Blue Origin's debut launch of its massive New Glenn rocket was scrubbed at the last minute due to technical issues. The company has not yet announced a new launch date.
Jeff Bezos' space company, Blue Origin, called off the debut launch of its massive new rocket, New Glenn , early Monday due to technical trouble. The 320-foot rocket was scheduled to launch before dawn from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying a prototype satellite. However, launch controllers encountered an unspecified issue in the final minutes of the countdown, leaving them insufficient time to proceed.
Once the countdown was halted, they immediately began draining all the fuel from the rocket.Blue Origin has not yet announced a new launch date, stating the team requires more time to resolve the problem. This test flight had already faced a delay due to rough seas, which posed a risk to the company's plan to land the first-stage booster on a floating platform in the Atlantic. New Glenn, named after the first American to orbit Earth, John Glenn, is five times taller than Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established the company 25 years ago and participated in Monday's countdown from Mission Control, located at the rocket factory near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Despite the setback, Bezos expressed his determination on Sunday evening, stating, 'we're going to pick ourselves up and keep going.
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