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Blue Origin launch: Is Jeff Bezos chasing down Elon Musk within the billionaire area race?

By Editorial Board Published January 12, 2025 5 Min Read
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Blue Origin launch: Is Jeff Bezos chasing down Elon Musk within the billionaire area race?

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is ready for the inaugural launch of its new area rocket on Monday in a improvement that would add extra gas to the billionaire area race.

The New Glenn rocket is because of blast off from Cape Canaveral – the results of a multi-billion greenback, decade-long effort that would set the stage for Amazon’s satellite tv for pc constellation enterprise and dent Elon Musk’s market share.

Mr Musk’s SpaceX has dominated the scene for a few years however each Mr Bezos and Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson have designs on outer area… and the wealth tied up in its exploration.

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New Glenn on the launch pad in December. Pic: Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin

“Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of traveling to space,” Mr Bezos stated forward of his journey to the sting of area in 2021.

He based the Blue Origin enterprise with the intention of getting “millions of people working and living in space”.

For years it has launched – and landed – its reusable New Shepard rocket to and from the brim of Earth’s ambiance, however has by no means despatched something into orbit. That might all change on Monday.

Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, delivers remarks at the grand opening of the Washington Post newsroom in Washington January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

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Jeff Bezos, founding father of Blue Origin and Amazon. Pic: Reuters

Blue Origin can be hoping its New Glenn rocket will be capable to compete with SpaceX’s Falcon 9, the world’s most lively rocket.

In comparison with Mr Musk’s Falcon 9, the New Glenn is about twice as highly effective and its payload bay diameter is 2 occasions bigger with the intention to match greater batches of satellites.

The upcoming launch can be a key certification flight required by the US House Pressure earlier than New Glenn can launch nationwide safety payloads as a part of multi-billion greenback authorities tenders Blue Origin hopes to win.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off for the Europa Clipper mission to study one of Jupiter's 95 moons, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. October 14, 2024. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off in October 2024. Pic: Reuters

Elon Musk and SpaceX

“I want to die on Mars – just not on impact,” Elon Musk as soon as quipped.

The Donald Trump ally, who’s incessantly pictured sporting an “Occupy Mars” shirt, has loved relative dominance of the non-public area business via his firm SpaceX.

Again in 2016, Mr Musk outlined his imaginative and prescient of constructing a colony on Mars “in our lifetimes” – with the primary rocket propelling people to the Crimson Planet by 2025, although this deadline doesn’t seem more likely to be met.

Mr Musk and Mr Trump speak at launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in 2020. Pic: Reuters

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump communicate at a SpaceX launch in 2020. Pic: Reuters

For a few years the corporate used a picture of the Martian floor being terraformed (turned Earth-like) in its promotional materials. Nonetheless, a NASA-sponsored research printed in 2018 dismissed these plans as unimaginable with the know-how out there then.

SpaceX missions have included each US authorities contracts and launching the corporate’s Starlink satellite tv for pc web community.

And whereas Mr Bezos’ New Glenn rocket is rather more highly effective than the profitable Falcon 9, SpaceX’s next-generation Starship, a totally reusable rocket system at present in improvement, could be extra highly effective nonetheless.

Mr Musk sees Starship as essential to increasing Starlink’s footprint in orbit. Its subsequent take a look at flight is anticipated later this month and can contain deploying mock satellites.

 Sir Richard Branson

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Sir Richard Branson. Pic: Reuters

Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic

Additionally looking for a stake within the higher ambiance is Virgin founder Sir Richard, whose Virgin Galactic effort took its first vacationers to the sting of area in 2023.

The crew took the passengers about 55 miles (88km) above Earth the place they skilled zero gravity in the course of the flight which lasted simply over an hour.

“My mum taught me to never give up and to reach for the stars,” the British billionaire as soon as stated.

The corporate is at present taking a pause from flights because it develops new area autos, Forbes reported in October final 12 months.

Its new fleet of Delta autos are scheduled to renew industrial spaceflight by 2026.

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