Upcoming SpaceX, Blue ... liquid oxygen loading begins. 16 minutes: Second-stage liquid oxygen loading begins. 7 minutes: Falcon 9 begins engine chill prior to launch. 1 minute: Command flight ...

Feb. 4 (UPI) --Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight hiccup on its return when one of its parachutes did not ...

A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch from West Texas. The New Shepard vehicle was developed by billionaire Jeff ...

Blue Origin is now targeting Tuesday (Feb. 4) for its first-ever moon-gravity mission. The company first tried to launch the NS-29 mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Jan. 28 ...

The rocket has a reusable first stage that contains Blue Origin's BE-4 engines fueled by a mixture of liquid natural gas and liquid oxygen. The New Glenn's upper stage is powered by Blue Origin's ...

Standing 30 stories tall, the reusable rocket’s first stage, powered by liquid oxygen and methane, blasted off from Blue Origin’s launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at around 2 a ...

The New Glenn rocket, powered by a combination of liquid oxygen and methane, aims to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX by offering reliable and cost-effective satellite launches. Blue Origin's ...

Around 30 minutes later, Blue Origin begins loading liquid oxygen into the top and bottom sections of the rocket. Liquid oxygen, or LOX, is an oxidizer that enables the fuel to combust ...

which run on liquified natural gas and liquid oxygen. Shortly after launch, the first stage is supposed to detach and autonomously land upright on a sea-based platform, where Blue Origin can then ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has successfully launched a rocket ... tall and powered by its BE-4 engines—each using liquid oxygen and liquefied natural gas engine—New Glenn is taller than Falcon ...

For the first time since its founding, nearly a quarter of a century ago, Blue Origin had reached orbit. The long-awaited debut launch of the New Glenn rocket, a super-heavy lift vehicle developed ...