Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin launched its New Glenn mega-rocket for the first time. The milestone is a leap for reusable rocketry.

Blue Origin scored a major win with its New Glenn rocket launch, but SpaceX still leads the space industry with a Falcon fleet and upcoming Starship.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket visible as a streak of light from bottom right to top left. Don Pettit / NASA Blue Origin launched its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for the first time last week ...

And there was this month's New Glenn launch. That's it. It feels almost cruel to compare Blue Origin to SpaceX, which would be the "hare" in this fable. But it's necessary to do so. Founded in ...

The reason for that is the size of the fairings the rocket designs use. New Glenn’s payload fairings can accommodate payloads up to seven meters in diameter. That’s a substantially greater ...

At long last, Blue Origin has an orbital-class rocket that can compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9: the New Glenn. New Glenn is slightly cheaper and much more capable than SpaceX's Falcon 9 ...

Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang first reported on Blue Origin’s plans for space in 2010. transcript New Glenn, named after the astronaut John Glenn, successfully lifted off early Thursday morning ...

For comparison, SpaceX began developing its first orbital rocket, the Falcon 9 v1.0, in 2005. It made its debut launch five years later, in 2010. That said, New Glenn is more than three times more ...

In the early morning hours of Jan. 16, at 2:03 a.m. ET, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket ship lit up the skies over Cape Canaveral, successfully reaching space on its first try, and delivering a ...