Blue Origin’s second New Glenn rocket simply made a giant transfer.
Jeff Bezos’ firm rolled a New Glenn first stage out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station in Florida on Wednesday (Oct. 8) to assist prep the automobile for its upcoming liftoff.
That launch, which is anticipated to happen late this month or in November, will ship NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes to Mars.
New Glenn stands about 320 ft tall (98 meters) when totally stacked. Like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, the Blue Origin launcher contains a reusable first stage.
Mission quantity two is an operational flight: It’s going to ship the 2 ESCAPADE (“Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers”) orbiters rocketing towards the Pink Planet, the place they may examine the Martian environment and the way it’s affected by the photo voltaic wind and house climate.
These two probes — that are named Blue and Gold, and had been constructed by the California-based firm Rocket Lab — arrived on Florida’s House Coast on Sept. 22.
Wednesday was a giant day for Blue Origin. That very same morning, the corporate despatched six folks to and from suborbital house on its New Shepard automobile.
The mission, which launched from Blue Origin’s West Texas website, was the corporate’s fifteenth human spaceflight and the thirty sixth general launch of the New Shepard system.
