Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture counted down to the final hour tonight, but in the end, the company had to postpone the first-ever orbital launch of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket due to ...
“Leave before launch,” Bezos wrote in a post on X. Named New Glenn in honour of iconic astronaut John Glenn, the rocket stands 320 feet (98 meters) tall, roughly the height of a 32-story buildin ...
New Glenn, however, would not be as powerful as SpaceX's next-generation Starship, a fully reusable rocket system in development that Musk sees as crucial to expanding Starlink's footprint in orbit.