Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Blue Origin known as off the debut launch of its massive new rocket early Monday due to technical bother.
The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was presupposed to blast off earlier than daybreak with a prototype satellite tv for pc from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. But launch controllers needed to cope with an unspecified “subsystem” rocket challenge within the remaining minutes of the countdown and ran out of time, Blue Origin said in a post on X. Once the countdown clock was halted, they instantly started draining all of the gas from the rocket.
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Blue Origin did not instantly set a brand new launch date, saying the group wanted extra time to resolve the issue.
The take a look at flight already had been delayed by tough seas that posed a danger to the corporate’s plan to land the first-stage booster on a floating platform within the Atlantic.
New Glenn is called after the primary American to orbit Earth, John Glenn. It’s 5 instances taller than Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos based the corporate 25 years in the past. He took half in Monday’s countdown from Mission Control, situated on the rocket manufacturing facility simply outdoors the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center about 50 miles east of Orlando, Florida.
No matter what occurs, Bezos stated Sunday night, “we will choose ourselves up and preserve going.”
