{"id":20200,"date":"2025-01-16T07:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T08:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20200"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:29:55","slug":"new-glenns-journey-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20200","title":{"rendered":"New Glenn\u2019s journey to space."},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos\u2019 space company sent its first rocket into orbit.<\/p>\n

At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket, barely moving at first, nudged upward, and then accelerated in an arc over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

Thirteen minutes later, the second stage of New Glenn reached orbit.<\/p>\n

The launch was a major success for Blue Origin, Mr. Bezos\u2019 rocket company, and it should quiet some critics who say that the company has been too slow compared with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/p>\n

While Mr. Bezos talked of an ambitious vision of millions of people working and living in space, skeptics had long pointed out that Blue Origin had not sent a single thing to orbit since the company was founded nearly a quarter century ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now it has.<\/p>\n

Blue Origin still lags far behind SpaceX in accomplishments \u2014 Mr. Musk\u2019s company launched more than 100 times last year. But New Glenn looks to be a vehicle that can offer long-awaited competition for SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, which currently dominate the launch industry.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know about Thursday\u2019s launch:<\/p>\n

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    The rocket<\/strong>: New Glenn is a bit taller than the Statue of Liberty. It can lift 45 metric tons to low-Earth orbit and possesses a greater payload volume than other rockets currently in operation. It carried a prototype of Blue Ring, a vehicle Blue Origin is developing to move payloads to different orbits after they go to space.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Why the launch window was in the very early morning: <\/strong>The Federal Aviation Administration dictated that it happen then. \u201cThat launch window, it interferes less with aviation,\u201d Mr. Bezos said in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Blue Origin\u2019s stretch goal did not succeed<\/strong>: New Glenn\u2019s booster stage, intended to be reusable, failed in its attempt to land on a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Blue Origin knew this was an ambitious and difficult feat to pull off during a rocket\u2019s debut flight, and had named the booster \u201cSo You\u2019re Telling Me There\u2019s a Chance.\u201d It turned out there was not a chance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos\u2019 space company sent its first rocket into orbit.At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket, barely moving at first, nudged upward, and then accelerated in an arc over the Atlantic Ocean.Thirteen minutes later, the second stage of New Glenn reached orbit.The launch was a major success for Blue Origin, Mr. Bezos\u2019 rocket company, and it should quiet some critics who say that the company has been too slow compared with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX.While Mr. Bezos talked of an ambitious vision of millions of people working and living in space, skeptics had long pointed out that Blue Origin had not sent a single thing to orbit since the company was founded nearly a quarter century ago.Now it has.Blue Origin still lags far behind SpaceX in accomplishments \u2014 Mr. Musk\u2019s company launched more than 100 times last year. But New Glenn looks to be a vehicle that can offer long-awaited competition for SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, which currently dominate the launch industry.Here\u2019s what you need to know about Thursday\u2019s launch:The rocket: New Glenn is a bit taller than the Statue of Liberty. It can lift 45 metric tons to low-Earth orbit and possesses a greater payload volume than other rockets currently in operation. It carried a prototype of Blue Ring, a vehicle Blue Origin is developing to move payloads to different orbits after they go to space.Why the launch window was in the very early morning: The Federal Aviation Administration dictated that it happen then. \u201cThat launch window, it interferes less with aviation,\u201d Mr. Bezos said in an interview.Blue Origin\u2019s stretch goal did not succeed: New Glenn\u2019s booster stage, intended to be reusable, failed in its attempt to land on a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Blue Origin knew this was an ambitious and difficult feat to pull off during a rocket\u2019s debut flight, and had named the booster \u201cSo You\u2019re Telling Me There\u2019s a Chance.\u201d It turned out there was not a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2528,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20202,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200\/revisions\/20202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}