{"id":1011186,"date":"2026-06-01T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011186"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:54:13","slug":"blue-origin-faces-months-of-delays-after-rocket-explosion-damages-launch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/01\/blue-origin-faces-months-of-delays-after-rocket-explosion-damages-launch-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin faces months of delays after rocket explosion damages launch pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin faces a months-long setback after the explosion of a rocket damaged its launch pad, company and industry sources said, scrambling schedules for Amazon satellite launches and bolstering SpaceX&#8217;s dominance in the commercial launch market. <\/p>\n<p>The mishap, which occurred during a test fire of the engines for the New Glenn rocket&#8217;s launch next week, comes at a critical time for Jeff Bezos&#8217; business empire. His companies Blue Origin and Amazon are seeking to establish themselves as viable challengers in the heavy-lift and global satellite internet network industries, competing with Elon Musk&#8217;s \u200cSpaceX. <\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s setback could also \u2060complicate NASA&#8217;s \u2060lunar ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin faces a months-long setback after the explosion of a rocket damaged its launch pad, company and industry sources said, scrambling schedules for Amazon satellite launches and bolstering SpaceX&#8217;s dominance in the commercial launch market. The mishap, which occurred during a test fire of the engines for the New Glenn rocket&#8217;s launch next week, comes at a critical time for Jeff Bezos&#8217; business empire. His companies Blue Origin and Amazon are seeking to establish themselves as viable challengers in the heavy-lift and global satellite internet network industries, competing with Elon Musk&#8217;s \u200cSpaceX. Thursday&#8217;s setback could also \u2060complicate NASA&#8217;s \u2060lunar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011212,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011186\/revisions\/1011212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}