
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos announced plans to resume launches of the New Glenn heavy rocket in December after the consequences of the May accident are resolved.
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In May, a New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test due to a valve problem.
Launches of the New Glenn heavy rocket are planned to resume in December, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said in an interview with Fox News.
“This December we are going to launch this device again, although no one believed that this was possible after the emergency situation that we encountered. But the team got together and did an incredible job of restoring the launch site,” the businessman said.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said in August that New Glenn's rocket explosion during a static fire test in May was caused by problems with a liquid oxygen valve on one of the seven BE-4 first-stage engines.
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On the night of October 9, Russians will be able to watch the Draconid meteor shower, known as the most unpredictable meteor shower. Its intensity varies from several tens to 700 meteors per hour, and the flow speed is 20 km/s, which makes it more visible due to the reddish tint of the meteors.

An M6.7 class flare was recorded on the Sun - the strongest since the end of summer, occurring close to the center of the solar disk and potentially affecting the Earth, reports the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying Crew-12, including Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev, successfully completed its mission and splashed down off the coast of California after an eight-month stay on the ISS.

NASA and SpaceX plan to launch the Cargo Dragon cargo ship to the ISS no earlier than October 13. The ship will deliver 2.8 tons of cargo to the station, including scientific equipment and necessary materials to support the life of the station.

NASA announced that the launch of the US Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of the 35th commercial cargo resupply mission will occur no earlier than October 13 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying over 2.8 tons of supplies including materials for microgravity heart tissue research and set to return the malfunctioning Canadarm2 wrist joint for analysis.

The best time to watch the Draconid meteor shower is the evening of October 8th and the night of October 9th. Expected activity is from 5 to 15 meteors per hour, with possible bursts of up to 400 meteors per hour. The peak of activity will occur at 4:00 Moscow time on October 9.