Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Scrapped Its Destroyed Launchpad and Plans to Return to Flight by December 2026 Using a New Hybrid Launch System.
Blue Origin’s May 28 explosion of its reusable, heavy-lift New Glenn rocket was a serious setback. It destroyed the rocket and damaged the only operational launchpad for Blue Origin’s heavy-lift rocket program. The company was trying to prove that its rocket could serve major customers, including Amazon‘s (AMZN +0.86%) satellite internet network, NASA’s Artemis lunar…