Written by Blue Origin called off the debut launch of its new rocket early on Monday because of technical trouble. The 320ft (98-meter) New Glenn rocket was supposed to blast off before dawn with a prototype satellite from Florida’s Cape Canaveral space force station. But launch controllers had to deal with an unspecified rocket issue in the […]
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin announced it would launch its first orbital rocket “no earlier than Friday”, a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Then the Amazon founder’s rocket company delayed the launch until at least Sunday 12 January due to rough seas. Named New Glenn, the rocket is […]