{"id":61881,"date":"2025-11-14T23:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=61881"},"modified":"2025-11-27T23:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:15:32","slug":"blue-origins-great-success-with-the-vertical-landing-of-its-new-glenn-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/11\/14\/blue-origins-great-success-with-the-vertical-landing-of-its-new-glenn-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin's great success with the vertical landing of its New Glenn rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, the space race has achieved a new success with the second company to achieve a reusable rocket capable of landing.<\/p>\n

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The first vertical landing of a rocket was a milestone achieved by Elon Musk's SpaceX<\/strong> in December 2015, almost ten years ago, with a Falcon 9 rocket. Since then, no other company or space agency had achieved this.<\/strong> Until now.<\/p>\n

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This Thursday, November 13, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin finally achieved this feat.<\/strong> It did so with the first stage of its New Glenn rocket<\/strong>, named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth.<\/p>\n

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The first flight of the New Glenn, NG-1, took place on January 16, 2025, at 7:03 UTC<\/strong> from the United States Space Force Station at Cape Canaveral (CCSFS), Florida. On that occasion, the first stage was lost during descent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The second flight of the New Glen, the NG-2, began at 20:55 UTC on Thursday, November 13<\/strong> with the launch of the rocket from the CCSFS LC-36 platform.<\/p>\n

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The rocket successfully deployed two twin spacecraft, nicknamed Blue and Gold<\/strong>, into their designated waiting orbit. These spacecraft, part of NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESPACADE) program, are designed to explore the magnetosphere of Mars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A few minutes after liftoff, the rocket's first stage successfully landed vertically on Blue Origin's Jacklyn barge<\/strong>. This moment was met with euphoria at Blue Origin flight control.<\/p>\n

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You can watch the video of the flight broadcast here.<\/strong> I've set it to start at the moment the final countdown began (1:43:07 in the video). At 1:51:49 in the video, we see the first-stage engines ignite for landing.<\/strong> The spacecraft touches down at 1:52:34 in the video.<\/p>\n