Blue Origin has revealed a target time-frame for its next New Glenn rocket mission, and it really wants to achieve something it failed at the first time around.
Dave Limp, chief executive of Blue Origin , revealed the plan at the 27th Annual Commercial Space Conference in Washington, D.C. this week, adding that his team is keen to use the flight to achieve the first successful landing of the rocket’s first-stage booster.
Please enable Javascript to view this content “We had most of the right conditions in the engine but we weren’t able to get everything right to the engine from the tanks,” Limp said in comments reported by SpaceNews. “We think we understand what the issues are.” He said the anomaly was down to “a combination of a couple things,” adding, “This was our first attempt at it. I don’t want to go into too much detail because we’re still going through the anomaly investigation.
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