The heavy-lift vehicle includes a reusable booster designed for up to 25 launches. Blue Origin will use future New Glenn rockets to deploy satellites for Amazon.com Inc. and other private sector ...

Florida’s sky briefly lit up during the night as one of a handful of big new American-made rockets took flight. It was the first time a new space company achieved orbit on the first launch attempt.

Credit: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / Getty Images News New Glenn is the flagship reusable rocket design for Blue Origin, Amazon-owner Jeff Bezos’ launch-vehicle initiative that looks to rival ...

Going forward, SpaceX is likely to offer its gigantic Starship rocket as a competitor to New Glenn, and here, the advantage ...

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

Blue Origin made two adjustments in quick succession to its schedule for launching its New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has launched into orbit, marking a major milestone for Jeff Bezos’ space company. With its ...

and if Blue Origin can quickly design an even larger vehicle, the company could possibly compete with SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket. “But they need to first get New Glenn operational,” he said.

The rocket has a larger payload capacity than ... it would suggest that the design of New Glenn is sound, and its prospects for future missions are strong. SpaceX is the only company that has ...

The New Glenn rocket dwarfs SpaceX's Falcon 9 ... However, SpaceX's established reliability, innovative design and unmatched launch cadence will be hard to surpass. While Blue Origin is still ...

New Glenn is the flagship reusable rocket design for Blue Origin, Amazon-owner Jeff Bezos’ launch-vehicle initiative that looks to rival SpaceX in the burgeoning commercial space industry.