OT: Blue Origin explosion

[BoDawg.sixpack]

Not a crewed launch. Had been awarded a contract recently for moon base supply missions. Will probably take a year to rebuild the infrastructure that was just destroyed.

 

[FormerBully]

This is just a reminder to the balls astronauts have. You are sitting on top of 2,500 tons of dynamite!

 

[Shmuley]

Whoops.

 

[T-TownDawgg]

“Unscheduled disassembly”

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Looks like me when the wife wears something to bed other than the moo-moo

 

[patdog]

Not a crewed launch. Had been awarded a contract recently for moon base supply missions. Will probably take a year to rebuild the infrastructure that was just destroyed.

Holy crap!

 

[patdog]

This is just a reminder to the balls astronauts have. You are sitting on top of 2,500 tons of dynamite!

I’m really concerned we’re going to kill another crew of astronauts with what NASA is planning the next decade or so.

 

[HotMop]

 

[FormerBully]

I’m really concerned we’re going to kill another crew of astronauts with what NASA is planning the next decade or so.

It is coming, it is the risk we take. It blows my mind we have never lost anyone in space. Of the 19 to die all happen during launch or re-entry.

 

[Dawgzilla2]

Two chemical plant incidents on the West coast today, a gas explosion at a Dallas apartment, and the Blue Origin explosion. All in one day.

Chemistry seems to have declared war on us.

 

[patdog]

Looks like SoaceX had a pretty bad test flight this week too & is grounded by FAA until investigation into “anomalies” is complete.

https://www.astronomy.com/space-exp...bxY7QF3W8muDEHJiqQ_aem_myrDJLN0DMOudKQ_cUg12Q

 

[tbaydog]

Elon and or Donald was not around, were they?

 

[RocketDawg]

I can hear Blue Origin testing engines on Redstone many nights. So far, they've not had an explosion on the test stand, so the issue must have been somewhere other than the engine itself. Maybe a LOX or methane connection came loose, or something of the sort.

 

[Maroon Pug]

The company I work for is close to Blue Origin in HSV and when I drove by this morning it looked like a kicked hornet's nest. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that facility today.

 

[RocketDawg]

The company I work for is close to Blue Origin in HSV and when I drove by this morning it looked like a kicked hornet's nest. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that facility today.

Yes, it's probably chaotic there today. Hope they make it through this.

 

[patdog]

I can hear Blue Origin testing engines on Redstone many nights. So far, they've not had an explosion on the test stand, so the issue must have been somewhere other than the engine itself. Maybe a LOX or methane connection came loose, or something of the sort.

Apparently they just destroyed their only launch pad at the Cape. They may be out of action for a long time.

 

[RocketDawg]

Apparently they just destroyed their only launch pad at the Cape. They may be out of action for a long time.

It's certainly not going to enhance their competition with SpaceX. Rebuild can be done fairly quickly though - pretty sure the pad that SpaceX used last week for the Starship launch in Texas was built from the ground up in less than a year.

 

[RocketDawg]

Here are pictures of what's left of LC 36: https://www.facebook.com/wesh2news/...complex-36-at-cape-canavera/1028603249681593/