New Glenn rocket has EXPLODED into a MASSIVE fireball on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral

[rmc51]

JUST NOW: Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket has EXPLODED into a MASSIVE fireball on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral in Florida It literally looks like a NUCLEAR BOMB went off.
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/just-now-jeff-bezos-new-glenn-rocket-has-exploded-into-a-massive-fireball-on-the-launchpad-at-cape-canaveral-in-florida-it-literally-looks-like-a-nuclear-bomb-went-off-elonmusk-responded/

Quote:
ElonMusk responded: “Most unfortunate. Rockets are hard.” Insane to watch.

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/2060170680604168319

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes on launch pad in Florida
By William Harwood
Updated on: May 29, 2026
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-explodes-launchpad-florida/

Does not surprise me! Amazon cannot get a package delivered correctly 50% of the time, why would you think that they can launch a rocket.




 
Be careful, Be ready, Be prepared.
Buy ammo

[mountaineer]

Thankfully, it appears no one was injured.

[Wingnut]

Jeff should leave rocketry to the experts and stick to next day delivery of Amazon Packages.

Quote:
Elon Musk responded: “Most unfortunate. Rockets are hard.”

[Idiot]

JUST NOW: Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket has EXPLODED into a MASSIVE fireball on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral in Florida It literally looks like a NUCLEAR BOMB went off.
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/just-now-jeff-bezos-new-glenn-rocket-has-exploded-into-a-massive-fireball-on-the-launchpad-at-cape-canaveral-in-florida-it-literally-looks-like-a-nuclear-bomb-went-off-elonmusk-responded/

Quote:
ElonMusk responded: “Most unfortunate. Rockets are hard.” Insane to watch.

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/2060170680604168319

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes on launch pad in Florida
By William Harwood
Updated on: May 29, 2026
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-explodes-launchpad-florida/

Does not surprise me! Amazon cannot get a package delivered correctly 50% of the time, why would you think that they can launch a rocket.




 
Be careful, Be ready, Be prepared.
Buy ammo

They'll have to rebuild their pad and do some redesigning of their rocket.  This will set them back a year at least.

[BobfromWB]

They'll have to rebuild their pad and do some redesigning of their rocket.  This will set them back a year at least.

Its our pad, they lease it. The set back will be at LEAST a year, maybe more, which in turn sets their role in Artemis III back years.

2030 US lunar landing seems out of the question now, given that SpaceX's Starship has not achieved orbit, not refueled in LEO etc [ currently grounded like Blue Origin ].

Neither company has a working lander - the most difficult part of the mission.

They are likely 10 years away from any landing on the Lunar South Pole, more from a colony.

Meanwhile, the Chinese continue on time and are now seemingly further along for a 2030 landing then the US.

China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: 'We will spare no effort'
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/china-shakes-up-its-space-programs-to-land-astronauts-on-the-moon-by-2030-we-will-spare-no-effort

FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after Flight 12
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/faa-grounds-spacexs-starship-v3-megarocket-after-flight-12-mishap

Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons? [ one of the first announced projects for the Chinese lunar base ]
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/companies-like-spacex-want-electromagnetic-catapults-on-the-moon-could-they-be-used-as-weapons

Excerpt:

First-strike platform
Mass drivers on the moon would operate largely outside existing early warning and attribution architectures, thereby complicating detection and response by existing early warning systems.

Weaponized mass driver payloads, the report suggests, could likely fall into one of three categories:

    Kinetic Energy Impactor (KEI) - inert projectiles designed to slam into targets at high speeds;

    Satellite & Anti-Satellite (SAT/ASAT) - spacecraft or satellites designed to destroy, disrupt or degrade other spacecraft;

    Nuclear Reentry Vehicle (RV) - payloads similar to those found on intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear warheads from space.

A lunar mass driver could also be used to rapidly launch space-based missile defense systems such as those envisioned by the Trump administration's recent Golden Dome concept.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Looks like Elon Musk maintains his lead in the kleptocratic oligarch "rocket" measuring contest.

[Idiot]

Its our pad, they lease it. The set back will be at LEAST a year, maybe more, which in turn sets their role in Artemis III back years.

2030 US lunar landing seems out of the question now, given that SpaceX's Starship has not achieved orbit, not refueled in LEO etc [ currently grounded like Blue Origin ].

Neither company has a working lander - the most difficult part of the mission.

They are likely 10 years away from any landing on the Lunar South Pole, more from a colony.

Meanwhile, the Chinese continue on time and are now seemingly further along for a 2030 landing then the US.

China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: 'We will spare no effort'
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/china-shakes-up-its-space-programs-to-land-astronauts-on-the-moon-by-2030-we-will-spare-no-effort

FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after Flight 12
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/faa-grounds-spacexs-starship-v3-megarocket-after-flight-12-mishap

Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons? [ one of the first announced projects for the Chinese lunar base ]
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/companies-like-spacex-want-electromagnetic-catapults-on-the-moon-could-they-be-used-as-weapons

Excerpt:

First-strike platform
Mass drivers on the moon would operate largely outside existing early warning and attribution architectures, thereby complicating detection and response by existing early warning systems.

Weaponized mass driver payloads, the report suggests, could likely fall into one of three categories:

    Kinetic Energy Impactor (KEI) - inert projectiles designed to slam into targets at high speeds;

    Satellite & Anti-Satellite (SAT/ASAT) - spacecraft or satellites designed to destroy, disrupt or degrade other spacecraft;

    Nuclear Reentry Vehicle (RV) - payloads similar to those found on intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear warheads from space.

A lunar mass driver could also be used to rapidly launch space-based missile defense systems such as those envisioned by the Trump administration's recent Golden Dome concept.

Spacex innovates at an amazing pace.  They'll likely launch Flight 13 in the next month or so.  We drove down for flight 11 and it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen.  Plus being able to drive just a few hundred feet from the vehicle on the pad was unreal.

[Smokin Joe]

Well, Jeff. It is rocket science.

I hope no one was injured.

[Smokin Joe]

Its our pad, they lease it. The set back will be at LEAST a year, maybe more, which in turn sets their role in Artemis III back years.

2030 US lunar landing seems out of the question now, given that SpaceX's Starship has not achieved orbit, not refueled in LEO etc [ currently grounded like Blue Origin ].

Neither company has a working lander - the most difficult part of the mission.

They are likely 10 years away from any landing on the Lunar South Pole, more from a colony.

Meanwhile, the Chinese continue on time and are now seemingly further along for a 2030 landing then the US.

China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: 'We will spare no effort'
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/china-shakes-up-its-space-programs-to-land-astronauts-on-the-moon-by-2030-we-will-spare-no-effort

FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after Flight 12
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/faa-grounds-spacexs-starship-v3-megarocket-after-flight-12-mishap

Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons? [ one of the first announced projects for the Chinese lunar base ]
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/companies-like-spacex-want-electromagnetic-catapults-on-the-moon-could-they-be-used-as-weapons

Excerpt:

First-strike platform
Mass drivers on the moon would operate largely outside existing early warning and attribution architectures, thereby complicating detection and response by existing early warning systems.

Weaponized mass driver payloads, the report suggests, could likely fall into one of three categories:

    Kinetic Energy Impactor (KEI) - inert projectiles designed to slam into targets at high speeds;

    Satellite & Anti-Satellite (SAT/ASAT) - spacecraft or satellites designed to destroy, disrupt or degrade other spacecraft;

    Nuclear Reentry Vehicle (RV) - payloads similar to those found on intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear warheads from space.

A lunar mass driver could also be used to rapidly launch space-based missile defense systems such as those envisioned by the Trump administration's recent Golden Dome concept.

The potential of Space, and bases on the moon (and Mars) has long been known in the annals of science fiction. More recently, in The Expanse (available, ironically, on Amazon Prime) the use of guided asteroids as kinetic weapons was part of the plot. Thank Bill Clinton, without whose deals with the Chinese, they could not even get to orbit.

[Elderberry]

Despite Blue Origin explosion, SpaceX knocks out launch, ULA still to go today

Miami Herald By Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel 5/29/2026

Even though Blue Origin suffered a massive explosion of its New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night, two other launch providers pushed forward with missions Friday on the Space Coast.

 First up was SpaceX with a Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-53 mission carrying 29 Starlink satellites from Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40 launching at 8:57 a.m.

The first-stage booster flew for the 16th time and made a recovery landing downrange in the Atlantic on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.

Then on Friday evening, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V is set to lift off on the Amazon Leo 7 mission with 29 satellites for Amazon's growing broadband internet constellation headed for low-Earth orbit launching from Space Launch Complex 41 during a window that runs from 7:33-8:02 p.m.

Of note, after this launch, ULA will have only seven more Atlas V rockets available, with one set aside for its final Amazon mission and the rest contracted to fly Boeing Starliner spacecraft.

The two launch complexes are on the north end of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station while Blue Origin's Launch Complex 36 is on the south end of the complex more than 6 miles away. The first stage of its New Glenn rocket was on the pad Thursday night for a static fire test, during which the rocket would light its engines while locked down to the pad. The 9 p.m. incident saw the rocket hardware engulfed in a massive fireball destroying it and damaging much of the launch pad.

More: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article315937362.html