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Blue Origin targets mid-October for New Glenn’s inaugural flight and launch of NASA’s Escapade Mars mission

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy-lift rocket and its Mars -bound NASA payload now have a tentative launch date.

The company on Friday that the inaugural flight will take place no earlier than October 13 , carrying to help NASA study the effects of solar wind on Mars ’ atmosphere.

The mission will lift off from Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida .