Blue Origin Poised To Pick Up Pace Of New Glenn Launches

New Glenn rocket

Blue Origin became the second company after SpaceX to recover an orbital-class booster.

Credit: Blue Origin
Blue Origin took 10 months to address the one part of its first New Glenn rocket launch that was not successful: landing the booster. That milestone was met with New Glenn-2 (NG-2), which lifted off from Cape Canaveral SFS on Nov. 13 with the primary goal of dispatching a pair of NASA science...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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