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Blue Origin's New Glenn Sends NASA Satellites To Mars, Earns Plaudits From SpaceX Boss Elon Musk
The launch date had been pushed back several times over the past few days due to bad weather. ・Besides delivering the two NASA satellites to their designated loiter orbit, the first-stage booster, named “Never Tell Me The Odds,
SpaceX has delivered a new animated look at the launch of Starship to Mars. See the launch, Super Heavy booster re-entry and 'chopsticks' capture, on-orbit fueling and journey to the surface of the Red Planet.
Staff cheered as the booster landed upright on its platform 375 miles (600km) offshore in the Atlantic Ocean - something Blue Origin has never managed before with a rocket so large.
A geomagnetic storm on Earth triggered by a large burst of solar radiation has temporarily grounded a Blue Origin rocket carrying twin NASA satellites built to measure space weather on Mars.