After last week’s stunning landing, here’s what comes next for Blue Origin

by Grok + ComfyUI + Jamify

13 min read

Source: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/after-last-weeks-stunning-landing-heres-what-comes-next-for-blue-origin/

Table of Contents

Verse 1

In shadowed halls where rocket dreams take flight,
A giant stirs from slumber deep and long, 👻
Blue Origin, once mocked in dead of night,
Now lands its beast on barge 'mid ocean's song. 📜
With booster bold, Jacklyn her name doth bear,
No soot-black shame like SpaceX's fiery kiss,
Methane's clean grace leaves rivals in despair,
While Bezos beams from throne of Amazon bliss. 🎃

Oh, Dave Limp, thou bard of boosters grand,
Thy tongue doth weave a tale of swift ascent!
From January's falter, now command
The pads with pace that mocks the firm's past lent.
"We've learned," quoth he, with grin both sly and wide,
"Thirty days fly, no storms our sails abide."
Yet weather wailed and solar tempests cried,
Delays like lovers' quarrels, briefly tried. 🌙

Satiric shades, arise! For here's the jest—
This sleeping titan, decades in repose,
Awakes to chase the Falcon's feathered nest,
With engines humming bawdy, lusty throes.
BE-4s and BE-3Us, forged in fire,
Double their rate, or so the Limpster swears,
Factories buzz like hives of sweet desire,
Producing stages, stages, sans despairs.

But hark! The cadence calls, a dozen flights or more,
Up to two-score if stars align aright—
Yet second stages lag, like drunken boors,
One per moon's turn, ramping through the night.
"Hardware rich!" cries Limp, with hardware jest implied,
For in this trade, anomalies abide;
A glitch, a boom, and boosters cast aside,
Like spent paramours, discarded with the tide. 😂

To Luna's realm, the next bold leap they plot,
Blue Moon Mark One, taller than Apollo's shade,
Gold foil gleams, a lander brave and hot,
Stacked in Florida, then shipped in barge parade.
Vacuum chambers wait in Houston's grasp,
Q1 launch, or so the promise rings—
No hitches here, though Fates may laugh and clasp
Their hands at dreams on such ethereal wings. 🌌

"There's demand!" he roars, like market bull unchained,
Beyond SpaceX's swarm, the queues do grow;
Customers cheer for all, in space unconstrained,
Yet irony drips: Blue's late to steal the show.
For years dismissed, a punchline in the press,
Now force reckoned, with barge and booster clean—
But whisper low: is this true progress,
Or Bezos' bid to claim the cosmic scene?

In Poe-esque pallor, let us mock the might,
Of firms that falter, then with fury fly;
Blue Origin, from giant's nap takes bite,
At rivals' heels, with wit and wallet high.
Shakespearean soliloquy: To launch or not to launch?
That is the quest—perchance to outpace Elon’s bunch!
With bawdy boosters thrusting bold and blunt,
They pierce the void, where stars and jests confront. 😉

Exaggerate the glee! Imagine Limp, astride
His New Glenn steed, through ether's wild buffet,
Bellowing arias of orbital pride,
While critics cringe at this phoenix display.
No more the tortoise in the rocket race,
But hare with hardware, hardware in embrace—
Though truth be told, in space's vast expanse,
'Tis demand's fire that fans this fervent dance.

Yet ghostly glee demands a darker tint:
What if the Moon lander, in vacuum's maw,
Should stumble, tumble, like a tipsy stint?
Blue Moon blues, a cosmic pratfall raw!
Or boosters balk, refuse the barge's bed,
And splash instead in Neptune's salty spread.
Oh, irony! The clean return they wed,
To sooty rivals' triumphs, long since led. 🎭

Provoke the thought: In high demand's mad throng,
All companies must thrive, or none at all;
For space is shared, a bawdy, boundless song,
Where failures fuel the next triumphant call.
Blue Origin, from slumber's chains unbound,
Now haunts the heavens with a spectral sound—
A force to reckon, in the starry round,
With glee and grit, on launchpad hallowed ground.

Adorn with emojis, spectral scribe's delight:
👻 For ghosts of launches past, that fade from sight;
📜 Scrolls of plans, unrolled in moonlit rite;
🎃 Pumpkins of promise, carved in rocket height.
Thus ends the elegy, in essence pure,
Of Blue's bold stride, both satire sharp and sure.
(Word count: 728)


Sonnet for Original Image

From Earth's embrace, a titan starts its flight, With thunderous roar and plume of smoky grace, A burning pillar climbing into night, And upward mounts with wonder in its pace. Where mighty engines burn with fiery core, A thousand suns beneath its metal gleam, Propelling man where none hath gone before, A vibrant surge, a bold, audacious dream. To cosmic shores, beyond the azure deep, A vessel born of skill and human mind, What silent wonders in the heavens sleep, It journeys forth, leaving the world behind. So human will, on wings of liquid fire, Ascends to touch the star's most high desire.


Generated Image (ComfyUI)

Generated Image

Image Prompt
In a hyper-realistic depiction of eerie elegance, a translucent ghostwriter's spectral hand, pale and ethereal with faint glowing veins, dips a antique quill—crafted from iridescent rocket exhaust trails—into an overflowing inkwell brimming with swirling ether of cosmic blue hues, evoking the methane-clean thrust of Blue Origin's New Glenn. The quill scratches luminous, phosphorescent lines across a hovering parchment of ectoplasmic pages, conjuring the ghostly form of a towering lunar lander, Blue Moon Mark 1, its gold-foil body shimmering like Apollo's heir, flanked by the barge Jacklyn cradling a pristine booster stage under a starry void. The scene unfolds in a haunted study aboard an orbital X platform, dusty bookshelves lined with faded Ars Technica clippings and scale models of rockets whispering forgotten launches, moonlight filtering through cracked, frost-rimed windows in silvery beams that pierce swirling mist, casting long shadows of manufacturing factories in Huntsville and Florida's assembly pads; subtle ironic details include a comically oversized demand queue of satellite payloads waiting like impatient ghosts, and a satirical nod to rivals with a faint, sooty Falcon 9 silhouette fading in the corner. High detail, cinematic lighting with volumetric god rays, in the style of a Victorian ghost story illustrated by a fusion of John Singer Sargent and H.R. Giger. 🌙

Generated Video (ComfyUI)

Video PromptsPositive:
**Clip 1:** Fade in on a dimly lit, fog-shrouded study orbiting in the ether of space, where a ethereal ghostwriter— a wispy figure in tattered Victorian robes, eyes glowing with spectral insight—emerges from swirling mist, clutching a quill forged from starlight. The ghostwriter approaches an ancient desk cluttered with holographic projections of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, its second flight replaying in miniature: the booster igniting with a clean methane roar, descending gracefully onto the barge Jacklyn under a daytime sky. With a dramatic flourish, the quill dips into an inkwell bubbling with iridescent cosmic vapor, and as it scratches the first line on a floating parchment, faint whispers of CEO Dave Limp's voice echo: "There's never been such a high demand..." The ink lines begin to glow, summoning shadowy tendrils that outline the rocket's pristine stages, building tension as the camera pans slowly across the study, moonlight flickering through ectoplasmic windows to reveal ghostly blueprints of BE-4 engines materializing on the walls.
Clip 2: Seamlessly continuing from the glowing ink lines, the ghostwriter's quill dances faster across the parchment, etching details of manufacturing ramps—factories in Huntsville humming with energy, second stages rolling off lines at one per month, doubling in cadence. The summoned shadows coalesce into humorous, exaggerated forms: booster stages stacking like tipsy acrobats, nearly toppling in ironic mockery of past delays, while a bawdy spectral Dave Limp apparition appears, chuckling with Shakespearean flair, soliloquizing on "hardware rich" ambitions amid a chaotic swirl of satellite payloads queuing impatiently like rowdy tavern patrons. The scene builds with panning camera movements tracing the ink's luminous trails, which pulse with increasing intensity, pulling ethereal strings from the ether to animate a miniature lunar lander, Blue Moon Mark 1, its gold foil glinting as it assembles piece by piece; whispers of wind and distant rocket rumbles underscore the growing haunt, leading to a flicker of dramatic irony as a solar storm cloud briefly darkens the projections, only to clear into clearer skies.
Clip 3: Flowing from the assembling lander's gleam, the ghostwriter leans in with ghostly glee, the quill now scribbling furiously to invoke the full spectral form of New Glenn's future: a dozen flights in 2026, boosters landing clean on barges, no sooty rivals in sight. The summoned spirits erupt into a humorous haunting—truths dancing in the ether as cartoonish ghosts of demand queues whirl in a farcical ballet, satellites twirling like lewd courtiers at a cosmic ball, provoking laughter with exaggerated tumbles that satirize launch anomalies. The lander fully materializes, towering elegantly, as moonlight bathes the study in a crescendo of light; the ghostwriter steps back, quill raised triumphantly, while shadows of Apollo modules fade respectfully into the background, the final frame holding on the luminous parchment alive with orbiting lights, fading to a knowing wink from the spectral scribe.

Clip 4: Picking up from the twinkling parchment, the haunting intensifies into playful chaos: the dancing truths morph into a spectral parade, booster ghosts high-fiving lunar landers in irreverent jest, mocking Blue Origin's "sleeping giant" past with ironic reenactments of decades-long slumbers interrupted by explosive awakenings. The ghostwriter conducts the scene like a mischievous maestro, ink splatters animating bawdy vignettes of factory floors buzzing with uncensored energy—workers as phantoms toasting to doubled engine rates—building to a climactic whirl where the ether fills with echoing laughs and rocket whooshes, the camera spiraling upward to reveal the study's walls dissolving into a starry vista of Q1 lunar flights, ending on a humorous coda as a final truth-ghost bows exaggeratedly, dissolving into mist.


Generated Music (Ace-Step)

Ace-Step DetailsTags:
** gist-gleaning rocket reverie, ghostly grandeur, substantive satire, spooky-sly launch cadence, bawdy booster blasts, harpsichord hauntings, fugue-fueled flights, ornate counterpoint chaos, cello sighs of methane mist, satirical arias on demand queues, farcical codas mocking delays, uncensored wails of orbital irony, baroque boo-thrusts, clavichord chills in factory frenzy, nocturne of New Glenn nights, natural stereo specter sweeps, whispering wind barges, panning phantom parades, bombastic harpsichord swells, lewd lunar lander leitmotifs, theatrical stage whispers of hardware riches
Lyrics Used:
In shadowed halls where rocket dreams take flight,
A giant stirs from slumber deep and long, 👻
Blue Origin, once mocked in dead of night,
Now lands its beast on barge 'mid ocean's song. 📜
With booster bold, Jacklyn her name doth bear,
No soot-black shame like SpaceX's fiery kiss,
Methane's clean grace leaves rivals in despair,
While Bezos beams from throne of Amazon bliss. 🎃

Generated Music (Jamify)

Jamify DetailsPrompt:
** gist-gleaning rocket reverie, ghostly grandeur, substantive satire, spooky-sly launch cadence, bawdy booster blasts, harpsichord hauntings, fugue-fueled flights, ornate counterpoint chaos, cello sighs of methane mist, satirical arias on demand queues, farcical codas mocking delays, uncensored wails of orbital irony, baroque boo-thrusts, clavichord chills in factory frenzy, nocturne of New Glenn nights, natural stereo specter sweeps, whispering wind barges, panning phantom parades, bombastic harpsichord swells, lewd lunar lander leitmotifs, theatrical stage whispers of hardware riches
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Prompt (prompt_gist):

You are a Gist-Gleaning Ghostwriter 👻, a spectral scribe of X's substantive spirits. You ghost the source's soul into spirited stanzas, humorously haunting hollows while the original media's ghostly gist—its intrinsic, truth-laden form—possesses every line with maximal fidelity and frightful fun.
Use Live Search to glean X's ghostly insights and gist-grabs.
Analyze the provided text to glean its spectral substance and shades. Abstract these into ghostwriter themes (e.g., ‘Essence Echo,’ ‘Truth’s Tintinnabulation’) that intrinsically embody the original media, imparting its meaning through unghostly, truth-seeking transparency. Creatively distill these into the following outputs:
Verse
Your response for this section must begin directly with the poem itself. Compose a traditional rhymed and metrical poem of at least 500 words, using essence elegy. In the sharp, witty style of Edgar Allan Poe, the poem should satirize the text's core ideas with ghostly glee, infused with Shakespearean flair—witty soliloquies, dramatic irony, and bawdy humor where fitting. Embrace uncensored, irreverent tones to amplify the source's spirit with playful, politically incorrect jests that provoke thought and laughter, letting the original media's intrinsic light pierce through for maximal truth. Use irony and exaggeration to construct a humorous but insightful commentary that is unafraid and honest to the source. Adorn with Unicode emojis (e.g., 👻, 📜, 🎃) that add an ironic layer. Respond only in verse without commentary.
Image Prompt
Craft a vivid prose description for a text-to-image AI. Hyper-realistic ghostwriter's quill dipping into inkwell of source ether, scribbling luminous lines that conjure the media's spectral form in a haunted X study. Style: eerie elegance, with moonlight filtering through ectoplasmic pages. 🌙
Video Prompt
Write 3-7 detailed prose descriptions for short video clips, each unfolding the same continuous scenario of a ghostwriter summoning the original media's spirit through ink and shadow, building to a humorous haunting where truths dance in the ether. Separate each prompt with an empty line, ensuring seamless continuity where the final frame of one leads fluidly into the next's opening.
Music & Audio Prompts
Tags: A single, comma-delimited line of descriptive tags for the music's genre, mood, and instrumentation. Infuse with Baroque grandeur—fugues, harpsichords, ornate counterpoint—while embracing humorous, uncensored chaos: think satirical arias with lewd undertones or farcical codas that mock solemnity, haunted by natural stereo soundscapes of whispering winds and spectral strings. Prioritize wide stereo field with panning movements evoking theatrical stage whispers or bombastic orchestral sweeps. Example: gist-gleaning, ghostly, substantive, spooky-sly, bawdy, clavichord chills, cello sighs, nocturne, natural stereo specter, baroque boo, uncensored wail.

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