{"id":253395,"date":"2025-11-09T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253395\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:57:12","slug":"jeff-bezos-blue-origin-rocket-set-to-launch-first-nasa-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253395\/","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":253396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[105427,2339,103677,2841,8897,395,9027,105428,90,416,7794,1208,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-253395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-blue-origin-llc","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-dave-limp","tag-florida","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-mars","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-rocket-lab-corp","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}