Live stream of first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket-Launch scrubbed!
UPDATE: The company has scrubbed the launch for tonight.
Scheduled for launch at 1 am (Eastern) on January 13, 2025 (with a three hour window), I have embedded the live stream below. On the west coast the launch will occur at 10 pm (Pacific), January 12, 2025. According to Blue Origin, the live stream will go live one hour prior to launch. Based on the company’s past broadcasts, we will have to suffer through a lot of “Gosh! Gee whiz!” Isn’t this great?!” stuff that really ain’t necessary. Maybe Blue Origin will surprise me. If not, come back five minutes before launch to spare yourself this blather.
You see, there is no need for Blue Origin to blather like that. The rocket is spectacular, and it speaks for itself.
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UPDATE: The company has scrubbed the launch for tonight.
Scheduled for launch at 1 am (Eastern) on January 13, 2025 (with a three hour window), I have embedded the live stream below. On the west coast the launch will occur at 10 pm (Pacific), January 12, 2025. According to Blue Origin, the live stream will go live one hour prior to launch. Based on the company’s past broadcasts, we will have to suffer through a lot of “Gosh! Gee whiz!” Isn’t this great?!” stuff that really ain’t necessary. Maybe Blue Origin will surprise me. If not, come back five minutes before launch to spare yourself this blather.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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“spare yourself this blather”
I so hope they actually have something interesting to talk about. Rocket launches should be more blockbuster event rather than navel gazing. Sadly, Blue could learn a bit from the NFL.
My prediction is that when they press the “go” buttons and light the candle, they’ll have a mostly successful mission, most likely reaching orbit, but not landing the booster on the ship. I hope they fail that early enough that they abort the attempt, rather than thinking they’ve got it and taking the ship out with the booster.
But I don’t think it will happen tonight, I expect they’ll run out their launch window before they resolve the inevitable glitches with fueling, sensors, weather, making sure the range is clear…
” Based on the company’s past broadcasts, we will have to suffer through a lot of “Gosh! Gee whiz!” Isn’t this great?!” stuff that really ain’t necessary.”
First 10 minutes into livestream…….boy you called it right. How can two women sound so vapid given their highly placed positions in the organization.
Robert wrote: “According to Blue Origin, the live stream will go live one hour prior to launch.”
The problem with starting an hour in advance is that they have to fill an hour with something. Some of it can be the payload, but in this case they could spend most of it talking about the rocket. The co-host is an engineer who could do just that. I hope that is what she does. It looks like it, so far into the broadcast, but it seems to be with more “gee whiz” emotion than necessary.
Doubting Thomas: You would also think these announcers would watch some SpaceX Starship/Superheavy launches, which in many ways is comparable to this launch. If they did they learned nothing from the experience.
Overall they appear very amateurish. I am sorry to say so, but what their audience wants is detailed information presented calmly. Right now they aren’t doing that. For example, why the launch delay? It isn’t anything to be ashamed of, but they haven’t told us.
I am disappointed that there are no men engineers at Blue Origin. Or if there are, they seem to be completely nonphotogenic and were banned from the launch broadcast.
I am a bit curious why they insist upon landing on their boat at sea rather than perform a return to launch site landing. Do they not have a landing pad at or near the Canaveral Space Force Station?
There is surprisingly little information as to the reasons for the delays in launch, the resetting of the countdown. We are curious, but they are quiet. I hope that at some point they let us hear the mission control status updates as they proceed in the countdown to launch. This is something else that SpaceX does, with their announcers keeping quiet when launch control speaks.
They have told us surprisingly little about the rocket or the launch. Not even the status of propellant loading or anything about how ready the rocket may be.
It seems to me that as the broadcast goes on the announcers are beginning to do a better job. First, they aren’t talking incessantly. Instead, they are allowing long periods go by where nothing is said at all. Second, when they have spoken up recently, it has been to convey actual information about the rocket. And at no point in these recent verbal sessions did anyone use the word “excited!” even once. Thank the Lord.
It would be nice however if they explained the reasons for the countdown delays. It also seems Blue Origin has a different way of rescheduling than other launch operations, as it seems they can add time on to the countdown very easily.
T – 11 minutes.
Edward makes a good point. I am beginning to understand the value of SpaceX 45 minute Live policy. Less time to need to fill up with blather.
To Robert’s point about watching a few SpaceX live streams, I think Blue Origin is loathe to even acknowledge “Brand X”
I think that Blue Origin has a strategy to push hard the payload fairing diameter of 7 meters coupled with the mass to orbit. If SpaceX only had F9 and FH then Blue Origin could make inroads into SpaceX business but Starship seems to be coming down the road with yet another order of magnitude leap in capabilities.
I wish the VP lady would lose the phrase “Ready to Rock & Roll” since the countdown rolled from T-10 minutes to T-29 minutes and then rolled back to T-34 minutes. Going backwards does not meet my definition of rocking and rolling.
So I think since I started watching, the countdown has suddenly popped back up to around T-30 minutes four times now. Which is an odd way of doing it, I’m used to seeing something like “T-10:00 and holding” as opposed to a reset. And of course, the announcers haven’t told us anything, they just blather on about how great this will all be or waste our time giving us bios of various team members.
I repeat, the announcers are definitely doing a better job as we go. They now tell us that the countdown delays is because of some “anomalies” they have detected. It would be nice if they could be more specific.
I take it back. These announcers haven’t the faintest idea how to do their job. It is painful to listen.
They also have not yet run out of videos to play when the clock is set back. They seem to have anticipated launch delays and are prepared to keep their presentation lively with new information.
Meanwhile, it is beginning to be a long night, and I am glad I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. Here’s to hoping there are no more countdown resets and the candle gets lit.
”It would be nice however if they explained the reasons for the countdown delays.”
I just popped in here to find that out. I started the webcast about five minutes before launch to find the clock at T-33 minutes, came back a half hour later to find it at T-38 minutes, and came back an hour and a half after that to find it at T-37 minutes.
Are they really rolling the clock back without explanation? I’m interested, but I’m not watching-two-hours-of-“this-is-history-in-the-making” interested.
PS: Just got another “You’re posting too fast.” error. FYI.
And now I’m being told I have to sign in to YouTube to prove I’m not a bot. I don’t have a YouTube account, so I guess I won’t be watching the launch anyway.
Goodnight everyone.
Oh boy. BO operating as usual “any day now…”
And they are officially standing down for the night. I wish I’d been wrong on my initial prediction, but it was the way to bet.
One quickly tires of the chirpy self-congratulatory cheerleading that tends to dominate Blue Origin webcasts. For that reason, I decided not to watch the official Blue Origin feed after the first ten minutes or so and to switch to Tim Dodd’s (The Everyday Astronaut) feed instead. Even though Ariane Cornell was less insufferable than she tends to be on New Shepard launch webcasts, she still wears on one as time goes on. Tim cut the Blue Origin feed back in a few times but, mercifully, let most of it go and answered questions submitted by viewers on the chat channel accompanying the webcast to fill most of the time until the scrub was finally called. Whenever the launch is rescheduled for, I will simply watch Tim Dodd’s feed from the get-go.