If New Glenn can continue to demonstrate its capabilities and (more crucially) its reliability, it has the potential to take some business that SpaceX would otherwise struggle to accommodate.
Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida following a hold-up on Monday.
Blue Origin successfully launched the rocket after an attempt earlier in the week was scrubbed. The flight is a crucial test of the company’s ability to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Years in the making with heavy funding by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ... Alan Shepard. New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into ...
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New Glenn, named after astronaut John Glenn, successfully lifted off ... who became one of the richest people in the world as the founder of Amazon, is perhaps the best example demonstrating ...
The New Glenn rocket, developed by the space technology company owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ... Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn is a ...
New Glenn is named after the first American to orbit Earth, John Glenn. It is five times taller ... Origin – the space travel company owned by Amazon billionaire Bezos – has sent passengers ...
The mission, the culmination of a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar development journey, will include an attempt to land New Glenn’s first stage booster on a sea-fairing barge in the Atlantic Ocean 10 minutes after lift-off, while the rocket’s second stage continues toward orbit.
The launch marked a major milestone for Blue Origin, which was started by Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos in 2000. While the company's New Shepard spacecraft has made multiple launches, sending space tourists to the edge of space, New Glenn takes Blue Origin into the new territory of orbital space missions.
Blue Origin successfully launched its two-stage heavy-lift New Glenn rocket on its unmanned maiden voyage into space early Thursday, achieving the mission's primary goal of reaching orbit.