Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Launches on its Inaugural Flight Written 16 January 2025
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New Glenn at liftoff during the NG-1 mission, January 16, 2025. | Credit: Blue Origin
Scientific American reports, “A few minutes after 2:00 A.M. EST, a hulking, 320-foot-tall rocket slipped its tethers at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and heaved itself into the sky on a bluish-white pillar of flame, briefly turning night into day along the eastern shore of Florida’s Space Coast. About 8 minutes later, the rocket’s large, first-stage booster failed to stick its landing on a barge in the Atlantic—not exactly the desired outcome, but not unusual for the first attempt to land a booster upright.”
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New Glenn at liftoff during the NG-1 mission, January 16, 2025. (Launch at 04:00:41 mark)
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