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Today’s Twitter links

Today I am beginning a new mid-day feature on Behind the Black, thanks to the effort of reader Jay, who has recently been acting as a stringer by sending me new stories he finds on Twitter. I don’t do Twitter, so his help has been very much appreciated.

Most of these Twitter stories however do not merit a full post. Most are usually just interesting images, or PR updates from companies and space agencies announcing future events. Up to now I check them out, and then file them away. I decided we might as well post them each day, all at once, in a single post. Jay has agreed to gladly help make this happen.

So, let’s begin:

It is unknown how much information China will release much about this launch. Stay tuned.

I will only believe Blue Origin has delivered a flightworthy engine to ULA when ULA actually begins installing that engine on a Vulcan rocket. Until then, I view everything Blue Origin posts on Twitter on this subject to be nothing more than empty air.

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7 comments

  • Skunk Bucket

    I think I might only believe Blue Origin has delivered a flightworthy engine to ULA when a Vulcan rocket reaches MECO with no issues. Yes, space is hard, but this has been a very long and painful development process. If everything they do is run like this, Blue Origin is going to have a tough row to hoe if they want to be a preeminent space company.

  • John

    Twitter is a censoring tech tyrant, a cesspool of bot fueled woke intolerance. No traffic should be sent there, no matter how small. There are alternatives, link to them. Unlike this site, twitter monetizes traffic.

  • David Eastman

    That BE4 looks very busy. If that’s really a flight article, not a test article, then apparently the Blue engineers very much do not believe in Musk’s “the best part is no part” mantra. Even assuming half or two-thirds of that plumbing and wiring is test harness, it’s still more complex than Raptor 1, and massively more complex than Raptor 2.

  • George C

    Why does the tweet call the engine FE1?

  • Jay

    FE1 = Flight Engine #1.

  • Edward

    Skunk Bucket wrote: “If everything they do is run like this, Blue Origin is going to have a tough row to hoe if they want to be a preeminent space company.

    It has been about a year since Bezos left Amazon to turn around Blue Origin. It is generally believed that it can take 18 months for a new person to turn around a company, so we should know by the end of the year whether or not he has been successful.

    It would be nice for Blue Origin to be a competitor for SpaceX, but there are a couple of other companies vying for that privilege.

  • Jeff Wright

    Nozzle cryptids…I see the zipper like from Gimlin Patterson :-P

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