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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket blasts off in first launch

16 January 2025
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2025-01-16 18:38

Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its massive New Glenn rocket for the first time early Thursday, a livestream of the blastoff showed.

The rocket, whose inaugural mission had been delayed by several years, blasted of at 2.03am from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in the US state of Florida, the webcast showed. The mission is seen as critical to Blue Origin's efforts to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX, which dominates the commercial space industry.

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