Blue Origin is preparing a second launch of its New Glenn rocket, this time with twin Mars orbiters on board. The company will attempt to recover the rocket’s first stage.
That’s what it took to save NASA’s ESCAPADE mission from a lengthy delay, and possible cancellation, after its rocket wasn’t ready to send it toward Mars during its appointed launch window last year.
TESS launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2018 to study exoplanets that transit their star from our perspective, meaning they ...