It's a pivotal moment for Blue Origin. New Glenn — named after the first American to reach orbit, John Glenn — is the company's first and only orbital rocket.. It's poised to open up a new ...

The New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to enter the Earth’s orbit. Its first stage is powered by seven of Blue Origin’s powerful BE-4 engines , which run on ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn launch marks a major milestone for the company but it's still catching up to SpaceX. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images 2025-01-17T17:58:49Z ...

SpaceX's test flight comes just hours after Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket had a successful liftoff of its New Glenn rocket. The launch of the 320-foot New Glenn rocket had been beset by delays.

New Glenn first stages are designed for a minimum of 25 flights. The liquid-hydrogen-powered upper stage can carry 45 metric tons of cargo to low-Earth orbit and more than 13 metric tons to a far ...

Blue Origin formally announced the development of New Glenn — which aims to outpower SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and haul spacecraft up to 45 metric tons (99,200 pounds) to orbit — in 2016.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket: What to know about SpaceX rival The rocket is the first that Blue Origin developed for the purpose of sending satellites, equipment and – one ...

Like SpaceX’s Falcon 9, New Glenn is a two-stage booster with a reusable first stage that, mission planners hope, will land vertically after stage separation.

John Glenn's last correspondence before his death was to approve the use of his name for Blue Origin's first orbital-class rocket. Glenn hailed the booster for what it could enable for spaceflight.

The 320-foot-tall, two-stage rocket, named for John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit, lifted off in its first test flight at 2:03 a.m. from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

New Glenn is a big step for Blue Origin, but it's nowhere near as revolutionary to the launch industry as Starship, SpaceX's most ambitious project.. Leroy Chiao, a retired NASA astronaut who ...