{"id":565600,"date":"2025-11-12T13:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/565600\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:11:21","slug":"blue-origin-targets-nov-12-new-glenn-launch-following-weekend-weather-scrub-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/565600\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin targets Nov. 12 New Glenn launch following weekend weather scrub \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket designed for the NG-2 mission is pictured at sunset at Launch Complex 36, the evening of Nov. 8, 2025. The rocket will carry NASA\u2019s ESCAPADE mission along with a payload demonstration for Viasat. Image: Adam Bernstein \/ Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n

Blue Origin is stepping back up to the plate to take another crack at launching its 98-meter-tall (321 ft) New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday, Nov. 12.<\/p>\n

A confluence of poor weather, an errant cruise ship in the keep out zone and a ground systems issue at the pad were roadblocks to a Sunday launch attempt. In rescheduling the mission, Blue Origin said in a social media post that it was avoiding poor weather on Monday and Tuesday, but didn\u2019t mention the status of the ground systems issue.<\/p>\n

The company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is now targeting liftoff from Launch Complex 36 during an 87-minute window that opens at 2:50 p.m. EST (1950 UTC) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about three hours prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n

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The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a greater than 95 percent chance of liftoff during the window, citing no concerns for meteorological impacts that would prevent launch. Teams did highlight the booster recovery zone as watch item, stating that it was a \u201cmoderate\u201d risk on a low-moderate-high scale. Space weather could also be an issue.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday afternoon, NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center forecast a G4 Severe Watch connected to a coronal mass ejection first detected on Sunday, Nov. 9. It noted that this is just the fourth G4 Watch issued this solar cycle, making it \u201cvery rare,\u201d and added that impacts are expected \u201cabout midday on Nov. 12.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA CME is anticipated to arrive at and partially impact Earth around midday, 12 Nov; with the potential for elevated geomagnetic response and dependent upon the orientation of the embedded magnetic field, potential exists for Severe Storm levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket designed for the NG-2 mission is pictured at sunset at Launch Complex 36, the evening of Nov. 8, 2025. The rocket will carry NASA\u2019s ESCAPADE mission along with a payload demonstration for Viasat. Image: Adam Bernstein \/ Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n

Starting at stage separation, roughly three minutes after liftoff, teams will attempt to steer the first stage booster, named \u2018Never Tell Me the Odds\u2019, towards a landing in the Atlantic on a barge, \u2018Jacklyn\u2019, which is staged about 375 miles (603.5 km) downrange of the launch pad.<\/p>\n

Blue Origin attempted a similar landing with its first New Glenn booster, \u2018So You\u2019re Telling Me There\u2019s a Chance\u2019, but the rocket failed to properly relight the three gimbaling BE-4 engines for the reentry burn.<\/p>\n

If all goes well, Blue Origin will become the second private company to perform a propulsive landing an orbital class rocket. It plans to reuse its boosters for up to 25 flights initially, assuming successful landings.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Recovery Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) pictured on Blue Origin\u2019s landing vessel, named \u2018Jacklyn,\u2019 after founder Jeff Bezos\u2019 mother. ROV will deploy following a booster landing and provide power, communication and pneumatic links between the booster and Jacklyn, according to Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp. Image: Blue Origin
\nWhat\u2019s onboard?<\/p>\n

Nestled within the New Glenn\u2019s 7 m (23 ft) payload fairings are the twin spacecraft that makeup NASA\u2019s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission as well as a ride share communications technology demonstration from Viasat.<\/p>\n

A little more than 33 minutes after liftoff, the two ESCAPADE satellites, Blue and Gold will deploy from a satellite adaptor called an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (ESPA) ring. Blue separates first and then Gold about 30 seconds later.<\/p>\n

They are being released into a highly elliptical orbit, \u201cjust shy of Earth escape velocity,\u201d Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said in a social media post on Nov. 9. The twins will loiter in a novel so-called \u201ckidney bean\u201d shaped orbit around Lagrange Point 2 about a million miles from Earth for about a year.<\/p>\n

They will then use the Earth for a gravity assist around fall 2026 to begin a roughly 11-month journey to the Red Planet. They will arrive at Mars roughly two days apart when they will each perform a Mars insertion burn to enter into an elliptical orbit that will slowly be lowered into their target science orbit.<\/p>\n

They will be studying Mars\u2019 magnetosphere to learn more about how it\u2019s been influenced by space weather over time.<\/p>\n

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Mating the twins to their Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) ring. The ESPA ring is what lets multiple smaller spacecraft share a launch on the same rocket. pic.twitter.com\/tBlxMkfGG6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) November 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The other payload onboard New Glenn from Viasat will remain fixed to the upper stage and be activated about five minutes after the deployment of the second ESCAPADE spacecraft. This is a demonstration of Viasat\u2019s InRange<\/a> launch telemetry relay solution, which is part of the company\u2019s work under the NASA Communications Services Project.<\/p>\n

\u201cInRange is a specific launch telemetry data relay service designed to support launch providers with responsive, real-time data transmission during launch using Viasat\u2019s L-band network,\u201d a Viasat spokesperson told Spaceflight Now in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a separate solution from Viasat\u2019s high-capacity Ka-band data relay capability (i.e. Real-Time Space Relay), which is also being developed and will separately be demonstrated as part of our NASA CSP program work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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