Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket launch was called off on Monday, 13 January, after “a few anomalies” during the mission countdown. The inaugural attempt to reach orbit and compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the satellite launch market was postponed by at least a day.

Blue Origin called off the debut launch of its massive new rocket early Monday because of technical trouble. The 98-metre New Glenn rocket was supposed to blast off before dawn with a prototype satellite from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.