Abdiel 🚀

Building a Road to Space 🚀🛰✨🚝| @BlueOrigin #NewGlenn Launch Engineer 🇵🇷 | *Expressions are my own* *Like/Share ≠ Endorsement* Frmr: @NASAGroundSys

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

Words can’t express what I had the chance to experience yesterday. Incredibly grateful to have been one of the Launch Controllers for this mission.

Here’s to all who made it happen and got me to where i am today. A new era has just begun @blueorigin 🚀

[NASA @NASA]

"Artemis III is an incredibly exciting, complicated, and highly coordinated multi-launch campaign. It’s going to happen in a short period of time with three of the world’s most powerful rockets."

Artemis lead Jeremy Parsons describes exactly what Artemis III will entail.

[Dave Limp @davill]

True to its name, Never Tell Me The Odds has safely returned to Rocket Park.

[Dave Limp @davill]

Progress continues at LC-36. Starting to move GS2s from the Integration Facility to Rocket Park as we clean up and rebuild the pad. A couple more GS2s and Never Tell Me The Odds to follow. Great work, Team Blue.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

One week later, incredible progress. It’s a 24/7 operation with a solid path forward to launch this year, helped by a lot of luck. @NASA and @USSpaceForce have both been extremely helpful.

This team. Never tell them the odds.

[Dave Limp @davill]

Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.

I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.

We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

Latest:

[Dave Limp @davill]

We have regained some access to Launch Complex 36 and are actively investigating the hotfire anomaly. We will start clearing the pad soon and have a good rebuild plan in place. The booster and GS2’s in the integration facility appear healthy from quick looks.

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

Thank you @NASAAdmin, @davill @JeffBezos for the kind words today to the workforce. Looking forward to rebuilding this and coming out stronger and better. 🚀

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy.

Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead.

There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems.

We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes.

@NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible.

America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸

[Kiko Dontchev @TurkeyBeaver]

Couldn’t agree more with Shana. Thinking about the entire team at Blue. We’ve been there before and there are very few things worse than losing a vehicle on the pad. Remember @blueorigin, it’s the darkest before the dawn and you will be measured not by this anomaly, but by how you respond. We are all rooting for you to get safely back to flight as soon as possible!

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

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

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

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.

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

Up next! 🚀

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

🚀 Launch Alert | New Glenn's fourth launch will send 48 @AmazonLeo satellites into low Earth orbit as part of their growing broadband constellation. More details to come soon.

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

The fleet is growing!

[Dave Limp @davill]

This is getting out of hand.  Now there are two of them!

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

Welcome back to the Space Coast, again, "Never Tell Me The Odds."

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

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[The Daily Hopper @daily_hopper]

Second Stage Blues

#space #newglenn #blueorigin #spacex

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

Space is hard, we’ll learn from this one to be better on the next one 🚀

[Dave Limp @davill]

Now that we have a more complete view, we wanted to provide an update on our NG-3 mission. While we are pleased with the nominal booster recovery, we clearly didn't deliver the mission our customer wanted, and our team expects. Early data suggest that on our second GS2 burn, one of the BE-3U engines didn’t produce sufficient thrust to reach our target orbit. Blue Origin is leading the anomaly investigation with FAA oversight to learn from the data and implement the improvements needed to quickly return to flight operations. We have been in steady communication with the team at AST SpaceMobile, we appreciate their partnership, and we’re looking forward to many flights together.

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

It’s go time! Let’s do this! 🚀

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

LIVE NOW: Tune in to watch the NG-3 webcast!
https://t.co/n8WKJoiH8s

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

It’s official!

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

🚀 Launch Alert | We're targeting New Glenn's third launch no earlier than Sunday, April 19, 2026, from LC-36. The two-hour launch window opens at 6:45 a.m. / 10:45 UTC. NG-3 will send @AST_SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite to low Earth orbit. Learn more: https://t.co/VbJEptXWG7

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

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[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

✅ NG-3 integrated hotfire complete.

[Abdiel 🚀 @NASA8500]

Just trying to be courteous here 😂

[The Daily Hopper @daily_hopper]

Somehow still relevant, one year later!

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

Melt. Extract. Fuel. Repeat. 🚀

To build an affordable, sustainable presence on the Moon, we must learn to live off the land. Air Pioneer is a scalable, modular system that creates purified oxygen to reduce dependency on supplies from Earth. Using Moon-extracted oxygen for propellant, fuel cells, and breathing reduces our lunar landers’ load by many metric tons of mass. Launching less mass from Earth lowers the cost of our Moon base, fueling a future cislunar economy. 🌕