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flag Blue Origin successfully landed the New Glenn rocket’s first stage and launched NASA’s Mars-bound EscaPADE satellites.

flag Blue Origin successfully recovered the first stage of its New Glenn rocket for the first time, landing the 17-story booster on an autonomous barge in the Atlantic after a launch from Cape Canaveral. flag The mission, delayed by weather and geomagnetic conditions, also delivered NASA’s EscaPADE spacecraft—Blue and Gold—to begin a 22-month journey to Mars to study solar wind interactions with the planet’s magnetic field and atmospheric loss. flag Built by Rocket Lab and equipped with instruments from UC Berkeley, the satellites were funded by NASA at about $18 million. flag This marks a key milestone for Blue Origin after a failed debut launch in January, though SpaceX still leads in flight frequency, reliability, and government contracts.

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