called the Blue Ring Pathfinder, was safely carried to orbit — making the mission a success. But Blue Origin did not reach its bonus goal of guiding part of the New Glenn rocket called the first ...
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Once a company dabbling only in "space tourism," Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin turned into an honest-to-goodness space company last week. In the early morning hours of Jan. 16, at 2:03 a.m. ET, a Blue ...
Blue Origin made two adjustments in quick succession to its schedule for launching its New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time.
For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.
The successful launch of Blue Origin’s massive new rocket is a key step that may allow the company to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The New Glenn makes it safely into orbit for the inaugural test flight of a rocket that could rival those in Elon Musk's SpaceX fleet.
For the postponed flight, it is carrying a prototype of Blue Ring, a vehicle Blue Origin is developing to move payloads to different orbits after they go to space. Why the launch window was in the ...
So for this inaugural flight, Blue Origin opted to instead fly a “demonstrator” that will test technology needed for the company’s proposed Blue Ring spacecraft. Blue Ring is intended to ...
Loud cheers reverberated throughout the mission control room as the massive vehicle ascended to orbit leaving behind blue flames from its seven BE-4 engines. Blue Origin's billionaire founder Jeff ...