Jeff Bezos’s space company is about to launch New Glenn, a reusable rocket intended to rival SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, for the first time
New Glenn Awarded Critical National Security Space Launch Contract Blue Origin won a contract to serve as a National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 heavy-lift provider for the nation’s most critical missions. Mar 27, 2025 News
But Blue Origin has not publicly announced the specific launch date and time, only that is nearing the first launch of New Glenn after a succesful first stage hot-fire test on Dec. 27 at its pad, Space Launch Complex 36, in Cape Canaveral. The mission will be ambitious, testing ...
New Glenn is a single configuration heavy-lift launch vehicle being developed by Blue Origin, a spaceflight services provider based in the US. It will have the capacity to carry payloads and people to the earth’s orbit and beyond. The New Glenn launch vehicle will feature a fully reusable ...
Blue Origin's first New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (Image credit: Blue Origin) We now have a launch date for the debut mission of Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket. If all goes according to plan, New Glenn will lift o...
Five years after it was supposed to launch, the new, huge cargo rocket's first flight has been called off. Jeff Bezos's New Glenn is seen as a potential challenger to SpaceX's Falcon 9.
Was the New Glenn launch successful? A little less than two hours after takeoff, Blue Origin confirmed that New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit, the main goal of today's inaugural flight. At the same time, the company said the second-stage booster was in its final orbit after two...
Bezos' Blue Origin Calls off Debut New Glenn Launch Over Rocket Issue More Reuters A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready during its attempt to launch, which was later delayed for at least 24 hours, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.,...
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is seen on Launch Complex 36 shortly before the launch attempt was scrubbed at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Jan. 13, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.John Raoux / AP Blue Origin didn't immediately set a new launch date, saying the team needed ...
NASA pulled these spacecraft from the mission back in September as the first launch of the rocket got delayed more and more. Instead, New Glenn lifted its own Blue Ring data collecting system into the void. Blue Ring, Space.com explains, is being developed as part of the Defense I...