Blue Origin Eyes Return To Flight Before Year-End

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Space Launch Complex 36.

Credit: John Kraus/NASA
Despite extensive damage from the explosion of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on its launchpad, the company is aiming to return to flight before the end of 2026. The blast at Cape Canaveral SFS occurred at 9 p.m. EDT May 28 at the start of what was expected to be a routine, preflight static firing...
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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