The New Glenn rocket from the Blue Origin space company of billionaire Jeff Bezos launched on Thursday from Cape Florida. Two NASA satellites have been launched into orbit and will fly to Mars. The reusable booster landed successfully.
The powerful two-stage rocket's maiden flight since its maiden launch in January and the booster's successful landing at sea were key milestones for Blue Origin in its bid to compete head-to-head with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
About 10 minutes after liftoff, the 17-story-tall first stage of the booster reversed landing on the deck of a barge. It is named after Bezos' mother and is drifting in the Atlantic. This marks a major milestone for Blue Origin in the area of media reusability. Xrust notes that SpaceX is a pioneer here.
The launch Thursday of NASA's sister spacecraft EscaPADE became the first science payload Blue Origin has carried into space for NASA. There were cheers at Blue Origin's Rocket Park Mission Control Center in Cape Canaveral as the booster landing, dubbed «Never Tell Me the Odds,» was captured on video.
About 20 minutes later, Mission Control confirmed that New Glenn's upper stage had completed its primary mission of launching the EscaPADE spacecraft into outer space to begin its 22-month journey to Mars.
Xrust Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launched Martian satellites into orbit
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