Blue Origin to launch its first orbital rocket ‘New Glenn’

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s company ‘Blue Origin’ will launch its first orbital rocket ‘New Glenn’ on 10th January from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. New Glenn will carry a payload — Blue Ring Pathfinder, which will test key systems for the Defense Innovation Unit’s Orbital Logistics programme.

The company noted that the mission’s main aim is to reach orbit safely. It also plans to make an ambitious



landing of the booster in the Atlantic. In December, Blue Origin announced that New Glenn successfully completed the crucial hot-fire test. It was the first test of the integrated launch vehicle.

New Glenn which is 98 metres tall, is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built and launched. It is named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth, completing three orbits in 1962.