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• @jeffbezos Jeff Bezos on x

  All personnel are accounted for and safe. It's too early to know the root cause but we're already working to find it. Very rough day, but we'll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It's worth it.

• @nasaspaceflight @nasaspaceflight on x

  Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4. https://www.youtube.com/... [video]

• @nasaadmin @nasaadmin on x

  NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36 involving Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. 

Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult. We will work with

• @blueorigin @blueorigin on x

  We experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire test. All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @visegrad24 Most unfortunate. Rockets are hard.

• @spaceflightnow @spaceflightnow on x

  Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket. Watch live views: https://www.youtube.com/... [video]

• @cl207 @cl207 on x

  initially thought the blue origin detonation was stronger, but after analyzing, it clearly is just deflagration with with several smaller pockets of detonation, creating a shock wave nevertheless, its probably the most powerful rocket failure explosions ever? and it was gorgeous

• @sciguyspace Eric Berger on x

  This completely takes Blue Origin out of the Artemis picture for the next 12 months, most likely. All of those Moon Base missions, man, it's bad.

• @robertgraham Robert Graham on x

  No, if Elon mentions this Blue Origin explosion at all, it will be a supportive statement.

• @erdayastronaut @erdayastronaut on x

  OMMMMMGGGGG!!! That was a very big one. I hate to see set backs in progress. This is not good 😭

• @nasaspaceflight @nasaspaceflight on x

  The explosion has toppled the right-hand lightning protection system tower! It's nowhere to be seen. [video]

• @sawyermerritt Sawyer Merritt on x

  This angle is even crazier [video]

• @signulll @signulll on x

  the blue origin explosion briefly forces people to remember what the baseline actually is. rockets aren't supposed to feel like commercial aviation. they feel that way because spacex spent years turning an extraordinary event into an ordinary one.

• @gedmark John Gedmark on x

  Sorry to see this. We know first hand space is incredibly difficult— there really is nothing quite like it. Shout out Blue Origin for doing the hard things.

• @marcushouse @marcushouse on x

  Massive setback today. Hopefully they can jump through the cause, repairs and upgrades ASAP but this is going to cause a pretty big chunk of downtime for NG missions. The lunar lander isn't going to be flying for quite some time yet. 😢

• @djsnm Scott Manley on x

  If Blue Origin want to confirm how much propellent was on board they can probably claim a record for largest explosion on the space coast.

• @sciguyspace Eric Berger on x

  Based on a handful of sources, this is what I've been able to glean about the New Glenn failure this evening in Florida. TL;DR, it's freaking bad. https://arstechnica.com/...

• @nasaspaceflight @nasaspaceflight on x

  How it looked from our other Cape cams. [video]

• @spaceflightnow @spaceflightnow on x

  Here's the statement from @SLDelta45 about the incident: [image]

• @jconcilus @jconcilus on x

  This is my video of the explosion of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral's pad LC-36 a short time ago. Includes video & audio from roughly 5 miles away near Jetty Park. That was an absolutely enormous explosion! 🤯 Note: Thankfully, Blue says all staff are OK. [vide…

• @creusability @creusability on x

  Colleagues at SpaceX are about to become millionaires while Blue Origin just lost their only pad and likely a lot of contracts. Morale is at an all time low.

• @nasaspaceflight @nasaspaceflight on x

  The sound of the explosion just arrived at our cams miles away. [video]

• @sciguyspace Eric Berger on x

  Blue Origin's return to flight so soon after an upper stage anomaly is seriously impressive. It looks like they're making good on efforts to improve New Glenn cadence. https://arstechnica.com/...

• @djsnm Scott Manley on x

  In the last few days Blue Origin got the green light from the FAA for return to flight, they got multiple Blue Moon contracts for the moon base, and then surprised many people by rolling out the rocket for a launch in the coming week.

• @tobyliiiiiiiiii Toby Li on x

  After Blue Origin's New Glenn anomaly tonight it's hard to not speculate the implications on the Artemis Program. LC-36 is New Glenn's only pad, and tonight's event will likely put Blue out of the race for Artemis III. For reference it took SpaceX 15 months to repair SLC-40

• @repharidopolos Congressman Mike Haridopolos on x

  I've already spoken with @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman regarding the explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket tonight at Cape Canaveral's Space Force Station. I am grateful there were no reported injuries and thankful for the first responders, engineers, and launch crews who acted

• @nbergwx Noah Bergren on x

  BLUE ORIGIN EXPLOSION FACTS: ‣ Launch pad 36 in Cape Canaveral now has had 2 of the largest rocket explosions in U.S. history ‣ In 1965, an Atlas-Centaur exploded on pad at 108 feet tall ‣ 200-300 tons of TNT explosion equivalent ‣ Comparable to 500 tomahawk missiles hitting [vid…

• @sawyermerritt Sawyer Merritt on x

  Woah, this is a big setback for Blue Origin. Gotta feel for the teams

• @sciguyspace Eric Berger on x

  Wow. Not good at all.

• @erdayastronaut @erdayastronaut on x

  The most important thing. Everyone was accounted for!

• @kate_tice @kate_tice on x

  This hurts. I'll never forget the feeling of losing Amos-6 on the pad and my heart goes out to the Blue Origin teams. It's a sad day, but hang in there. You'll root cause and get back to the skies even stronger, soon ❤️‍🩹

• @teortaxestex @teortaxestex on x

  Rockets are hard yes But this is especially bad because Blue Origin has been working with extraordinary caution for a quarter of a century, rejecting Elon-style move-fast-break-things philosophy. They tried to present NG2 as “ok, all systems clear, NOW we accelerate”. Not so fast…

• @djsnm Scott Manley on x

  Sound synchronized from @NASASpaceflight footage [video]

• @djsnm Scott Manley on x

  Happened at exactly 9pm, likely coincident with a planned test event.

• @orbital_perigee @orbital_perigee on x

  Hearing very bad things. If true, Blue Origin is going to have an even worse time than they thought possible.

• @kenkirtland17 Ken Kirtland IV on x

  Long list of negatives here but one silver lining. All the data we could possibly need for defining methane rocket exclusion zones. That is now well defined. So sorry to the Blue Origin teams. Hang in there, you will solve this!

• @robertgraham Robert Graham on x

  A New Glenn rocket has 5.5 GWh of energy (first and second stage). The Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima had 17.5 GWh of energy. The largest non-nuclear blast was Operation Minor Scale (1985) with 4.65 GWh of energy. The largest non-nuclear accidental blast was the Halifax

• @scottlikedsls @scottlikedsls on x

  1 Tower fell down and just LOOK at the wobble on the beefed tower.. [video]

• @ajamesmccarthy Andrew McCarthy on x

  Space is hard. Absolutely gutted for @blueorigin. Hopefully the issue can be identified and the pad can be repaired quickly.

• @yacinemtb Kache on x

  Rough day, but not nearly as rough as the day S3 us-east-1 went down (2017)

• @adriandittmann Adrian Dittmann on x

  Rockets are hard man [video]

• @djsnm Scott Manley on x

  I was excited to see Blue Origin return to flight, but this is a lot worse than the second stage failure, there's towers from the pad visibly missing.

• @ajamesmccarthy Andrew McCarthy on x

  Damaged hardware is just damaged hardware. No question this is a huge setback, but the important thing is safety protocol was followed and nobody was hurt or killed in the explosion.

• @nerdrotics @nerdrotics on x

  Bezos shouldn't have wasted a billion dollars on Rings of Power. That would be more money for safety.

• @nbergwx Noah Bergren on x

  The Blue Origin rocket explosion has shook homes, rang doorbells, and in some ways felt like a mini earthquake, and looked like a nuclear fireball on the Space Coast Thursday evening. The 320+ foot tall rocket is one of the largest rocket explosions in U.S. history. It was fully …

• Ahmad Khorchid Ahmad Khorchid on linkedin

  Blue Origin's New Glenn failure on Thursday night is a reminder of how unforgiving spaceflight remains — even for the best-funded companies. …

• @genejm1017 Gene J. Mikulka on bluesky

  Jeff Bezos on this evening's New Glenn Explosion: “All personnel are accounted for and safe.  It's too early to know the root cause, but we're already working to find it.  Very rough day, but we'll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying.  It's worth it.” x.com/J…

• @mgearsolidarity @mgearsolidarity on bluesky

  Amazon paid themselves 2.7 billion really.  Bezos paid himself.  Also very funny how quick that turnaround was.  [embedded post]

• NewsMax.com NewsMax.com on x

  Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad

• @whitakerta_ @whitakerta_ on x

  Nobody is telling you how FUCKED Blue Origin's entire rocket program just became. Everyone is watching the fireball. The explosion. The shockwave. Nobody is talking about the fact that Blue Origin just destroyed the ONLY pad it has. New Glenn. A 320-foot rocket. Exploded on [vide…

• r/BlueOrigin r on reddit

  The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida

• Valerio D. Gulli Valerio D. Gulli on linkedin

  Safety first.  It is a massive relief to hear that everyone is safe following the explosion.  Last night was undoubtedly a difficult …