January 16, 2025

The New Glenn rocket blasting off in its NG-1 mission (Image courtesy Blue Origin)

A little while ago, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket was launched on its maiden mission, called NG-1. For the occasion, it was carrying a prototype of the Blue Ring, a space platform that has the purpose of carrying payloads to be put into orbit, also under development by Blue Origin. The second stage worked correctly and the Blue Ring separated reaching the planned orbit. The secondary objective was to land the first stage, which didn’t succeed.