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's New Glenn rocket was slated to deliver a satellite prototype to Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron forecasts 90% odds of favorable launch weather during Thursday's three-hour window, which will open at 1 a.m.

The company also attempted to land the first-stage booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, but it was unsuccessful. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket for its first test flight early Thursday, after several days ...

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 ...

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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.

New Glenn, a multistage rocket named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, is the first Blue Origin rocket to reach orbit. That puts the company, founded by former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in good position to join Elon Musk’s busy SpaceX brand as a major player in the cellular satellite industry and beyond.

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

The rocket, whose inaugural mission had been delayed by several years, blasted off at 2:03 am (0703 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the US state of Florida, a live webcast showed.

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 ...