Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday morning on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth's orbit for Jeff Bezos's space company as it aims ...

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WASHINGTON — Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket achieved orbit on its long-awaited first launch Jan. 16, although the company failed in its attempt to recover the first stage. New Glenn lifted off ...

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Then, the upper stage's two BE-3U engines appeared to perform flawlessly, pushing the Blue Ring pathfinder payload toward orbit. These engines burned very nearly for 10 minutes before shutting ...

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn heavy lift rocket into orbit for the first time early on Thursday, notching a key milestone for the company that could ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first attempt by Jeff Bezos’s private space company, Blue Origin, to launch a rocket into orbit will ...

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A Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites in July reached orbit, but the upper stage malfunctioned during a relight of the engine to circularize the orbit, resulting in the satellites deployed in ...

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