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Some highlights and timestamps:
- 01:40 New Glenn booster midsection
- 02:00 Booster strakes: Thermal protection cloth + high-temperature nickel alloy
- 02:50 Strake should reduce the required landing propellant, and also provide a small amount of lift on ascent.
- 04:00 Booster is autogenously pressurised, on both LOX and LNG tanks.
- 05:00 LOX tank is on the bottom.
- 08:20 Ullage gas lines require slip joints, since the vehicle contracts when filled with cryogens
- 11:00 ESCAPADE launch window. Excess delta V allows them to launch late in the window. (aged like milk)
- 13:20 Integration facility.
- 14:15 Fairing with human for scale
- 16:00 Transporter erector with mass simulators for the booster, upper stage, and payload. Payload simulator can also simulate vibration.
- 17:45 Main role of the TE is to keep the vehicle from bending during movement.
- 18:37 TE pivot point and hydraulic actuators. The T-0 release mechanism is built into a ring on the TE. All of the umbillicals are attached back in the integration facility prior to rollout.
- 21:00 Flame deflector and accoustic suppression system
- 22:38 Water and lightning towers
- 23:35 Butt end of the TE
- 25:48 New Glenn will fly humans at some point, but that’s not the main focus right now.
- 31:30 Up on the tower.
- 33:33 Tank farm. LNG, LOX, and LH2, with vacuum-jacketed distribution lines.
- 35:35 VAB, Falcon Heavy landing pads, old Delta IV launch pad. LC39A and 39B, SLC-41 with Atlas V + Starliner on the pad.
- 36:05 New Glenn will need a second pad for redundancy and launch cadence.
- 36:57 Early days of Blue Origin. Looked for a way to beat chemical rockets. Concluded that chemical rockets were fine for Earth launch, but reusability mattered.
- 37:48 Early hop tests with prototype vehicles: Charon (jet-powered), PM1 (gum-drop capsule), PM2 (made it to altitude, failed landing), PM3 (never built), PM4 (became New Shepard).
- 39:00 “Anything you would tell yourself from 20 years ago?” “Maybe a few technical learnings.”
- 39:20 Jeff prattles on a bit on rate manufacturing and reducing the cost of access to space.
- 42:28 Primary reason Jeff left his CEO role at Amazon was to focus on Blue Origin.
- 43:33 Launch pad is well situated for public viewing of launches.