If successful, the launch of its New Glenn rocket will put Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin in greater competition with fellow billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos,

Blue Origin also attempted to land the rocket's booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, but the booster was lost during reentry through the atmosphere. The launch is a defining moment for Blue ...

About 8 minutes later, the rocket’s large, first-stage booster failed to stick its landing on a barge in the Atlantic—not ... the inaugural flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket—and ...

The liftoff has now been rescheduled for no earlier than tomorrow (January 13), at 1:00am EST (11:30am IST) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The bad weather in the Atlantic Ocean poses a major risk to the rocket booster landing operation.

The company, started by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, reset its countdown clock repeatedly over a period of just over two hours before eventually postponing the test flight to another day.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket boasts a two-stage design. The first stage, known as GS1, is propelled by a cluster of seven BE-4 engines. These engines are touted as the most powerful LNG-fueled engines ever developed.

Reports revealed that New Glenn's two engines, optimized to function in the vacuum of space, should fire up and propel the vehicle to speeds necessary to enter orbit — typically around 17,500 miles per hour, or nearly 23 times the speed of sound.

Blue Origin confirmed a clean separation of the two-stage rocket, sending its booster back to Earth, where it failed to land on the autonomous droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. Shortly before the ...

The rocket’s first booster was meant to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean shortly ... This time, Blue Origin explained its engineers would need “to troubleshoot a vehicle ...

Live updates from Thursday morning's Blue Origin New Glenn first-ever mission that launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket for its first test flight early Thursday, after several days of delays.

Shrugging off bad weather, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its powerful New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight early Thursday, lighting up a cloudy overnight sky as it climbed away from Cape Canaveral in a high-stakes bid to compete with Elon Musk's industry-leading SpaceX.