For this uncrewed launch, New Glenn will house the Blue Ring Pathfinder, a payload consisting of a communications array, a ...
Space company Blue Origin, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, said Thursday the second stage engine of its massive New Glenn rocket had reached "its final orbit" after its maiden orbital launch.
Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once ...
Like SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9, the New Glenn's first stage was designed to fly itself to a landing on a Blue Origin recovery ship after boosting the upper stage out of the lower atmosphere.
The upper stage used two BE-3U engines and continued its ascent to orbit. The first stage tried to land on Jacklyn, a Blue Origin ship. In September 2015, Blue Origin formally announced plans to ...
After stage separation, the first-stage booster will descend and target landing hundreds of miles at sea atop Blue Origin's drone ship Jacklyn, named for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' mother.
However, the rocket’s first stage exploded on the way back down to Earth as Blue Origin attempted to land that section on a drone ship at sea. The company hopes to launch again this spring ...
Spectators on Saturday watched as Jacklyn, Blue Origin's rocket landing vessel, returned to Port Canaveral just as it left. New Glenn’s first-stage booster, called So You're Telling Me There's a ...
But Blue Origin did not reach its bonus goal of guiding part of the New Glenn rocket called the first-stage booster back to a safe landing on a seafaring platform after takeoff. That maneuver ...