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<\/p>\nHeading east, the rocket will surpass the speed of sound in a little over a minute. After soaring through the stratosphere, New Glenn will shut down its seven booster engines and shed its first stage a little more than 3 minutes into the flight. Twin BE-3U engines, burning liquid hydrogen, will ignite to finish the job of sending the ESCAPADE satellites toward deep space. The rocket\u2019s trajectory will send the satellites toward a gravitationally-stable location beyond the Moon, called the L2 Lagrange point, where it will swing into a loosely-bound loiter orbit to wait for the right time to head for Mars.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the New Glenn booster, itself measuring nearly 20 stories tall, will begin maneuvers to head toward Blue Origin\u2019s recovery ship floating a few hundred miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. The final part of the descent will include a landing burn using three of the BE-4 engines, then downshifting to a single engine to control the booster\u2019s touchdown on the landing platform, dubbed \u201cJacklyn\u201d in honor of Bezos\u2019 late mother.<\/p>\n
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\n The launch timeline for New Glenn\u2019s second mission.<\/p>\n
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Blue Origin<\/p>\n
New Glenn\u2019s inaugural launch at the start of this year was a success, but the booster\u2019s descent did not go well. The rocket was unable to restart its engines, and it crashed into the sea.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve incorporated a number of changes to our propellant management system, some minor hardware changes as well, to increase our likelihood of landing that booster on this mission,\u201d said Laura Maginnis, Blue Origin\u2019s vice president of New Glenn mission management. \u201cThat was the primary schedule driver that kind of took us from from January to where we are today.\u201d<\/p>\n