CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin filled its New Glenn rocket with propellants on Thursday morning for its debut launch from Florida, the company’s second attempt this week to get the rocket in space and kick start its rivalry with SpaceX in the satellite launch market.
Thirty stories tall with a reusable first stage filled with liquid oxygen and methane, New Glenn stood on Blue Origin’s launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station under cloudy skies for its inaugural launch, scheduled between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. ET (0600-0900 GMT)
Blue Origin paused the countdown clock some 20 minutes before the start of New Glenn’s launch window as U.S. Space Force launch weather models showed a 60% chance of weather forcing a scrub to another day.
(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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