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Blue Origin announces rocket upgrades aimed at lower costs, more performance

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What happened

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—Blue Origin announced two significant upgrades to its New Glenn rocket on Thursday, reducing the cost of manufacturing the vehicle and expanding its capacity for payload (what a rocket is carrying) delivery to geostationary orbit and the Moon. "This is going to be a game-changer." Blue Origin is an aerospace company based in Kent, founded in 2000, and its products and services include New Glenn.

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  • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—Blue Origin — announced: two significant upgrades to its New Glenn rocket on Thursday, reducing the cost of manufacturing the vehicle and expanding its capacity for payload delivery to geostationary orbit and the Moon

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