<p>Billionaire <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/jeff-bezos">Jeff Bezos</a>' space company Blue Origin aborted the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket from Florida on Monday following an issue with the vehicle subsystem. </p><p>Standing 30 stories tall, the partially reusable New Glenn launcher sat on Blue Origin's launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ready for a liftoff that was initially scheduled for 1:00 am ET (1130 IST) after being loaded with methane and liquid oxygen propellants.</p><p>But late in the countdown, Blue Origin repeatedly pushed back the liftoff time, inching closer to the end of New Glenn's launch window at 4 am. By 2:20am, a spokeswoman on a company live feed said mission teams were examining "a few anomalies," without explaining what those issues were.</p><p>Later, Blue origin confirmed that they were aborting the launch due to issues with the vehicle subsystem.</p>.<p>The mission, the culmination of a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar development journey, is to include an attempt to land New Glenn's first stage booster on a sea-fairing barge in the Atlantic Ocean 10 minutes after liftoff, while the rocket's second stage continues toward orbit.</p>.Explained | What January has to offer for stargazers.<p>"The thing we're most nervous about is the booster landing," Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000, told Reuters in a pre-launch interview. "Clearly on a first flight you could have an anomaly at any mission phase, so anything could happen."</p><p>Secured inside New Glenn's payload bay is the first prototype of Blue Origin's Blue Ring vehicle, a maneuverable spacecraft the company plans to sell to the Pentagon and commercial customers for national security and satellite servicing missions.</p><p>Getting the spacecraft to its intended orbit on an inaugural rocket launch would be a rare achievement for a space company.</p><p>"If we could do that, that would be a great success," Bezos said. "Landing the booster would be icing on the cake."</p><p>The development of New Glenn has spanned three Blue Origin CEOs and faced numerous delays as Elon Musk's SpaceX grew into an industry juggernaut with its reusable Falcon 9, the world's most active rocket.</p><p>Bezos in late 2023 moved to speed things up at Blue Origin, prioritizing the development of New Glenn and its BE-4 engines. He named Dave Limp, an Amazon veteran, as CEO, who employees say introduced a sense of urgency to compete with SpaceX.</p><p>New Glenn is more than twice as powerful as SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and has dozens of customer launch contracts collectively worth billions of dollars lined up.</p>.<p><em>(With Reuters Inputs)</em></p>
<p>Billionaire <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/jeff-bezos">Jeff Bezos</a>' space company Blue Origin aborted the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket from Florida on Monday following an issue with the vehicle subsystem. </p><p>Standing 30 stories tall, the partially reusable New Glenn launcher sat on Blue Origin's launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ready for a liftoff that was initially scheduled for 1:00 am ET (1130 IST) after being loaded with methane and liquid oxygen propellants.</p><p>But late in the countdown, Blue Origin repeatedly pushed back the liftoff time, inching closer to the end of New Glenn's launch window at 4 am. By 2:20am, a spokeswoman on a company live feed said mission teams were examining "a few anomalies," without explaining what those issues were.</p><p>Later, Blue origin confirmed that they were aborting the launch due to issues with the vehicle subsystem.</p>.<p>The mission, the culmination of a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar development journey, is to include an attempt to land New Glenn's first stage booster on a sea-fairing barge in the Atlantic Ocean 10 minutes after liftoff, while the rocket's second stage continues toward orbit.</p>.Explained | What January has to offer for stargazers.<p>"The thing we're most nervous about is the booster landing," Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000, told Reuters in a pre-launch interview. "Clearly on a first flight you could have an anomaly at any mission phase, so anything could happen."</p><p>Secured inside New Glenn's payload bay is the first prototype of Blue Origin's Blue Ring vehicle, a maneuverable spacecraft the company plans to sell to the Pentagon and commercial customers for national security and satellite servicing missions.</p><p>Getting the spacecraft to its intended orbit on an inaugural rocket launch would be a rare achievement for a space company.</p><p>"If we could do that, that would be a great success," Bezos said. "Landing the booster would be icing on the cake."</p><p>The development of New Glenn has spanned three Blue Origin CEOs and faced numerous delays as Elon Musk's SpaceX grew into an industry juggernaut with its reusable Falcon 9, the world's most active rocket.</p><p>Bezos in late 2023 moved to speed things up at Blue Origin, prioritizing the development of New Glenn and its BE-4 engines. He named Dave Limp, an Amazon veteran, as CEO, who employees say introduced a sense of urgency to compete with SpaceX.</p><p>New Glenn is more than twice as powerful as SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and has dozens of customer launch contracts collectively worth billions of dollars lined up.</p>.<p><em>(With Reuters Inputs)</em></p>
