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Blue Origin New Glenn Rockets postponed their first flight on January 16

2025-02-07 01:55:36|Myriagame |source:minecraft skins

IT Home Today (January 14) News, Blue Origin Aerospace, founded by billionaire Bezos, originally planned to launch its first NewGlenn heavy rocket in 2024, but after many delays,Coming to 2025.

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蓝色起源New Glenn火箭延期 1月16日首飞

There have been four more postponements in 2025. The official announced today that it will make another attempt on January 16, with the launch window period from 14 to 17:00 Beijing time, and a postponement may be announced at that time.

It is worth mentioning that the seventh test flight of SpaceX's starship was also postponed to January 16, aiming at 6 a.m. Beijing time for launch. Therefore, the coincidental collision between Blue Origin and SpaceX was also nicknamed "Zhongmen".Against the sniper.”

NewGlenn is the first orbital-stage launch vehicle of Blue Origin, about 98 meters high and uses a reusable first-stage booster.The booster is scheduled to return to Earth after launch and land on the Atlantic Ocean's recycling ship "Jacklyn", named after Jeff Bezos' mother.

It is reported that Blue Origin was founded in 2000 by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and has been developing New Glenn for about a decade.

Jarrett Jones, senior vice president of Blue Origin, said: "This is our first flight, and we are fully prepared for it, but no matter how many ground tests or mission simulations have been done before, it cannot be replaced.Flying this rocket. Regardless of whether this first flight is successful or not, we will learn, perfect this knowledge and apply it to our next release.”

“We know it’s very challenging to try to recycle boosters on the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, but we’re going to go all out.”