These days, Blue Origin has been battling with what is more than a nightmare – the
company looks to be hitting its head on the rock with rocket engineering, but they haven't
gotten it right.
And the recent failure of the New Shepherd rocket speaks volumes about the qualification
of Blue Origin's engineers.
They may not have the technical know-how to simulate faults from rocket engines, unlike
SpaceX, which understands the précised path to get the raptor engine fire up without flaws.
So SpaceX knows what works, while Blue Origin may still operate on guesswork.
Thus, everything now plays out like what Jeff Bezos is doing is a glorified amusement ride.
Why is Blue Origin always failing, and why haven't they recorded much more success even
though they've been in the space race before SpaceX?
Let's find out in today's video.
Come to think of it; Blue Origin company is ten years older in the space business than
SpaceX, and yet they have not even managed to get into actual orbit, let alone send astronauts
to the moon, but while rocket science doesn't look like a chaos play, does it mean Blue
Origin is becoming a joke?
Or a playing ground for rocket engine failures?
Blue Origin's long-term goals include sending astronauts into space on New Shepard, developing
liquid rocket engines that can be reused, creating an orbital launch vehicle using New
Glenn, producing the next generation of space habitats, and landing astronauts back on the
surface of the moon.
These are imminent goals they are working hard to achieve.
And also, to manufacture rocket engines and sell them to other space companies.
But are they really close to it?
Well, their progress will tell better.
But if that be the case, isn't it better they produce one engine, test it and fire it up
to lower earth orbit, and make sure it works over and over again before being confident
about producing engines other space companies will rely on to get to lower earth orbit?
Yeah, Blue Origin should actually consider this.
Now, the big question is why a big company with a big investment can't be successful.
Since Smith joined at the end of 2017, the company has continued to experience the hard
side of engineering.
Some of his employees have had trouble with how he leads.
They have said that he makes slow decisions, making Blue Origin more like a traditional
aerospace company than a space company that has been in business for over 10 years.
But from Smith's point of view, he is trying to change Blue Origin's culture and make it
run like a major space company that can go out and wins big contracts from NASA and the
Defense Department.
There was a time when the United States and Russia were the only countries that could
be called "superpowers" in space.
But in the past 20 years, the space race has become a fight between two people worth billions
of dollars and no longer between countries.
Private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin were being followed up by NASA programs.
But Blue Origin seems to run sluggishly, and rating them successful is what we don't have
at sight at the moment.
Hence, their engineering ideas don't seem to work even after simulation.
On April 29th, 2015, the New Shepard rocket was launched from Texas by Blue Origin.
The flight, which reached an altitude of 307,000 feet and was named after Alan Shepard, the
first American to fly into space, would have been a success if not for one big problem,
and that's about the rocket proportion system.
The rocket's propulsion system didn't work because the hydraulic system lost pressure.
Rockets didn't have systems that could be used again, so this loss wouldn't have been
a failure.
But they wanted to make rockets that could be used more than once, so losing part of
their rocket wasn't how things were supposed to go.
The company then said that suborbital flights wouldn't be possible for a few years.
In fact, they won't be able to get the new shepherd on track in the next five years.
Not when the FAA currently has dozens of investigations with the company.
On the other hand, Falcon 1's first test flight happened four years after SpaceX was founded.
A fuel leak caused the flight to fail.
But the spacecraft was finally put into orbit in 2008.
After Falcon 1 proved that SpaceX could send rockets into space, it was taken out of service
to make room for Falcon 9.
Both Falcon rockets got their names from "Star Wars."
In June 2010, NASA's Cape Canaveral was used to launch the Falcon 9 on a mission that NASA
helped pay for.
Since then, SpaceX has flown it more than 80 times and is now considered a major player
in modern space operations.
Whereas blue Origin seems to keep crawling like a tortoise learning how to walk out things
in the space game
In 2012, SpaceX sent the Falcon 9 on another flight that went well.
The Dragon was sent to the International Space Station.
It was the first time a private spacecraft was sent to the ISS on this mission.
Even though it could carry 7,000 pounds of things like clothes and food.
After getting into orbit, the spacecraft took three days to get to the station to ensure
all of its systems were working correctly.
SpaceX still sends supplies to the ISS.
Since its first successful trip in 2012, the company has made 24 such trips, and its 25th
trip is planned for May 2022.
SpaceX seems to have made more headway from all these successful launches than Blue Origin
in consistently getting rockets to outer space.
But landing on mars is what many are not sure SpaceX could make a dream come true at the
moment.
We also know that Blue Origin has engineers and technicians who are good at their work.
They were ahead of other commercial competitors, like Boeing and NASA, in terms of time in
the new commercial space industry.
But why couldn't they catch up?
We space nuts may not know what is happening inside Blue Origin’s company right now.
But the fact that engineers and technicians once left Blue Origin to work for other companies
is alarming and calls for concern about how Blue Origin's structure might have fallen
apart.
And now we've heard that the BE-4 engine might not work as well as it should.
No matter what age Blue Origin has operated in the space race without a proper countable
success, they may be dreaming crazily to arrive at a successful outcome.
The company's dream may come true if they keep dreaming and not folding their hands
but working towards it with every effort.
After all, everyone was once a dreamer, and the ability to keep dreaming and pushing hard
got us to where we are today.
Suppose the culture at Blue Origin has made them less creative, for instance, because
of strict management or a lot of red tape.
If so, that could be a problem, straining the company from the success path.
We hope they'll figure out what's wrong and get things fixed.
This leaves us with only one horse to pull heavier loads.
Either the Falcon 9 rocket or a lift from another country.
We need more than one company to success in this space race.
In the early stages of development, it looks like Blue Origin was more interested in space
tourism than SpaceX was in going to other planets.
But both companies have shown they can reach their goals.
Though Blue Origin is still working behind the scenes.
SpaceX has quickly proven itself worthy of the space race in this space battle between
titans.
It's ahead of Blue Origin because it has done more missions, including ones to the ISS,
that have been successful.
In fact, the upcoming missions of NASA's Artemis spacecraft show that SpaceX is the best private
space company in the world.
Ultimately, the competition between these two companies has made space travel more interesting,
a win for the human race.
Jeff Bezos appears to remodel his space company like the older, slower-moving space companies
we had during the days of the Soviet Union.
The company enjoys spending investment capital that would have been used to better a project,
perhaps to pay staff or to pay the already incurred bills of the company, but for now,
not so good at producing good rockets.
And that brings us to a question like; what are Jeff Bezos's real priority's, is it going
to space or making money?
Both are important, but one can be given more priority than the other.
After seeing Bezos in action, it seems like the founder of Blue Origin cares more about
making money than going to space.
If he really wants to go to space, he could put more effort into doing what he needs to
do to make its rocket launches successful.
Have you ever considered taking a trip to outer space?
Which of these two companies would you choose for a lifetime trip?
Before taking your decision take a look into Blue Origin BE 4 Failure And its Million Dollars
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