Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket
For the first time since its founding, nearly a quarter of a century ago, Blue Origin had reached orbit. The long-awaited ...
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SpaceX's Starship spacecraft destroyed in mega rocket launch
The gargantuan rocket blasted off from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight test facility on the Gulf Coast at 5:37 p.m. Eastern Time, firing up 33 methane-burning Raptor ... the climb ...
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin readies powerful New Glenn rocket for maiden flight
powered by seven methane-burning BE-4 engines generating a combined 3.8 million pounds of thrust, was designed to be reusable. After boosting the rocket's upper stage out of the lower atmosphere ...
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Blue Origin's first New Glenn rocket reaches orbit, misses booster landing
The rocket is powered by liquid oxygen and liquid methane and is designed to be partially reusable, as Blue Origin aims to launch, land and re-launch each booster as many as 25 times. In terms of ...
Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn Rocket Lifts Off on First Flight
Blue Origin successfully launched the rocket after an attempt earlier in the week was scrubbed. The flight is a crucial test of the company’s ability to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
New Glenn rocket is at the launch pad waiting for calm seas to land
COCOA BEACH, Fla. —As it so often does in the final days before the debut of a new rocket, it all comes down to weather.