It’s so disappointing. Now the next person to write valid, honest critiques will have to overcome this author’s selfishness to get attention.

Berger suggests that “another launch before this summer seems unlikely”.

I think that’s speculation rather than reporting, but it’s nice to have a non-CEO reference point. Hopefully employees get a breather during this redesign, somehow.

Technology is so fun… Thanks for putting this in perspective!

Am I correct that this would allow someone to remotely attack everything on my network, even non-ESP devices? So, my ESP lightbulb is putting my PC and phone at risk?

I’m struggling to think of a reason that Starship shouldn’t be grounded for 6-12 months after this (I know they won’t be, but I’ll be mad about it). This is a consecutive uncontrolled failure during the “easy” part of the flight over a highly populated region. It seems like pure luck that the RUD didn’t happen early enough to impact land. They’re still doing a great job, but today was rough.

Maybe it’s time to rethink the Texas plans?

Edit: Upon reflection I’m less pessimistic now, as long as the FTS behaved reasonably. But I’ll still be mad if they’re flying again in a month.

Tout est nominal jusqu’à présent! Interesting how wobbly the fairings looked during separation.

Fingers crossed the engine relight is more successful than last time.

I nominate Ariane 6 for the Cutest SRB Award.

Apparently there was an issue with ground equipment.

Due to further operations needed on a ground means interfacing with the launcher, the launch is postponed. The new launch date will be announced following the completion of these operations.

Launch postponed :( No details or NET yet.

I’ve seen claims that Humble may be hiding some valid, previously-revealed keys.

In other words, it’s probably a good idea to reveal all your keys and save them in a spreadsheet. You don’t have to claim them in steam so you can still trade/gift them, and I don’t think they typically expire.

The ergonomics will be a bit tough but I’ll try to switch!

QWERTY keyboards aren’t very accessible to non-humans. How should we order the keys instead?

I think you’re right that Canadians and Mexicans know this and still want to be friends, but it doesn’t matter. The United States has officially and democratically become hostile to them, and they’re going to have to change the way they think about the relationship. An America that can’t be trusted reliably simply can’t be trusted.

Edit: But this doesn’t mean further conflict is inevitable! The sane citizens of each country will just need to work around the problem.

I don’t think they feel betrayed by Trump, but rather the United States. One of their closest friends just declared economic war on them for no reason. The shattering of trust isn’t less painful because they had advanced notice.

On the one hand, I bet this topic/tweet will never come up again.

On the other hand, I’m taking deep breaths as I prepare for space policy to be like this every day.

WTF, man.

That onboard footage was GORGEOUS. So cool.

But ouch, I hope no one was hurt by debris. Initial reports look like the broken ship flew pretty close to some caribbean islands. This feels like a pretty big setback and I’m expecting an extended investigation. I wonder whether this was a fluke or something related to V2 upgrades.

That looked impressively clean! I hope we get high-res onboard footage soon.

Yeah, I’m very impressed by how much they’ve improved since Monday. Maybe they can do rapid iteration afterall :P

I think there’s an interesting comms lesson in how universally grumpy the space enthusiast community is after the clock shenanigans the other day.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with that clock style, but it seems to have totally demoralized way more people than a typical scrub does.

I don’t think it’s as simple as “this is different than SpaceX”. My theory is that we feel like Blue was toying with our enthusiasm, and it’s a weird “I am being taken advantage of” instinct.

Ultimately this doesn’t matter - Blue is a rocket company, not a science communicator. But perhaps there’s a lesson for the rest of us as we build science communities.

(I’m bored waiting for this launch)

I hope we’ll eventually get to hear about how their experience landing New Shepard translated to New Glenn. For instance, what parts of the codebase carried over? Naively, it feels like apples and oranges.