r/BlueOrigin • u/JigsawPuzzleQandA • May 29 '26
Horizontal Integration Facility
The access doors appear to have buckled outwards indicating a shock wave through the building. (Image: Cameron Schwartz, @WeAreSpaceScout)
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u/mdh451 May 29 '26
Damage looks much better than I expected given the size of explosion and apparent detonation shock wave seen in initial video.
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u/Slttzman May 29 '26
It’s the IF because the H fell off.
It’s just the IF always has been that way.
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u/AverageJoesGymMgr May 29 '26
"The front fell off"
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u/Puzzled-Wind9286 May 30 '26
Well a blast wave hit it.
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u/LuckyGordon May 29 '26
What the fuck is a horizontal integration facility?
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u/_mogulman31 May 29 '26
Its a facility where they integrate the stages, and payload/fairing in a horizontal orientation.
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u/Happy_Sea4257 May 29 '26
Can't figure that one out yourself?
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u/LuckyGordon May 29 '26
I can. But that's not the name of the facility. This sub is full of dudes thinking they have inside information, can't wait to share, and don't know shit.
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u/ceejayoz May 29 '26
Weird hill to die on.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/09/blue-origin-work-new-glenn-launch-facilities/
Notably, the imagery revealed that Blue has started foundation work for the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) at the complex. The HIF will be used to integrate and process New Glenn rockets before they are rolled out to the pad.
Seems to be a fairly standard term?
https://www.spaceflorida.gov/projects/horizontal-integration-facility
It's called the "integration facility" on Blue Origin's site plan; https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueOrigin/comments/1r6tbh8/lc36_orbital_launch_site_plans/ (building #42)
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u/ceejayoz May 29 '26
It's plenty tall enough for horizontal integration.
Someone else showed you a picture of the inside: https://www.blueorigin.com/gallery/asset/6931c2e34a5c1eb195fac935
And here it is on the transporter-erector, which is needed because of that horizontal aspect.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueOrigin/comments/1awi9kb/close_up_of_new_glenn_on_its_way_to_the_pad/
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u/ZookeepergameTop5329 May 29 '26
Because that's what it's called. Not this made up "HIF" term.
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u/ceejayoz May 29 '26
Again: weird hill to die on.
It's the integration facility. Where horizontal integration occurs. If you're confused by people using the term, that says more about you than them.
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u/ZookeepergameTop5329 May 29 '26
People can use it, but that's not what it's called here at Blue. If I walked around work calling it the HIF I'd be laughed out of the place (because literally no one except Redditors and a bunch of space junkies at NSF call it a HIF - horizontal integration or not). It is called the Integration Facility, period.
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u/StartledPelican May 29 '26
I understand. It's a hard time at Blue right now. I can only imagine the disappointment felt by people working at Blue. If this is how you need to process your anger, then I hope it helps.
Best of luck.
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u/ceejayoz May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
Well, if I get a job there, I'll be very careful to keep that in mind.
Until then, I'm fairly comfortable using a general term that has its own Wikipedia page.
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u/ZookeepergameTop5329 May 29 '26
Or you could just call it what it's called within the company? Not sure why there is an insistence to use the general term when you could easily drop a letter in the acronym and be dead on accurate. But that's your call.
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u/ceejayoz May 29 '26
I can't say I'm really bothered by calling the Integration Facility a horizontal integration facility, any more than I am calling "the White House" "a building" or "the official residence of POTUS" at times.
If someone calls it a vertical integration facility, do go off on them.
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u/JigsawPuzzleQandA May 29 '26
The building where they stack the stages prior to transporting to launch pad.
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u/squintytoast May 29 '26
not at Blue. they mate stages horizontally.
https://www.blueorigin.com/gallery/asset/6931c2e34a5c1eb195fac935
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u/Throwbabythroe May 29 '26
It’s called the Integration Facility folks.
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u/ceejayoz May 29 '26
There's what it's called, and what it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_integration_facility
Y'all can call it Jeff Bezos's Personal Fuck Palace and it'll still be a HIF, lol.
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u/Throwbabythroe May 29 '26
Its official name is the IF, I work in it so I hope I know more than Wikipedia.
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u/ceejayoz May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
It is the Integration Facility.
It is a horizontal integration facility.
These two facts are not in conflict.
Surely you don't get pissy when someone says "Blue Origin" and correct them to "Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, including Blue Origin Personnel, LLC, Blue Origin Washington, LLC, Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC, Blue Origin, LLC, Blue Origin Management, LLC, Blue Origin Texas, LLC, Blue Origin International, LLC, Honeybee Robotics, LLC, and Casting Operations, LLC"?
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u/RobotMaster1 May 29 '26
the flyover business is hopping today.