because it's a dead-end design. SpaceX will never reach the moon. SpaceX will never reach Mars. SpaceX sets the US space program back every day we foolishly decide to rely on it.

@RainshadowPass @Sewattube @bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 Yep. This. People forget this lmao

@Sewattube @RocketEnby @bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 *All orbital velocity starship launches Back in the day they did a few tests of the bellyflop maneuver from well inside the atmosphere and recovered the ship. They haven’t tried that with an orbital starship yet. The FAA wouldn’t even let them try that on this run.

@JWC7215C @bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 The green puff is from the copper lining. It burns off, in a green puff.

@JWC7215C @bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 Btw, it's extremely clear to me after watching EVERY launch and test EVER that boosters problem didn't start at sep. One of the shots from the ground up to the booster right after launch shows a puff of green tinted smoke. This means only one thing: a raptor ate itself.

@JWC7215C @bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 Booster can function without multiple raptors and ship has raptor down ability. They relit engines and deployed dummy sat. That was mission goal. Since mission goal is achieved, it's a success.

@RainshadowPass @bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 It's a homing radio beacon, it calls ship or booster to the exact landing spot. The camera bouy is also a beacon bouy, ship lands where it's told. V3 flip had to be over water for 1st attempt per faa for safety. I think next mission is a double RTLS? But maybe not.

@RainshadowPass @bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 We've recovered BOTH boosters & ships, actually. And engines. And have flown with flight tested 2.0s. We don't need to test recovery. RTLS is sx's specialty. It's not a new tech, starship doesn't use a new method of finding it's landing spot. They use the falcon beacon

@bikesalsa @MustacheBob2 This wasn't an explosion and this post is lying to you. This is what's called expending the rocket. Most rockets are expended in space. This was planned. This is a full success. Soft touch down after a flip. It was literally perfect. Booster failed badly, tho.

@MustacheBob2 Oh my god. Again? Holy shit.

@HealthRanger We don't reuse starships currently, and we've already perfected landing. This was a perfect approach with a perfect attitude that slowed down perfectly with a perfect soft touch. 🤷🏼 It was perfect. Booster, however, failed. Badly. And you could tell from ignight

Why are they cheering? Do they realize that if it blows up, you can't reuse it?