Blue Origin, founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is preparing for its inaugural orbital rocket launch, the New Glenn, challenging SpaceX's dominance in the commercial space market.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Named New Glenn , the rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as soon as Wednesday 1:00 am (0600 GMT), with a backup window on Friday, according to a Federal Aviation Administration advisory.
While Blue Origin has not officially confirmed the launch date, excitement has been building since a successful “hotfire” test on December 27. “Next stop launch,“ Bezos declared on X, sharing a video of the towering rocket’s engines roaring to life. The NG-1 mission will carry a prototype of Blue Ring, a Defense Department-funded spacecraft envisioned as a versatile satellite deployment platform, which will remain on board the rocket’s second stage for the duration of the six-hour test flight. It will mark Blue Origin’s long-awaited entry into the lucrative orbital launch market after years of suborbital flights with its smaller New Shepard rocket, which carries passengers and payloads on brief trips to the edge of space. “The market is really orbital,“ analyst Laura Forczyk, founder of Astralytical, told AFP. “Suborbital can only take you so far -- there are only so many payloads and customers for a quick ride to space.”The milestone will also escalate the rivalry between Bezos, the world’s second-richest person, and Musk, the wealthiest, who has cemented SpaceX’s dominance and is now in President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets have become industry workhorses, serving clients from commercial satellite operators to the Pentagon and NASA, which relies on them to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Like Falcon 9, New Glenn features a reusable first stage designed to land vertically on a ship at se
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