Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket on first test flight
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Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA's Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft a half-century ago.
Years in the making with heavy funding by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the 320-foot (98-meter) rocket carried an an experimental platform designed to host satellites or release them into their proper orbits. Company employees erupted in cheers and frenzied applause once the craft successfully reached orbit.
For this test, the satellite was expected to remain inside the second stage while circling Earth. The mission was expected to last six hours, with the second stage then placed in a safe condition to stay in a high, out-of-the-way orbit in accordance with NASA's practices for minimizing space junk.
The first-stage booster missed its landing on a barge in the Atlantic minutes after lift off so it could be recycled, but the company stressed that the No. 1 objective was for the test satellite to reach orbit. «What a fantastic day,» Blue Origin's launch commentator Ariane Cornell, said.
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