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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket engine explodes during testing (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stevecrox@kbin.social to c/space@kbin.social

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It's a destructive setback with potential ramifications for the company's customer United Launch Alliance as well as Blue Origin's own rocket New Glenn.

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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Losing rockets is nothing new. Musk has lost tons. NASA has probably lost more than both of them put together, just developing the technology to make them reliable in the first place.

Challenger blew up with a whole crew aboard. There's a reason "rocket science" used to be the synonym du jour for anything that was supposed to be hard.

[–] neus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I would say it's in between. It's always 100% better to lose an engine in a test where no lives are at risk.

But to compare the loss to how SpaceX loses rockets is not quite the same. SpaceX is built to iterate on it's rockets in a way it can much easier handle a test failure. Blue origin is much more traditional space development where it can actually be much more impactful when a failure happens. See what stevecrox is saying above.