A giant cell tower is going to space this weekend

This weekend's scheduled Blue Origin rocket motorboat is alternatively momentous. Success would awesome an extremity to SpaceX's monopoly connected reusable orbital motorboat vehicles, and acceptable up a three-way contention to marque that "No Service" indicator connected your telephone vanish forever.

On Sunday morning, Jeff Bezos' monolithic New Glenn rocket is scheduled to motorboat with the first-stage booster that launched and landed connected the program's 2nd ngo past November. It's a captious test, due to the fact that cost-effective booster reuse is what's made SpaceX's Falcon 9 truthful dominate.

Amazon desperately needs a reusable rocket of its ain to accelerate its Leo launches. Without one, it's onl …

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