Blue Origin has abandoned a liftoff attempt today for its New Glenn rocket, confirming that it stalled just over two hours into the vehicle’s launch window.
Rocket fanatics who were up at 0600 UTC to open the launch window experienced repeated resets of the countdown clock before Jeff Besoz’s company finally gave up, citing problems with the subsystem.
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During the broadcast to the scrub, reference was made to the “issues” the company had been working on throughout the countdown. So the decision to cancel the launch after several countdown resets was not a huge surprise, especially considering that this was the rocket’s first launch.
Blue Origin is in good company. For example, NASA canceled an Artemis I launch attempt due to a liquid hydrogen leak. Monster rocket finally I got off the pillow In November 2022. It’s unlikely there will be a months-long delay before Blue Origin tries again, but the company has not revealed the next launch date.
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Blue Origin has faced many challenges to get to this point. In addition to some major technical snags, weather-related complications in the past few days have hampered the launch attempt — Blue Origin would like to try to recover the first stage using a floating platform, but high seas have recently prevented that. days, although it was not the primary goal of the test flight.
In addition to weather, range issues can also cause headaches for Blue Origin. With Blue Origin’s New Glenn spacecraft remaining at Launch Complex 36, the SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center’s LC-39A on January 15. The mission will carry lunar landers in the form of Japan’s Hakuto-R 2 mission and Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost M2, which will carry ten NASA payloads to the lunar surface. ®