


Blue Origin canceled its New Glenn rocket’s debut launch in Florida on Monday, citing an unspecified technical problem.
New Glenn was slated to deliver a satellite prototype to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The rocket’s first booster was meant to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch, a stunt that has previously delayed the launch when the waters were rough. This time, Blue Origin explained its engineers would need “to troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue” that indefinitely delayed the launch.
“We’re reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt,” Blue Origin wrote on X.
The space company, owned by Jeff Bezos since he started it 25 years ago, has seen success with its New Shepard passenger rockets that take paying customers into space from Texas. However, at 320 feet, New Glenn is five times taller than the New Shepard rocket.
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Bezos was present Monday at Blue Origin’s Mission Control, which sits on a rocket factory on the outskirts of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The CEO foreshadowed problems with the launch on Sunday when he promised, “We’re going to pick ourselves up and keep going.”
This newest rocket is named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth.