Blue Origin has confirmed that it's targeting no earlier than October 13 for the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket for a NASA mission to Mars.
Blue Origin has confirmed that it is targeting no earlier than October 13 for the maiden flight of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket in a mission bound for Mars.
Recommended Videos The rocket’s inaugural flight will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launching two identical spacecraft built by Rocket Lab for NASA’s Escapade mission. The spacecraft will gather data to learn more about how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment, and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.
The unwanted disruption piles on the pressure for Blue Origin to have everything ready for October because if it misses the fall launch window when Earth and Mars are ideally aligned, there won’t be another chance to launch for another two years.
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