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New Glenn Reaches Orbit, but Doesn't Recover the Booster
Thursday, January 16th, at 02:03 AM EST, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket took off on its maiden flight from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This was a momentous event for the company, as the two-stage heavy-lift rocket has been in development for many years, features a partially reusable design, and is vital to Bezos' plan of "building a road to space." While the company failed to retrieve the first-stage booster during the flight test, the rocket made it to orbit and successfully deployed its payload -the Blue Ring Pathfinder - to orbit (which has since begun gathering data).
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