Blue Origin postpones first launch of its massive new rocket

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Blue Origin called off the debut launch of its massive new rocket early Monday because of technical trouble.

The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was supposed to blast off before dawn with a prototype satellite from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. But launch controllers had to deal with an unspecified "subsystem" rocket issue in the final minutes of the countdown and ran out of time, Blue Origin said in a post on X. Once the countdown clock was halted, they immediately began draining all the fuel from the rocket.

Blue Origin didn't immediately set a new launch date, saying the team needed more time to resolve the problem.