{"id":125500,"date":"2025-11-06T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125500\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:24:09","slug":"blue-origins-second-new-glenn-launch-will-carry-real-nasa-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125500\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin’s second New Glenn launch will carry real NASA satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blue Origin has announced<\/a> a target date for New Glenn\u2019s<\/a> second launch: November 9. This time, the mission will deploy real payloads, not just carry a technological demo for the company. Specifically, the spacecraft will be carrying the NASA Escapade mission\u2019s<\/a> twin satellites, which are headed to Mars. New Glenn, Blue Origin\u2019s heavy-lift launch vehicle that was designed to be reused for a minimum of 25 flights, had its maiden flight in January<\/a>. While the rocket made it to space, the company failed to land its first stage on its recovery ship in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

In a tweet, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said it won\u2019t be a problem if it fails to stick the landing again. \u201cWe’ve got several more New Glenn boosters already in production,\u201d he said. The mission\u2019s primary goal, he clarified, is to get the Escapade satellites safely into orbit.<\/p>\n

Mars missions typically launch during a narrow window of time when the red planet and the Earth are aligned. It\u2019s a phenomenon that only happens once every two years. Colorado aerospace company Advanced Space designed Escapade\u2019s trajectory for Mars missions that do not launch within that timeframe. The satellites will linger in the L2 Lagrange point between the sun and the Earth for a year. In November 2026, they will do a slingshot around our planet in order to reach Mars sometime in 2027 during that once-in-every-two-year alignment. \u201cCan we launch to Mars when the planets are not aligned? Escapade is paving the way for that,\u201d said Jeffrey Parker of Advanced Space.<\/p>\n

New Glenn will lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station\u2019s Launch Complex 36. The company is aiming for a 2:45 PM Eastern time launch on November 9. As SpaceNews<\/a> notes, the US government shutdown could limit NASA\u2019s coverage, though the agency is still expected to livestream the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Origin has announced a target date for New Glenn\u2019s second launch: November 9. This time, the mission…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[8971,74107,61,60,9592,13611,74106,73533,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-125500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-blue-origin","9":"tag-dave-limp","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-launch-vehicle","13":"tag-mars-missions","14":"tag-nasa-escapade","15":"tag-new-glenn","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}