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Bezos couldn’t join the race: New Glenn launch canceled during countdown!

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January 13, 2025

Blue Origin, the aviation and space research center owned by Amazon CEO and one of the world’s hundred richest people with his fortune, Jeff Bezos, was scheduled to place its first rocket, called New Glenn, into orbit today.

The company announced that the first launch was canceled during the countdown due to “several anomalies.”

Jeff Bezos’s aerospace startup Blue Origin was planning to place its first rocket into orbit today after more than a decade of work. However, due to anomalies detected during the countdown, the New Glenn launch was canceled. The date of the next launch attempt will be announced after the examinations.
Originally planned to be launched in 2020, New Glenn was planned to place a test satellite into orbit, after which the booster would separate from the rest of the rocket and land on a specially built ship named after Bezos’ mother Jacklyn, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission was seen as a critical milestone in space exploration for Blue Origin. The company said getting to orbit safely was the “main goal” and that any success in landing the booster would be “icing on the cake.”
Blue Origin has so far carried out missions to carry tourists to the edge of space, but it has not achieved the capability to send a rocket capable of carrying humans and satellites into orbit.
On the other hand, Bezos said at the NYT Dealbook Summit last year, “We need to lower the cost of access to space. We can set the preconditions where the next generation, or the generation after that, can remove industrial waste from Earth, and then this planet will be protected as it should be.”
New Glenn’s development process was prolonged due to delays in the completion of the BE-4 engines produced in-house.
Blue Origin has followed a more traditional engineering methodology in this process, aiming to minimize unplanned explosions.
Blue Origin is calling its first upcoming mission NG-1.
New Glenn will carry a payload on this flight: a test version of the company’s “Blue Ring” spacecraft platform.
The platform is designed for missions such as delivering customer payloads to various orbits.
According to a mission statement the company released last month, the test model will validate Blue Ring’s communications capabilities from orbit to the ground.
The NG-1 mission will also contribute to the process of certifying Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to launch national security missions for the U.S. government.
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