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Saudi Arabia’s Taif Rose Festival to Start Sunday

The mayor of Taif, Eng. Abdullah bin Khamis Al-Zaidi, has overseen preparations for the 2024 Taif Rose Festival. SPA
The mayor of Taif, Eng. Abdullah bin Khamis Al-Zaidi, has overseen preparations for the 2024 Taif Rose Festival. SPA
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Saudi Arabia’s Taif Rose Festival to Start Sunday

The mayor of Taif, Eng. Abdullah bin Khamis Al-Zaidi, has overseen preparations for the 2024 Taif Rose Festival. SPA
The mayor of Taif, Eng. Abdullah bin Khamis Al-Zaidi, has overseen preparations for the 2024 Taif Rose Festival. SPA

The mayor of Taif, Eng. Abdullah bin Khamis Al-Zaidi, has overseen preparations for the 2024 Taif Rose Festival, which will begin on Sunday at the Al Raddaf Park.

Al-Zaidi highlighted the progress achieved for the upcoming festival, which is among the major events and festivities in the Kingdom.

He was also briefed by specialists on ongoing work at the festival and the accompanying activities such as new designs for creating a carpet of roses and flowers, seedlings and bouquets of flowers and roses that the municipality will distribute to visitors, and efforts to establish an agricultural reserve, an arboretum, and a home garden model.

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Bezos' Blue Origin calls off New Glenn Launch Again, Eyes Thursday

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 11, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 11, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
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Bezos' Blue Origin calls off New Glenn Launch Again, Eyes Thursday

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 11, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 11, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin moved the launch of its New Glenn rocket from Tuesday to Thursday, Jan. 16, further pushing back its inaugural attempt to reach orbit and compete with SpaceX in the satellite launch market.

The company called off its first scheduled launch on Monday after a technical issue was encountered in the lead-up to its takeoff.

The three-hour launch window opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) on Thursday, Blue Origin said in a post on X, according to Reuters.

The development of New Glenn has spanned three Blue Origin CEOs and faced numerous delays as Elon Musk's SpaceX grew into an industry juggernaut with its reusable Falcon 9, the world's most active rocket.

New Glenn is more than twice as powerful as a Falcon 9 rocket and has dozens of customer launch contracts collectively worth billions of dollars lined up.

The rocket would seek to land New Glenn's first stage booster on a sea-fairing barge in the Atlantic Ocean 10 minutes after liftoff, while the rocket's second stage continues toward orbit.

"The thing we're most nervous about is the booster landing," Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000, told Reuters in a pre-launch interview on Sunday. "Clearly on a first flight you could have an anomaly at any mission phase, so anything could happen.