Irene Klotz
November 13, 2025

Blue Origin

Credit: Blue Origin

CAPE CANAVERAL—Ten months after its inaugural flight, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral SFS Nov. 13 to send a pair of NASA science satellites on a roundabout journey to Mars. With the New Glenn-2 (NG-2) mission, Blue Origin also became the second company after SpaceX to…

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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