After numerous delays and a last-minute scrub on Monday, Blue Origin finally launched the inaugural flight of its massive New Glenn rocket.
Privately owned Blue Origin has achieved its goal—a decade in the making—of becoming an orbital launch player, even as it failed to recover its first-stage booster in the ambitious inaugural flight of its New Glenn rocket on its NG-1 mission.
Jeff Bezos' humongous reusable rocket, New Glenn, made its way to orbit in its first test flight earlier today.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is the company's first orbital-class launch vehicle. It stands a towering 320 feet tall (98 meters). It features a reusable first stage designed to return to Earth after launch and land on a barge named Jacklyn, after Jeff Bezos ' mother, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Blue Origin will launch its first-ever New Glenn rocket on Jan. 10. Here's what time it will fly and where to look to watch it.
After years of development, Blue Origin is finally ready to conduct the maiden test flight of the company’s New Glenn rocket. The flight is currently scheduled for a three-hour launch window on Friday, Jan. 10, starting at 1 am EST. The company plans to begin live streaming the event on BlueOrigin.com about an hour before the launch.
Blue Origin on Monday revealed plans for the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket from Florida’s Space Coast.
After years of development, Blue Origin’s semi-reusable heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, successfully
Once in orbit, the upper stage released the Blue Ring Pathfinder: a small prototype spacecraft designed to host and transport satellites between orbits, refuel visiting spacecraft, and perform computing and communications from space. According to Blue Origin, Blue Ring is “receiving data and performing well.”
New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective. The second stage is in its final orbit following
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