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		93po on Jan 13, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 – Live To be fair, SpaceX did/does(?) the same thing - they use pretty opaque messaging when things went wrong early on. And do stuff like deliberately not show explosion footage on the live stream.

Tepix on Jan 14, 2025 [–]

They do sometimes give reasons for a stopped countdown such as "an issue with a valve" or "a boat in the wrong area".

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