Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is gearing up to launch its New Glenn rocket this week, marking the start of what many space industry analysts and insiders expect will prove a bumper year as Donald Trump ...
At its peak, the capsule reached 65 miles (104 kilometres), just above the official threshold for space and landed vertically seven minutes after liftoff. Blue Origin are working on New Glenn ...
With no humans on board, the launch escape system activated, allowing the capsule ... larger than the space shuttle. Credit: Jurgenspacerocket/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Blue Origin’s success ...
Blue Origin already has practice in booster recovery with its smaller suborbital rocket New Shepard, that fly out of Texas, but the 322-foot-tall New Glenn is a much bigger brother powered by ...
The next Space Coast launch, though, could fall to Blue Origin’s New Glenn on the NG-1 mission, which is now targeting launch early Sunday from Canaveral’s Launch Complex 36 during a launch ...