Blue Origin is key to Amazon's ability to compete with SpaceX Starlink. Jeff Bezos has finally done it. He's finally reached ...

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

After years of development, Blue Origin’s semi-reusable heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, successfully launched on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 2:03 AM EST (07:03 UTC) after moving from the ...

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

John Glenn's last correspondence before his death was to approve the use of his name for Blue Origin's first orbital-class rocket. Nine years later, the "New Glenn" is ready for its inaugural launch.

Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire ... dubbed New Glenn in honor of legendary American astronaut John Glenn, had been scrubbed early Monday morning after repeated halts during ...

But Blue Origin is hoping to break that stranglehold with its heavy ... The rocket—named after the first American to orbit Earth, NASA astronaut John Glenn—is 320 feet tall and designed to carry 45 ...

which is named for John Glenn, will be the first Blue Origin rocket to send a payload to orbit. The payload for this upcoming inaugural launch: a pathfinder, or simulator, of the company's Blue ...

(Update: Blue Origin has moved the first flight of New Glenn to no earlier than 1 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 13. SpaceX has confirmed Flight 7 will be no earlier than Monday, Jan. 13 from Boca Chica, Texas.