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Blue Origin Livestreams What's Potentially Its First Orbital Rocket Launch
Blue Origin is attempting its very first orbital flight tonight. And they'll also attempt to land their reusable Stage 1 on a drone in the Atlantic ocean. The rocket is fueled on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, awaiting ignition. Its three-hour launch window has just opened. And Blue...
And they'll also attempt to land their reusable Stage 1 on a drone in the Atlantic ocean.But whatever happens tonight, Ars Technica's senior space editor Eric Berger got to talk to a "affable and anxious" Jeff Bezos:"It's pretty exciting, isn't it?" Bezos also pointed out that 7% of all the people who have ever flown into space have done so on a Blue Origin vehicle — including himself, an experience he told Ars Technica"is kind of hard to beat... That really was very meaningful for a whole bunch of reasons. Space.com notes that the launch "was initially scheduled for Jan. 10 and then Jan. 12, but Blue Origin postponed it due to rough offshore weather that could affect a rocket landing on the company's recovery ship in the Atlantic."
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