The New Glenn rocket, developed by Blue Origin, was scheduled to make its very first liftoff Monday from Florida. The launch was postponed due to unspecified technical issues.
Blue Origin was to launch its large New Glenn rocket for the first time on Monday, January 13, an inaugural flight expected to be a turning point for the company founded by American billionaire Jeff Bezos, and potentially the private space industry. After years of design and multiple postponements, this 98 meter high rocket, the size of a building of approximately 30 floors, ultimately did not take off. The takeoff was postponed 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,” Ariane Cornell, a Blue Origin executive, said during a live broadcast to which attended by hundreds of thousands of spectators.
The objective was clear: “Reach orbit. Anything beyond that is a bonus,” said David Limp, CEO of Blue Origin. If the company of the founder of Amazon has already been taking tourists for a few minutes into space for years thanks to its smaller New Shepard rocket, it has so far not carried out any flight into orbit.
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