{"id":17146,"date":"2025-01-15T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-launches-new-glenn-rocket-to-orbit-for-the-first-time-marking-a-milestone-for-jeff-bezos\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:41:21","slug":"blue-origin-launches-new-glenn-rocket-to-orbit-for-the-first-time-marking-a-milestone-for-jeff-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-launches-new-glenn-rocket-to-orbit-for-the-first-time-marking-a-milestone-for-jeff-bezos\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time, marking a milestone for Jeff Bezos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket rises up from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a pillar of bluish flame. (Photo Courtesy of Trevor Mahlmann) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the first time ever, Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit, using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.<\/p>\n

The two-stage rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:03 a.m. ET Thursday (11:03 p.m. PT tonight). Cheers could be heard coming from Blue Origin employees watching the launch.<\/p>\n

After stage separation, New Glenn\u2019s first-stage booster executed an autonomous descent with the aim of landing on a barge stationed hundreds of miles offshore.<\/p>\n

The booster, nicknamed \u201cSo You\u2019re Telling Me There\u2019s a Chance,\u201d missed the target. \u201cWe did in fact lose the booster,\u201d launch commentator Ariane Cornell said. Landing the booster would have been a bonus, but it wasn\u2019t considered a requirement for mission success.<\/p>\n

The prime objective of the mission, known as NG-1, was to test the communications and control systems for Blue Ring, a multi-mission space mobility platform that\u2019s under development at Blue Origin.<\/p>\n

For Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin, and for Bezos, the mere fact that New Glenn made it to orbit was at least as significant as the Blue Ring Pathfinder test. Although the company has launched smaller New Shepard rockets on suborbital spaceflights for a decade, it had never before put a payload into Earth orbit. <\/p>\n

That changed tonight.<\/p>\n

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