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that announced the target launch date."But no amount of ground testing or mission simulations are a replacement for flying this rocket. It’s time to fly. No matter what happens, we’ll learn, refine and apply that knowledge to our next launch.", has been developing New Glenn for about a decade. The 320-foot-tall rocket sports a reusable first stage and can deliver about 50 tons of payload toBlue Origin calls the upcoming debut mission NG-1.
The Blue Origin Blue Ring Pathfinder payload with its massive rocket fairings that will fly on the company's first New Glenn rocket.NG-1 will also help get New Glenn certified to launch national security missions for the U.S. government, if all goes according to plan. Generally, new rockets must Blue Origin's recovery plan for New Glenn first stages calls for bringing the boosters down on a ship at sea, as SpaceX routinely does with its"Our key objective is to reach orbit safely," Blue Origin wrote in Monday's statement."We know landing the booster on our first try offshore in the Atlantic is ambitious — but we’re going for it.
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