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anon user #8647Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
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anon user #8647Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Blue Origin’s New Glenn mega-rocket just exploded during testing at a launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, according to a live stream from NASASpaceFlight.com. Blue Origin later confirmed the explosion.
Jeff Bezos’ space company was performing a static fire test ahead of an anticipated fourth launch of the new rocket in the coming weeks. Blue Origin said in an X post Thursday evening that “[a]ll personnel have been accounted for.” The company didn’t say what went wrong, only that an “anomaly” occurred. NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Space Force did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The explosion likely means Blue Origin will have to pause the New Glenn rocket program for an extended period of time while it works through what went wrong. Blue Origin had been planning to attempt as many as 12 launches of New Glenn this year, after the company spent around a decade developing it in an attempt to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The company is also supposed to help power NASA’s Artemis missions to the moon, with the agency highlighting Blue Origin’s expected role in that program earlier this week.
“Most unfortunate. Rockets are hard,” Elon Musk wrote on X shortly after the explosion.
The explosion comes just a few weeks after Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket flew for the third time ever. That mission suffered its own failure when the New Glenn upper stage failed to deliver a satellite for AST SpaceMobile into orbit, causing a total loss of the mission. Just last week, the FAA cleared New Glenn to fly again after Blue Origin completed an investigation into the cause of the failure.
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anon user #8647Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
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Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Trump is such a winner
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GameraRe: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
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OK
Who farted?
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Success! Think about all they've learned!
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Old Werner would be proud!
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SamplesBoiRe: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Fake.
And gay.
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SamplesBoiRe: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Jeff couldn't leave all the explosion fun to Elon.
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Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Gamera wrote:
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2060170321383059562
That'll buff right out.
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Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Shoulda stuck with the old Glenn.
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SamplesBoiRe: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Strange. 6.5 seconds in I see a shockwave. That looks like an actual detonation.
Can a mixture of liquid natural gas and liquid oxygen actually detonate as opposed to just deflagrate?
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Yes. A sufficiently well-mixed combination of liquid natural gas (LNG) and liquid oxygen (LOX) can transition from ordinary burning (deflagration) to true detonation under the right conditions.
A few key points make this different from normal methane-air fires:
LNG is mostly methane, and methane–oxygen mixtures are highly energetic.
LOX is a much stronger oxidizer than air because it is nearly pure oxygen.
Cryogenic liquids can form dense vapor clouds and sometimes aerosolized droplets, which can dramatically increase reaction rates.
In practice, the important distinction is usually between:
Pool fire / deflagration
Most accidental LNG releases burn this way.
Flame speeds are subsonic.
Pressure rise is relatively modest unless confined.
Detonation
A supersonic shock-driven combustion wave.
Produces very high overpressures.
Requires favorable conditions: proper fuel–oxidizer ratio, sufficient mixing, confinement or turbulence, and an initiation mechanism strong enough to trigger detonation.
Methane–oxygen mixtures absolutely can detonate in gaseous form. This is well established in propulsion systems and explosion science. In fact, methane/LOX is used as a rocket propellant combination by companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, though rocket engines operate in controlled combustion rather than uncontrolled detonation.
The subtle question is whether the liquid mixture itself detonates. Pure cryogenic liquids are usually not as sensitive as classic high explosives, but under some circumstances:
rapid vaporization,
aerosol formation,
partial premixing,
confinement,
shock loading,
can create conditions where a detonation wave propagates through the vapor/liquid mixture.
Historically, LOX mixed with hydrocarbons has produced catastrophic detonations:
LOX + asphalt,
LOX + kerosene,
LOX + organic contaminants,
methane/oxygen vapor clouds.
There are also phenomena like vapor cloud explosions and rapid phase-transition effects that can blur the line between “liquid explosion” and “gas-phase detonation.”
So the short answer is:
Yes, methane/oxygen systems can detonate.
A mixed LNG–LOX system is potentially detonable and far more dangerous than LNG-air alone.
Whether a specific spill or mixture deflagrates or detonates depends strongly on geometry, mixing, confinement, turbulence, temperature, and ignition conditions.
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Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Next time they need to tie several thousand libfilth vermin to the rocket, like the stupid afghans climbing on a transport plane about to take off.
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Trifectas on Cape Canaveral? Who knew?
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Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Rich bastard gets fuqed by science.
Win
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Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
The view from Orlando
https://x.com/ItsAlexQuinn/status/2060198211281698908
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Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
SamplesBoi wrote:
Jeff couldn't leave all the explosion fun to Elon.
Jeff has a problem: Blue Origin doesn't have a second launch pad.
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Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
wrote:
OK
Who farted?
Just order another rocket on Amazon.
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Re: Blue Origin rocket just exploded during launch prep
Well done, please:
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2060184787734720973
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Wow, turns out this may be the largest non-nuclear explosion, ever!
https://x.com/robertgraham/status/2060182250428281090
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The view from Tampa. You'd think AU3 would have been roasted alive:
https://x.com/radiolassi/status/2060334723033915831
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