Hotel Mars, Episode N with Doug Messier Substackier Substack, following the space news.

The space news disappointed me severely.

In Blue Origin, we've waited for quite some time for Blue Origin to deliver its big rocket,

its big motor into orbit, because we needed a companion to SpaceX's success,

never used just one campfire when you can have two.

However, there was a failure of boosting the satellite into proper orbit that it was carrying.

The investigation has not, at this point,

given me examples of what happened, but I'm turning to you, Doug.

This was a disappointment throughout the system.

Do we know that they can correct it, or is it still a mystery?

No, they announced the reason for that fairly quickly.

There's two B-E-3 engines on the second stage,

and one of them underperformed. So it left a satellite from AST, space mobile, and

unusable orbit. Now, this satellite is designed to produce communications directly from a satellite

to your cell phone, and they're building a network of a constellation of that for 248 of the satellites.

So that satellite was a loss, and it's being covered by the satellite company's insurance.

So it was a setback for them.

A few days after that launch failed, they got approval from the FCC to launch 248 of these massive satellites in order to provide global direct-to-sell communications.

So it's a very disappointing for Blue Origin.

It was the third launch of the New Glenn rocket.

The first two had succeeded in doing what they were doing, and one failed and it's their first failure.

We need Blue Origin to be successful. Does this affect the moon plans? It does. The Origin has a

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