The maiden flight of the giant New Glenn rocket from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ company will have to wait a little longer: his company Blue Origin canceled the launch due to unspecified technical problems.
Blue Origin was to launch its large New Glenn rocket for the first time on Monday, an inaugural flight that looks like a turning point for the company founded by the American billionaire, and potentially the private space industry.
“We are abandoning the launch attempt to resolve a vehicle subsystem problem that would take us beyond our firing window,” Ariane Cornell, a Blue Origin executive, said during a live broadcast to which attended by hundreds of thousands of spectators.
-This rocket, which took years to design and whose launch has already been postponed multiple times, measures 98 meters, the size of a building of around 30 floors.
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