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Blue Origin Reaches Orbit, Booster Misses Landing in Debut
- It’s critical to Bezos firm’s launch business, moon missions
- New Glenn development has been delayed by numerous setbacks
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Blue Origin LLC’s new flagship rocket lifted off for the first time and successfully reached orbit in a crucial test of the Jeff Bezos-backed firm’s ability to challenge SpaceX’s ironclad grip on the launch market.
New Glenn thundered off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida at 2:03 a.m. local time on Thursday. The mission, which is expected to last several hours, put the company’s Blue Ring Pathfinder test satellite into orbit — the main objective of the flight.