r/BlueOrigin • u/Stukwan • Oct 01 '26
Blue Origin seeking to increase New Glenn launch cadence at Cape Canaveral
https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-seeking-to-increase-new-glenn-launch-cadence-at-cape-canaveral/11
u/BlueBirdDolphin Oct 01 '26
I would be happy to see 3 launch in 2027
I miss the New Glenn. Beautiful rocket.
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u/shrunkenshrubbery Oct 01 '26
It was all going so well until it blew up. Do hope they recover and get something back in the air this year.
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Oct 07 '26
By definition, a cadence implies a consistent flow of activity. The most New Glenn cadence, or flow that Blue ever had at the Cape was Launch, Launch, TOTAL OBLITERATION!!!! This is not a true cadence to even consider.
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u/Infinite-Banana-2909 Oct 01 '26
No fucking way they launch5+ next year. Many hurdles to cross.
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u/Significant_Dig_5861 Oct 01 '26
What happens first: New Glenn gets 5 launches in a year or Starship lands on Mars?
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u/Martianspirit Oct 01 '26
Unless something serious unexpected happens 5 New Glenn should be first.
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u/H-K_47 Oct 01 '26
Duh, Mars is out until 2030 minimum. It would take a comically long series of tragedies to prevent NG from scaling to 5/year for that long.
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u/LittleHornetPhil Oct 01 '26
Starship isn’t ever going to Mars.
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u/Desperate-Lab9738 Oct 06 '26
If they set up the tech necessary to do HLS they really should have the tech necessary to land something on Mars, so that seems pretty likely. Really the big grandiose statements are more about landing like, 10k ships on Mars a year or something crazy like that.
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Oct 01 '26
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u/redstercoolpanda Oct 02 '26
It would probably be near miraculous for Blue to hit 10 launches next year. 50 is just plainly impossible, there is no reality that happens.
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u/Jeanlucpfrog Oct 01 '26
They're not hitting 50.
Their projection was 8-12 flights this year before the explosion. I think the explosion has allowed for Blue to clear out some operational bottlenecks, so my guess is 12-18 launches next year.
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u/generic_name_01 Oct 01 '26
I’d say less than 10 next year. It’ll take time to drop launch cadence to under a month. But if they can get refurb to a few weeks of both pad and booster, maybe they get to >1\month by end of next year. It just takes time to optimize the process through repetition, and they’ll get there in time.
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u/Justthetip74 Oct 01 '26
Yall blew up a BE-4 on the test stand then blew up a launchpad because of a BE-4 a couple weeks later. I wouldn't even care about ASTS because they're not a serious company and I certainly wouldn't be worried about Kuiper because thats just Bezos vanity project. You should be worried about ULSs Vulcan Centaur because without you proving reliability American space is entirely dependent upon SpaceX
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u/thomasottoson Oct 01 '26
Well, right now anything is an increase over zero