The launch of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard rocket on Monday got pushed back.
The Jeff Bezos-founded aerospace company said on social media and its blog that it would set a “new launch target” for the week “soon.”
It pointed to a “ground system issue” that Blue Origin workers were “troubleshooting” as the reason for pushing back the NS-24 mission that would become New Shepard’s first suborbital flight since September 2022.
Blue Origin had originally planned for takeoff of the rocket to happen around 8:30 a.m. Central. Prior to the scrub, cold temperatures had prompted the company to adjust that time by one hour, the blog showed.
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The planned NS-24 launch had first been revealed last week. Blue Origin had said the New Shepard rocket would bring 33 payloads and 38,000 Club for America student-written postcards with it on its suborbital flight.
The company’s last New Shepard mission,…
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