Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, announced in 2016, is set to debut this week, no earlier than January 8 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, according to the launch site SpaceFlight Now.

The New Glenn stands 320 feet tall and is powered by seven engines capable of generating 3.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. The rocket’s massive size will make it highly visible along ...

made its maiden voyage into orbital space Thursday with its brand-new rocket, New Glenn. Here are five key things to know about the heavy-lift vehicle aiming to challenge SpaceX's dominance in the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Despite numerous delays, Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket in its maiden flight early Thursday morning, although its first-stage booster failed in its ...

The debut flight of New Glenn, the company’s first rocket powerful enough to launch satellites to space, took off after 2 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ...

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.

Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin on Thursday launched its new mega-rocket, called New Glenn, into orbit for the first time. The rocket lifted off at 2:03 a.m. ET on January 16 from ...

For comparison, SpaceX began developing its first orbital rocket, the Falcon 9 v1.0, in 2005. It made its debut launch five years later, in 2010. That said, New Glenn is more than three times more ...

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit Thursday morning. With it, the New Glenn toted its Blue Ring Pathfinder, a prototype to help satellites maneuver in space ...

At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

with multiple day delays due to technical issues with the rocket and weather. New Glenn is the size of a 30-story skyscraper at 322 feet tall, nearly as tall as the Saturn V rockets that carried ...