Blue Origin announces postponement of the launch of its New Glenn rocket

Blue Origin announces the postponement of the first launch of its giant New Glenn rocket. The event was canceled last night due to technical problems.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company will have to wait again for the maiden flight of its large New Glenn rocket after its launch overnight from Sunday to Monday was canceled due to unspecified technical problems.

“We are abandoning the launch attempt to resolve a vehicle subsystem problem that would take us beyond our firing window,” said Ariane Cornell, a Blue Origin executive, during a live broadcast to which attended by hundreds of thousands of spectators.

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