Blue Origin's first New Glenn rocket launches toward space on the NG-1 mission from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on Jan. 16, 2025.(Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin launches its first New Glenn rocket from Pad 36 of the Cape Canaveral Space Force ...
The Starlink launches from Florida usually carry 20, 21, 22 or 23 satellites. I notice that the two launches this week (Groups 6-68 and 6-69) both carried 24 -- which (...checks spreadsheet...) has happened once before, with Group 6-39 in February. I wonder wh...
Infrastructure to support Starship launches from NASA'sKennedy Space Center(KSC) in Florida have been underway for the past couple years, and SpaceX plans to utilize their facilities at KSC once Starship is flying regularly. A Starship launch tower has been built at Launch Complex-39A (LC-39...
Standing 30 stories tall, New Glenn has been acore focusfor Blue Origin since the beginning of its decade-long development, representing a multibillion-dollar effort to sate demand for satellite constellation launches and snatch market share from SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9. ...
FILE VIDEO: ULA's Vulcan rocket launches for the first time carrying the Peregrine Moon lander to space. The liftoff happened from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Jan. 8. (video: ULA) CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. – United Launch Alliance is preparing to bid farewell to the "most...
More Rocket Launches Could Damage the Ozone Layer There are few things in this world that brings feelings of awe and wonder more than a rocket launch. Watching a literal tower of steel slowly lift off from the ground with unspeakable power reminds us of what humanity can achieve despite our ...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket SUPERSIZE ROCKET The stainless steel Starship has 33 main engines and 16.7 million pounds of thrust. All but two of the methane-fueled, first-stage engines ignited during alaunch pad test in January— good enough to reach orbit, Musk...
If successful, this series of missions would smash all ofSpaceX’s past launch cadence records– six launches in little more than a single month, two reused flights in four days, three launches in one week, and two East coast launches in three days, not to mentionthe debut of Falcon 9 ...
Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Thursday. The approximately 98-meter-tall rocket carried equipment for telecommunication tests into space. The New Glenn rocket is designed for cost reduction through the recovery and reuse of its first-...
After more than two years of training for the landmark mission, four citizens including billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman were launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on…