The New Glenn is named after John Glenn ... allowing the company to retrieve it. The rocket’s upper stage is disposable and carries Blue Origin’s payload. It’s capable of sending 13 metric ...

The launch will also test the rocket’s reusable first stage, which will attempt to land... Blue Origin has received FAA approval to conduct orbital launches with its New Glenn rocket from Florida.

Named after John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit, New Glenn is designed to be that rocket. At that point, the second stage’s three engines light up, taking the rocket the rest of the ...

The first-stage booster missed its landing on a barge ... They will still fly on a New Glenn rocket, but not until spring at the earliest. The two small spacecraft, named Escapade, are meant ...

The 320-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) New Glenn lifted off for the first time on Jan. 16 from Florida's Space Coast. The test flight was a success; the rocket's upper stage successfully carried its ...

Blue Origin is reportedly planning on letting go of approximately 10% of its workforce—about 1,000 employees—nearly a month after the inaugural liftoff of New Glenn. The company is hoping to ...

But the attempt after the vehicle took flight to land New Glenn’s first-stage booster, the rocket’s bottommost portion that gives the initial burst of power at liftoff, was unsuccessful.

The first-stage booster missed its landing on a barge ... They will still fly on a New Glenn rocket, but not until spring at the earliest. The two small spacecraft, named Escapade, are meant ...