If successful, the launch of its New Glenn rocket will put Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin in greater competition with fellow billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos,
Blue Origin and SpaceX both launched rockets on 16 January, but while Jeff Bezos's company saw a launch success with New Glenn, Elon Musk's Starship exploded. What does this mean for the future of the space industry?
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin on Monday called off its inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket after a number of last-minute issues – hurting the space firm in its race to compete with Elon Musk’s dominant SpaceX. The 320-foot rocket was scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 1 a.m. ET before the launch was aborted.
Blue Origin also attempted to land the rocket's booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, but the booster was lost during reentry through the atmosphere. The launch is a defining moment for Blue ...
The company also attempted to land the first-stage booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, but it was unsuccessful. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket for its first test flight early Thursday, after several days ...
About 8 minutes later, the rocket’s large, first-stage booster failed to stick its landing on a barge in the Atlantic—not ... the inaugural flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket—and ...
The company, started by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, reset its countdown clock repeatedly over a period of just over two hours before eventually postponing the test flight to another day.
Reports revealed that New Glenn's two engines, optimized to function in the vacuum of space, should fire up and propel the vehicle to speeds necessary to enter orbit — typically around 17,500 miles per hour, or nearly 23 times the speed of sound.
The rocket’s first booster was meant to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean shortly ... This time, Blue Origin explained its engineers would need “to troubleshoot a vehicle ...
It will then likely aim to burn up over a remote area of the ocean. During today's launch ... mark landing on its platform in the Atlantic. On the Blue Origin livestream - which you can watch ...
Blue Origin will attempt to land the first-stage booster on a drone ship named Jacklyn, in honor of Bezos's mother, stationed about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. Though
No Central Florida sonic booms should occur — instead, the rocket's first-stage booster will target landing aboard a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Blue Origin:'We did it on our first ...