Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, has postponed the launch of its New Glenn rocket indefinitely, citing unfavorable weather conditions over its launch site in Florida. This delay may be difficult given the US federal government’s 40-day budget shutdown.
The American company explained, according to the live video, that the “cumulus system” made it difficult to shoot and was “examining the possibilities for the next attempt based on the weather forecast”.
To reduce airspace congestion and while air traffic controllers are no longer paid due to budget paralysis, the federal aviation regulator (FAA) will limit commercial rocket takeoffs starting Monday. This could complicate the future of the New Glenn rocket in the short term.
American billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, is preparing to make the second flight of its giant New Glenn rocket this Sunday, a new stage in its competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for Mars exploration.
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The mission of this 98 m high rocket is to send two NASA ESCAPADE spacecraft, named Blue and Gold, around the Red Planet to study its climate history and pave the way for possible human exploration.
The launch is also expected to be a litmus test to determine whether Blue Origin is able to recover its booster engines, which would be a major technical breakthrough for the American company. Only SpaceX has achieved this feat to date.
New Glenn’s maiden flight in January was hailed as a success because it put several dozen tons of equipment into orbit. But Blue Origin failed to find the first stage of the rocket on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
