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Blue Origin's New Glenn booster rocket successfully launched its second-ever trip into space on Thursday to deploy two NASA satellites bound for Mars.
Blue Origin is preparing to launch its massive New Glenn rocket on just its second spaceflight in 2025. Here's how to watch a livestream.
Overall, it has been quite a ride for the company founded nearly two decades ago in New Zealand by Peter Beck. A new book about the company’s origins and aspirations, The Launch of Rocket Lab, tells the story of the company’s rise in words and grand images.
A Soyuz-2-1a rocket carrying the NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts will launch the Soyuz MS-28 mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, about 1,300 miles (2,100 km) southeast of Moscow on Thursday.
"We are currently assessing opportunities to establish our next launch window based on forecasted space weather and range availability": Blue Origin.
Created in 2000 by Bezos, Amazon’s founder, Blue Origin already holds a NASA contract for the third moon landing by astronauts under the Artemis program. Musk’s SpaceX beat out Blue Origin for the first and second crew landings, using Starships, nearly 100 feet (30 meters) taller than Bezos’ New Glenn.
Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its towering New Glenn rocket on a landmark second mission.
Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin. Its New Glenn rocket, with liftoff from Florida, is carrying a Mars-bound spacecraft. How to watch from Treasure Coast
Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, plans to challenge SpaceX with the powerful, partially reusable New Glenn rocket.
Blue Origin's long-awaited mission to launch its New Glenn rocket on a mission sending twin NASA spacecraft to Mars will have to wait a little longer.
Blue Origin will upgrade New Glenn ahead of its 3rd launch from Florida and will also one day soon debut a larger variant of the rocket.