Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space company is holding off on the debut launch of a new rocket

Blue Origin delayed the debut launch of its giant new rocket on Monday due to a technical glitch.

The 98-meter New Glenn rocket was scheduled to blast off with a prototype satellite from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida before dawn. But launch controllers had to deal with an unspecified rocket problem in the final minutes of the countdown, and time ran out. After the countdown clock was stopped, they immediately began to drain all the fuel from the rocket.

Blue Origin did not immediately set a new start date, saying the team needed more time to fix the problem.

The test flight had already been delayed due to rough seas, which threatened the company’s plan to land the first stage booster on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

New Glenn was named after John Glenn, the first American to enter Earth orbit. It is five times taller than Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which carried paying customers from Texas to the edge of space.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago. He took part in Monday’s countdown from Mission Control, located outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, a rocket factory about 80 kilometers east of Orlando, Florida.

Regardless, Bezos said Sunday evening that “we’re going to pick ourselves up and move on.”