New Shepard alternates between flying passengers and experiments on short space hops. Blue Origin's much bigger orbital rocket, New Glenn, made its debut launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, last ...

Blue Origin, meanwhile, has launched tourists to the edge of space nine times already, using its New Shepard suborbital ...

One of the key questions about Blue Origin is whether it will push toward full reusability with New Glenn. In 2021, Ars first ...

At long last, Blue Origin has an orbital-class rocket that can compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9: the New Glenn. New Glenn is slightly cheaper and much more capable than SpaceX's Falcon 9 ...

The New Glenn’s second stage captured an image of Earth as it achieved orbit during the rocket’s first flight. Credit: Blue Origin The U.S. has entered a new era of heavy-lift launch—one of ...

The rocket has the ability to carry 45 tons of cargo to low Earth orbit, enough to launch 75 Amazon.com Kuipersats per mission. Amazon faces a July 2026 FCC deadline to get 1,600 Kuipersats in orbit.

Blue Origin has just released a video recap (above) of last week’s successful maiden launch of its heavy-lift rocket, the New Glenn. The footage shows some dramatic close-ups of the 98-meter ...

By reaching orbit, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launch has marked a milestone for a commercial space company that has big ambitions. To advance that vision, the company is developing its own ...

Blue Origin is not worried about this, as it knew it was a slim chance of it nailing it on the first try. The launch of the New Glenn also marked another milestone. The mission departed from ...

Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth's orbit for Jeff Bezos' space company as it aims to rival SpaceX in the ...

Blue Origin hopes to launch about a half-dozen more New Glenn flights this year — and eventually, it may haul spacecraft and astronauts into orbit and onto the moon. “There’s room for lots ...