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Blue Origin launches a NASA spacecraft to Mars - heating up the space race with Elon Musk's SpaceX
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has launched two NASA spacecraft destined for Mars, in the latest sign that the race with Elon Musk's SpaceX is heating up. The company's massive New Glenn rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, at 15: ...
Watch Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket launch a NASA 'ESCAPADE' to Mars today after weather delay
Blue Origin is standing down from today's New Glenn rocket launch attempt due to ongoing geomagnetic storms caused by multiple coronal mass ejections from a highly energetic sunspot. In a post on X, Blue Origin says the launch attempt was cancelled "due to highly elevated solar activity and its potential effects on the ESCAPADE spacecraft.