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The rocket has been launched from the launch pad in Florida.
Blue Origin, the space company of billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of e-commerce company Amazon, successfully tested the New Glenn rocket on Thursday. The rocket was launched from the US state of Florida at 2 am local time. Rocket has achieved this success in the very first attempt. Earlier its launch was postponed.
The rocket placed a prototype satellite into orbit. It completed its mission just 13 minutes after launch. The length of this huge rocket is 98 meters. It has been designed to take astronauts to the Moon.
The rocket has 7 engines. All engines were fired for more than 3 minutes before the rocket’s first stage separated. The rocket was launched from the same launch pad that launched the Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft 50 years ago.
This rocket is named after America’s first astronaut John Glenn.
Successful landing of booster could not be done
Apart from rocket launching, there was a plan to land its booster safely in the sea. However, the booster could not land at its designated place. Jeff Bezos also apologized on this.
These boosters have been designed to be reused. It has been designed on the lines of SpaceX’s Falcon rocket, so that the cost of future missions can be reduced.
The booster was to land on a platform named Jacqueline in the sea. Bezos has named this platform after his mother. During landing, live data from the rocket was cut off before the booster engines even started.
Later the booster was reported lost.
Rocket can be used in Mars mission
The New Glenn rocket may complete its first official mission this year. American space agency NASA wants to launch two orbiters on Mars this year. For this, NASA wants to use Blue Origin’s rocket. Blue Origin also has several commercial missions.
These also include the mission related to launching Amazon’s Internet satellite. Blue Origin hopes that this rocket will be capable of carrying satellites weighing up to 3000 kg.
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