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.

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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  •  zhunk   ( @zhunk@beehaw.org ) 
    1•11 months ago

    a ULA spokesperson said, “The BE-4 testing issue is not expected to impact our plans for the Vulcan Cert-1 mission.”

    That seems impossible to say at this point unless they already know that this explosion is not an engine design or part reliability problem, but rather something like a test equipment or procedural error. If that was the case, why wouldn’t they announce that?