Blue Origin New Glenn

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“It’s time to be able to move through space at will and to be able to defend ourselves when we are attacked,” ULA CEO Tory Bruno says.

The world is headed for a period of launcher abundance as the New Glenn expands rocket choice in the heavy-lift segment.

“We are at an inflection point,” says Kelli Kedis Ogborn, vice president of Space Commerce and Entrepreneurship at the Space Foundation.

Blue Origin has achieved its goal of becoming an orbital launch player, even as it failed to recover its first-stage booster in the ambitious inaugural flight of its New Glenn rocket.

An undisclosed vehicle subsystem issue on the New Glenn heavy-lift rocket prompted Blue Origin to scrub the launch shortly after 3 a.m. EST.

Liftoff of NG-1 from Space Launch Complex-36 remains targeted between 1-4 a.m. EST.

Blue Origin plans to flight-test its first orbital launch vehicle, with liftoff of New Glenn from Cape Canaveral SFS targeted for the early hours of Jan. 10.

ULA flew two flights for its Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle in 2024, on Jan. 8 and Oct. 4.

The barge is named Jacklyn after the mother of Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos.

The company, owned by Jeff Bezos, has not released a launch date for its first New Glenn mission.

Blue Origin reiterated its plan to launch the first New Glenn orbital rocket this month, with a key static hot-fire of the reusable first stage still pending.

Blue Origin's second New Shepard vehicle flew with a dozen payloads as part of a shakedown run ahead of passenger flights.

The launch took place from the company’s Launch Site One near Van Horn, East Texas.

The static test fire at Cape Canaveral SFS marked Blue Origin’s first fueling of a New Glenn rocket stage with flight propellants, and the first engine burn of an integrated flight stage.

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With testing and integration still ahead, the New Glenn will miss its Mars launch debut.

Blue Origin had been targeting New Glenn’s debut for Oct. 13.

The Jacklyn is a 380-ft.-long, 200-ft.-wide specialized barge.

Powered by a pair of BE-3U engines, the upper stage of New Glenn is intended to deliver a pair of small NASA science satellites on a trajectory to reach Mars.

The Oct. 13-21 launch window is an ambitious goal.

NASA’s two Mars-bound Escapade spacecraft will fly on the inaugural launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket.

The U.S. Space Force has added another mission to the ongoing National Security Space Launch Phase 2 program.