New Glenn 4 static-fire test blew up on pad.
I hope no one was hurt.
Starship program for comparison has had ~5 full vehicle failures/losses (mostly in 2025: Flights 7, 8, 9, and others involving upper stage explosions, propellant leaks, engine failures, or loss of control).
So it’s expected in one way.
The way $ASTS has mitigated such events introducing delays/frictions is a launch vehicle agnostic satellite and contract with multiple providers worldwide.
Near term multiple booked and planned launches are all with Falcon-9, not New Glenn which was booked a bit later to try and lift 4 satellites and then scale to 6 and 8.
Long term both Blue Origin and AST will continue to produce satellites and upper stages these are the items that limit deployment on the timescale that matters which is a couple of years.
👉It wasn’t the real long term bottlenecks for deployment that took a hit👈
I would advise against rash decisions on your position as this is not a single point of failure nor a gating item for AST, they have signed up with ULA as one example. Abel Avellan quoted saying they have contract with all US launchers at this point.
New Glenn will be back in some time. Back with a bigger stack of their real bottleneck: The disposable upper stages. Which will allow a rapid cadence then.
@internpierre assez bon résumé. N'oubliez pas que tout ce qui est rare est chère. A l'opposé d'une valo boursière. $RACE s'oppose de facto aux souhaits de la clientèle. ça marche un temps et puis le fil casse.
Tu visualises la trajectoire idéale,les bons changements de vitesse pour réaliser le Tour Parfait tout ça pour plafonner à 260km/h en fin de ligne droite
On veut le Pilote et la Monoplace à 100% !
@Erijk_lcz@va20531@0billowGgl Politique de l offre. Tesla n a objectivement que 2 modèles. (3+Y) le marché européen est habitué à la personnalisation. Tesla est en chute aussi pour cette raison.
@lerdvauto Non, mais il n'en reste plus beaucoup. Nous sommes dans l'ère du marketing. Et c'est d'autant plus surprenant que Toyota a tout compris pour la YARIS GR et la GR86 ... après si ça avait été 1750kg avec le moteur de la LFA ...
$ASTS Have a secret to tell you. FM1 has very likely unfurled. Major derisking event.
My guess is the company confirms it Monday or Tuesday. Sorry if you dislike me because of this weekend. I really dgaf.
Up we go.
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