The successful flight to orbit of the Amazon founder’s powerful rocket suggests it could grow into a credible competitor with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Blue Origin already lands their single-stage suborbital New Shepard rocket after flights from Texas. For this inaugural flight, Blue Origin has revealed the payload will be a test of the ...
In October 2024, Blue Origin completed a launch and landing of an uncrewed flight test for its next New Shepard spacecraft, which will one day take humans on suborbital trips high above Earth.
It's five times taller than Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas. Amazon's Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago. He took part ...
The successful launch kicks off a new era for Blue Origin, which until now has been stuck with a rocket (called New Shepard) that is not designed to go into orbit, which limits its ...
For Blue Origin, there’s a lot riding on New Glenn’s mission, known as NG-1. Although the company has launched smaller New Shepard rockets on suborbital spaceflights for a decade ...
The short hops from Texas use smaller rockets named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard. New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 ...