{"id":130443,"date":"2025-11-09T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/130443\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:44:07","slug":"jeff-bezos-blue-origin-rocket-set-to-launch-first-nasa-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/130443\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin Rocket Set to Launch First NASA Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Jeff Bezos-backed space company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/5043517Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Blue Origin LLC<\/a> is slated to launch its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sunday, a crucial test in the startup\u2019s quest to challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SpaceX<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The rocket, roughly 320 feet (97.5 meters) tall, will be sending two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/RKLB:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Rocket Lab Corp<\/a>.-made spacecraft toward Mars to study how solar winds interact with the planet\u2019s atmosphere. The mission, called <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/escapade\/\" title=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Escapade<\/a> (for \u201cEscape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers\u201d) is New Glenn\u2019s first for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/29638Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">NASA<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos-backed space company Blue Origin LLC is slated to launch its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[76199,15704,74107,2195,61,60,3916,2704,22442,76200,82,1337,1884,80],"class_list":["post-130443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-blue-origin-llc","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-dave-limp","tag-florida","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-mars","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-rocket-lab-corp","tag-science","tag-space-exploration","tag-startups","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130443","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=130443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}