On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos’ space company sent its first rocket into orbit. At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force…
On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos’ space company sent its first rocket into orbit. At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force…
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket on maiden flight (Picture credit: AP) Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, successfully launched its massive New Glenn rocket on its inaugural flight early Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Named after astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, the 320-foot (98-meter)…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is poised upright at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Preparations began in earnest several hours before launch when liquid hydrogen started flowing into New Glenn’s propellant tanks. At 10 minutes before liftoff time, the launch director will conduct a “go poll,” asking people whether…
Blue Origin will try to launch the massive New Glenn rocket again on Tuesday, a day after calling off the highly-anticipated launch on Monday due to technical issues.Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, faced another hurdle in its quest to launch the rocket on Monday due to ice accumulation in a…
Jan. 12, 2025, 11:30 p.m. ET Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang is reporting on the launch from Cocoa Beach, Fla. When upright, the New Glenn is 320 feet tall. At liftoff, nearly four million pounds of thrust spew from its seven booster engines. But it is not the largest rocket.Credit…Blue Origin In many ways, New Glenn…
Blue Origin set for first launch of giant New Glenn rocket (Picture credit: AP) CAPE CANAVERAL: A quarter century after its founding, Jeff Bezos‘s Blue Origin is finally ready for its maiden orbital voyage with a brand new rocket the company hopes will shake up the commercial space race. Named New Glenn after legendary astronaut…
The foundational building block for Jeff Bezos’ space dreams is finally ready to launch. A New Glenn rocket — built by Blue Origin, the rocket company that Mr. Bezos started nearly a quarter century ago — is sitting on a launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It is as tall as a…
CAPE CANAVERAL: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos‘s company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.Named New Glenn, the rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as soon as Wednesday…