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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket on maiden flight

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches its New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight.

The booster did it's job propelling the upper stage out of the lower atmosphere, but during its descent to a planned landing on the recovery ship, telemetry froze.

"We may very well have lost the booster," a company commentator says.

The launch came a week later than originally planned because of rough weather in the booster landing zone and a technical problem.

SpaceX is in the process of testing a gargantuan, fully reusable rocket known as the Super Heavy-Starship .

It is the most powerful rocket ever built, and once operational is expected to play a major role in launching payloads to low- Earth orbit, the moon and beyond.

Amazon plans to launch more than 3,232 broadband relay stations known as Project Kuiper to provide space-based internet services.

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