Blue Origin marks an important step in the space race, but not without problems

Andreea Neblea

The American space company Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, has achieved an important technological first: the launch of the New Glenn rocket using a reused booster, followed by its successful recovery. The achievement represents a major step towards reducing costs and increasing the frequency of launches, in a context of increasingly intense competition with SpaceX. However, the technical success was overshadowed by a problem that arose during the mission: the satellite carried was not