"We expect to return to flight in late spring and will attempt to land the booster again", the landing failure was "due to our three #BE4 engines not reigniting properly". https://gazette.com/news/us-world/blue-origin-targets-late-spring-for-next-new-glenn-launch-after-faa-probe/article_c5f9e31f-778d-570b-92be-8854d99ba52c.html

Jeff Bezos' #BlueOrigin space venture and its #NewGlenn rocket join #SpaceX and #UnitedLaunchAlliance on the latest #SpaceForce list for future national security launch contracts worth up to $13.7 billion. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/space-force-national-security-launch-blue-origin/

#Amazon is under time pressure . The license issued by the US regulatory authorities for the operation of #satellite internet in 2020 requires half of the satellite network to be completed by July 2026. The rest must be in orbit by July 2029 . More than 30 additional launches are planned with other companies, such as #Arianespace and #BlueOrigin. Even the competitor #SpaceX is helping out https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-the-first-internet-satellites-for-Project-Kuiper-next-week-10338214.html

“The euphemism among #BlueOrigin alumni is that Blue Origin’s track record speaks for itself”. The company has reached #orbit only once, compared with #SpaceX achieving the feat more than 450 times https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/jeff-bezos-brings-amazon-work-culture-to-blue-origin

Des morceaux de la coiffe de la #NewGlenn ont été retrouvés sur une plage des Caraïbes

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#BlueOrigin : "we're going to try to make the expendable upper stage so #cheap to manufacture that a reusable stage can never compete with it. And we're going to try to make the #reusable stage so operable that an expendable stage can never compete with it."

Now is the time when the real movement, the kind of golden age of #space , is going to happen. The next big step is in situ resource development https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/01/after-the-success-of-new-glenn-blue-origin-to-focus-on-launching-frequently/