Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ private space company in the background Blue Origin again after a long time New Glenn with on the agenda.
Blue Origin, which is currently not even close to SpaceX in any area, wants to change that in the future. For this, a much more powerful and larger rocket called New Glenn with Blue Moon is actively working on a lunar vehicle called . New Glenn was last in the news when it was positioned for testing on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. New Glenn’s first launch was delayed from 2020 to 2021 and then to 2022. Today, it was announced that the first commercial takeoff will take place on October 13th. In this launch, New Glenn will launch two different spacecraft into orbit, developed by Rocket Lab to assist NASA in Mars research. It is capable of delivering approximately 100,000 pounds (45 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit. It is stated that this is above the Vulcan rocket signed by United Launch Alliance and the Falcon 9 rocket signed by SpaceX, and below the Falcon Heavy, also prepared by SpaceX.
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Blue Origin made headlines in recent months after successfully completing a mission called NS-24. Within the scope of this unmanned mission, reusable structures such as the SpaceX Falcon 9 New Shepard rocket (It was the 24th departure in total.) used to carry 33 different science and research loads as well as some cargo into the sky. Due to some technical problems, it has not been able to operate since September 2022 and has undergone a major FAA investigation. Blue Originattracted attention by finally becoming operational again.