Stage 1 landing confirmed!

Edit: M-vac shutdown, nominal orbit insertion.

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

Liftoff!

Webcast is live. Vandenberg is foggy, as usual.

Jonathan McDowell: https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3lqhxqn746k2s

LAUNCH at about 1339 UTC May 31 of New Shepard flight NS-32 on a suborbital flight carrying 6 tourists. Based on the webcast data looks like apogee might have been a couple km lower than usual, at 103 km AGL. Flight time was 10m 1s.

I’m not sure that it would. Regarding other groups developing reusable launch vehicles, he’s said “do it” on multiple occasions.

Yuanxingzhe-1 will be in a similar category to Falcon 9, and SpaceX are already developing Starship, which would put Falcon 9 out of business if fully reusable.

Also, the Chinese and western launch markets don’t currently overlap that much, so Chinese launch vehicles don’t pose as much of a threat as those from Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, or Stoke.

UWU

Ah, we’ve arrived at the bee saga…

Wow, that’s awesome; thanks for sharing!

Minute Earth’s Tree of Life Explorer is a similar project that I also like: https://labs.minutelabs.io/Tree-of-Life-Explorer/#/

Is that Opus looking out the window? Does he work at The Bloom Beacon too?

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3lqg2chf2f22r

#Falcon9 fairing halves of #GPS III SV08

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3lqfpr67zys26

#Falcon9 fairing halves of #Starlink 10-32

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3lqf3oerums2h

#Falcon9 fairing halves of #Starlink 17-1

Starbase activities (2025-05-30):

• May 28th addendum: Test Tank 17 performs its first cryo load at Massey’s. (Video 1, Video 2)
• May 29th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• At Massey’s, S37 performs a full cryo load test on both tanks. (ViX, Hardcore Electric 1, Hardcore Electric 2)
• Cleanup at the former site of the Highbay continues, refurbishment of Pad A begins. (D Wise)

Flight 9:

• The FAA require a mishap investigation, but focused only on the loss of Starship. (Beil 1, FAA (archived))

Ah yes, I spy Top Banana, Toasted Marshmallow, Plum, Cantaloupe, and… hey, wait a minute, those aren’t jelly beans…

Huh, is this the Schroeder? I never knew he started off so much younger than Charlie Brown.

No thoughts. Head empty.

A couple days ago, I overfilled a glass and spilled a portion of the contents while transporting it.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/fake-asiana-pilot-names

While reporting on the crash during their noon newscast on July 12th, Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU co-anchor Tori Campbell reported that the names of the pilots on board were “Sum Ting Wong,” “Wi Tu Lo,” “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow.”

On the evening of July 12th, the NTSB issued an apology via press release noting that a summer intern had acted on his own authority by confirming the fake names, and asserted that appropriate action would be taken to assure a similar error would not happen again.

As far as I know, the identity of the intern remains undisclosed.

SES-2, SECO-2, and payload deployment confirmed.

Deployment of GPS III-7 payload confirmed