Bezos: Next New Glenn Flight Expected by Early November
The second flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket should be later this month or in early November, with a mission of sending a NASA satellite into orbit around Mars, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said Friday at a tech conference in Italy. The company is also working on a hydrogen-powered lunar lander for a moon mission "in a few years," as well as conducting R&D to make solar cells from lunar material, he said. Bezos predicted that solar-powered data centers would be built and operated in space within 10 to 20 years.
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Space travel, AI and robotics are in the midst of a golden age, he added, and the next couple of decades will see millions of people living in space. "That's how fast this will accelerate."