Blue Origin gets its New Glenn rocket back on track with new test

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Achieved an important milestone this weekcompleted its first second stage hot fire test that validates interactions between subsystems, its two BE-3U engines and the ground control system. The test lasted 15 seconds and allowed the launch operations team to practice launch procedures in the lead-up to New Glenn’s planned November launch.

New Glenn is Blue Origin’s big rocket answer to SpaceX. sending things into spaceBut Jeff Bezos’ company Slowly progressing forward And so far it has only conducted tourist flights to suborbital space using its New Shepard rocket. New Glenn was supposed to launch SmallSat Escaped as its first mission with NASA this year, but it did not come to fruition. Recently cancelled,

Now, New Glenn’s first mission (NG-1) will be to carry the company’s new Blue Ring The spacecraft will be sent into space via an orbital platform. Blue Origin plans to launch the mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida this November.