Watch live: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos launches Blue Origin rocket to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX
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Watch live as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin attempts to launch its New Glenn rocket for the first time from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday, 13 January. It is the long-delayed debut launch of Mr Bezos's challenge to SpaceX's dominance in the satellite launch market.
The launch is a certification flight required by the US Space Force before New Glenn can launch lucrative Pentagon missions. Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder, wished Blue Origin well with a “Good luck!” message posted on his social media platform X. New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth.
According to Blue Origin, the rocket is “engineered with the safety and redundancy required to fly humans” and “will enable [its] vision of building a road to space for the benefit of Earth.”. Blue Origin said its key objective for Monday’s launch was to reach orbit safely, and anything beyond that was “icing on the cake.”.
