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The uncrewed launch vehicle, called New Glenn, will mark Blue Origin’s first attempt to send a rocket to orbit, a feat necessary if the company hopes to chip away at SpaceX’s long-held ...
The development of New Glenn has spanned three Blue Origin CEOs and faced numerous delays as Elon Musk's SpaceX grew into an industry juggernaut with its reusable Falcon 9, the world's most active ...
Jeff Bezos’s giant New Glenn rocket has blasted off into space just days after the launch was scrapped at the last minute. The 30-storey tall Blue Origin rocket launched into earth’s orbit at ...
But one of New Shepard's uncrewed missions failed on September 12, 2022, when Blue Origin lost a first-stage booster about a minute into the flight. That resulted in the New Shepard getting ...
Maiden/demonstration flight of New Glenn, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft. First National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn. [3] The 13 January launch was scrubbed due to problems with the rocket. The second stage made it to orbit, but the first stage was lost and failed to land. [4]
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, called off its first attempt to get its new, 30-story New Glenn rocket off the ground in the early hours of Monday morning.
The development and manufacture of the New Glenn is being funded by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, [12] [78] and the Department of the Air Force. Initially funded entirely by Bezos, after 2019 New Glenn will also receive US$500 million in funding under the United States Space Force National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program. [79]
Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA’s Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft a half-century ago.