A private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos has postponed the planned launch of its new giant rocket. Blue Origin was counting down toward the launch of its first New Glenn heavy ...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s delaying the first-ever launch of its orbital-class New Glenn rocket due to unfavorable weather conditions for landing the first-stage booster.
It’s also on tap to launch variations of Blue Origin’s lunar landing vehicles. The company is a major participant in NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to send humans back to the moon.
Blue Origin launched its towering New Glenn rocket for the first time on Thursday, in a crucial milestone for Jeff Bezos' space company. New Glenn thundered off the launchpad in the early morning ...
It's that booster landing goal that prompted Blue Origin to postpone the New Glenn launch. Company officials are hoping to land the booster on the first try, even if the odds are long for success.
"We did in fact lose the booster," Cornell said. Blue Origin did not explain why or by how much the booster missed its landing. The culmination of a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar development ...
Like SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9, the New Glenn's first stage was designed to fly itself to a landing on a Blue Origin recovery ship after boosting the upper stage out of the lower atmosphere.