Blue Origin is targeting late spring for the second flight of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.Dave Limp, chief executive of Blue Origin, revealed the plan at the 27th Annual Commercial Space Conference in Washington, D.C. this week, adding that his team is keen to use the flight to achieve the first successful landing of the rockets first-stage booster.Recommended VideosIn the maiden launch of the New Glenn rocket last month, the spaceflight company founded by Amazons Jeff Bezos had hoped to land the booster on a floating platform off the coast of Florida, similar to how SpaceX recovers the main stage of its Falcon 9 booster. But an anomaly occurred during the New Glenns descent, forcing Blue Origin to abandon the landing attempt.Please enable Javascript to view this contentWe had most of the right conditions in the engine but we werent able to get everything right to the engine from the tanks, Limp said in comments reported by SpaceNews. We think we understand what the issues are. He said the anomaly was down to a combination of a couple things, adding, This was our first attempt at it. I dont want to go into too much detail because were still going through the anomaly investigation.Regarding the payload for the upcoming New Glenn launch, Limp could only say that the company currently has a couple of different options for it, adding, We sort of treat the first three flights as development flights. If we can get commercial payloads on them, we will do so. If it came to it and we just had to fly a mass simulator, well fly a mass simulator.The 98-meter-tall vehicle is Blue Origins first orbital rocket. Its notable for its large payload fairing, which features twice the volume of the standard five-meter class commercial launch systems. The rockets first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines, and uses methane and liquid oxygen to produce around 3.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff considerably more than SpaceXs Falcon 9, which creates around 1.7 million pounds of thrust, though less than SpaceXs Falcon Heavy, which produces around 5.1 million pounds of thrust.Blue Origin will livestream the second New Glenn mission. Well have all the details on how to watch just as soon as they become available.Editors Recommendations