Blue Horizons Aerospace to Stand Down on Launch of Insight Research Mission 2; Forgoes November Launch

NEW YORK, New York, November 27, 2024 – Blue Horizons Aerospace, LLC (BHA) is foregoing all November 2024 launch opportunities of Insight Research Mission 2 (IRM-2) due to anticipated winter conditions during the three-day launch attempt. While future launch opportunities are under review, the next possible earliest launch date is spring 2025.

A winter weather system is expected to move through the West North Central region this week, moving northwest over BHA’s Launch Site 1. The decision to stand down was based on a substantial probability existing that one or more launch weather commit criteria—the criteria which must be met for a safe launch—would be violated on all three launch windows within the launch attempt due to below freezing temperatures, low cumulonimbus and nimbostratus clouds, and moderate precipitation and snows.

The now scrubbed launch period, would have opened on November 29, and extended through December 1, with a single discrete launch opportunity each day.

ABOUT BHA

Founded in 2022 and headquartered in New York, New York, Blue Horizons Aerospace, LLC (BHA) is an aerospace company developing, innovating, and advancing today's technologies and systems to deliver tomorrow's capabilities. Currently, a leading innovator in amateur rocketry, BHA is dedicated to offering suborbital launch services to commercial customers by 2030. Our future launch services will enable commercial customers to test and validate supersonic vehicles and various advanced payloads. With a dedicated team across the United States, we are united by a shared passion for exploration and technological advancement.