Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin targeting late spring for 2nd launch of powerful New Glenn rocket

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Washington, DC, can be the new new launch of the new Blue Origen Glenn Rockets a few months away.

320 feet (98 meters) New Glen It was first raised on January 16 from the space coast in Florida. Test trip Success; The upper stage of the missile succeeded in its useful load, a test version of the new Blue Ring Blue Ring platform, to Earth Orbit.

The secondary goal did not go well; The supporter in New Glenn in the first stage failed to stick to it on a ship in the sea. (This was the expected result, and the company confirmed; the successful landing on the first trip would be a pleasant surprise.) Blue origin He says he has entered into the potential cause of the supporter and plans to try again soon.

It seems that the enhanced engines were working well during the drop sequence, but “we could not get everything in the engine from the tanks. Therefore, we believe that we understand what the problems are” a talk on Wednesday (February 12) here at the twenty -seventh annual commercial space conference.

He did not specify these issues, describing it as a “mixture of two things.” LIMP added that the blue origin is making some changes to the new supporter New New Glenn to increase the chances of success success.

“The amendments are not complicated,” he said. “I don’t think it will delay our way to fly. I think we can still fly in late spring.”

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Blue Orige was still not announced the load (the load) that will fly at the launch of the second New Glenn, and LIMP said the company “is still looking for opportunities.”

“If it comes to this and we just have to transfer the mass simulation, we will fly a group simulation,” he said.

He added that the company is looking at the first three Glenn New launching as development trials, but it has commercial customers of the missile from Flight 4 Onward.

New Glenn, which was under development for about a decade, can carry 50 tons (45 metric tons) of the load Low Earth orbit (Leo). Its load of 23 feet (7 meters)-the shell that surrounds and protects satellites during the launch-is larger than any operating missile.