Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Over the course of just a few hours today, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture made two ...

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 Station in Florida.

The company said weather conditions at sea, where the company hopes to recover part of the rocket after launch, prompted the 24-hour delay. The roughly 320-foot (98-meter) New Glenn is not only ...

Like SpaceX's Falcon 9, New Glenn features a reusable first-stage booster -- designed for up to 25 flights -- and an expendable second stage. But to reuse the rocket, Blue Origin first has to land it.

Blue Origin's launch of New Glenn will be the company's entry into the heavy-lift rocket marketplace. Godspeed, New Glenn! From concept to potential launch, it's been years in the making.

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. Accordingly, Blue Origin is only awaiting clear skies and fair seas for ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Blue Origin is set to launch its New Glenn rocket in a long-delayed, uncrewed test mission that would help pave the way for the space venture founded by Jeff Bezos to ...

launch on Friday of its brand-new New Glenn rocket from Space Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It's the debut flight of what Blue Origin hopes will be a ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday, in a critical milestone that comes some 25 years after the billionaire founded the company with the goal of ...

UPDATE: Following Monday morning’s scrubbed launch attempt of the New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin is now targeting Thursday, January 16, for liftoff. More details below. Blue Origin, the ...

Blue Origin's first New Glenn heavy-lift rocket stands atop its Launch Complex 36 pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ahead of its first test flight. | Credit: Blue Origin Blue ...

launch on Monday of its brand-new New Glenn rocket from Space Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It's the debut flight of what Blue Origin hopes will be a ...