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The pace is glacial , it's understandable for NASA because any failures would cause an uproar as its taxpayer money being spent but what's the deal with BO. It's not like Bezos is lacking for money and you can see the success of the iterative method from SpaceX .

What gives ?

any inside info on this from coworkers?

Hi,

I submitted an application early September and interviewed early November. On workday my application still says under "In progress, under review". I was hoping someone could give me a timeline on how long the recruiting proccess will take this year and if its normal to wait this long to hear back.

Thanks!

Hi all, does anyone know if Blue Origin tends to hire PhD students who do research work in optimization/control/reinforcement learning?

I applied for a full-time GNC engineer role at Blue a while ago when I just got my master's, but failed the 2nd round of interview with the technical manager. I am doing a PhD in electrical engineering now and want to get an internship in the summer.

Hey y’all,

So in the beginning of October I applied to a Blue Origin Internship, and a few days later the status read “Application Submitted, Under Review”. I read somewhere on here that usually any next steps is taken 2-3 weeks after that, but it’s been about a month since then and I haven’t received anything from them.

Does the process usually take a long time, or does this mean I’m in for a rejection?

Thanks for any help/insight!

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Barge was moved out to sea with the assistance of a few tugs and the support vessel!

Last November, when NG was first rolled out, I made a reply saying "At this rate first launch attempt will be around June 2024, second flight in December" which was rightfully downvoted harshly, because I WAS WRONG. There, I said it. I was wrong, I was not even close. BO is even more lethargic than I thought. Any year now, right?

Will an attempt be made to retrieve the fairing after it is removed/released for this first launch of NG? All the parts and systems, currently used, ought to be tested, I believe.

Will a helicopter (s) be used to bring the fairing pieces back to Jacklyn, the sea based landing system?

We know it's carrying blue ring, but we have never been provided a single photo of it and blue has provided very little updates on it's development.

Hi everyone! I've been a long time rocket fan, but I haven't really paid much attention to Blue Origin until recently with the anticipation for NG's inaugural flight. So I don't really know much.

I was wondering what BO's production capabilities look like for this rocket. Do you guys think it is difficult to produce multiple boosters, engines, second stages quickly/cheaply? From my impression, it seems like the only hardware they have right now is the full stack seen in the recent pictures? (I saw the pics of the booster being rolled out a few weeks ago too). Are there one or more boosters in production right now, or is BO waiting to learn from this first flight before subsequent revisions?

I say this mainly as someone who follows SpaceX, their approach with Starship has been trying to make the materials and production as cheap and efficient as possible, so stainless steel, welding out in the open in tents, basically making a production line before they even know what is right and wrong (hence they have a lot of extra unflown hardware lying around as some of the ships and boosters got skipped in favor of newer revisions). From what it looks like, is New Glenn made with more traditional materials? Aluminum? Carbon fiber? It seems pretty in line with how Falcon 9 is built, just way larger.

From what I know BE-4 is a staged combustion methalox engine? Do you think they've been able to iron out the issues with the design and can now pump these out reliably? Just curious on your guys thoughts on the design choices and tradeoffs.

Also if you guys can tell me about the plans after New Glenn, that would be super cool too. I read in an article that the current plan is to have reusable first stage and expendable second stage, but then later have a reusable second stage too, right? Does BE-4 have good throttle capability that would allow for soft touchdowns and hovering? If you recall the reason why landing the Falcon 9 booster was so difficult was because it had such a high thrust to weight when it was coming back down landing, so it needed to do the hoverslam. If NG doesnt have to deal with that, I can definitely see the first landing being a success assuming they can feed the engines with good pressure on the way down and restart them properly!

(sorry for the long post, just really excited about another capable rocket coming online)

I don't understand. Did Jeff just not check in for 6 years?