US-based spaceflight services provider Blue Origin has secured a deal to launch its New Glenn rocket carrying a satellite for Eutelsat Communications.

Representing the first deal for New Glenn rocket, the proposed mission will see the lauch of one of Eutelsat’s geostationary satellites between 2021 and 2022.

Eutelsat Communications CEO Rodolphe Belmer said: "Blue Origin has been forthcoming with Eutelsat on its strategy and convinced us they have the right mindset to compete in the launch service industry.

"Their solid engineering approach, and their policy to develop technologies that will form the base of a broad generation of launchers, corresponds to what we expect from our industrial partners.

"We are pursuing our longstanding strategy of innovation that drives down the cost of access to space and drives up performance."

"In including New Glenn in our manifest, we are pursuing our longstanding strategy of innovation that drives down the cost of access to space and drives up performance. This can only be good news for the profitability and sustainability of our industry."

The New Glenn rocket, to be used for the planned launch, will be manufactured and launched at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, US, reported New York Times.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said: “Eutelsat has launched satellites on many new vehicles and shares both our methodical approach to engineering and our passion for driving down the cost of access to space."

In a newly released video, Bezos has also revealed the capability of the New Glenn rocket’s ability to carry 50t of payload and to land on a moving sea barge.

Image: Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. Photo: courtesy of Blue Origin.