Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket to orbit
New Glenn, a multistage rocket named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, is the first Blue Origin rocket to reach orbit. That puts the company, founded by former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in good position to join Elon Musk’s busy SpaceX brand as a major player in the cellular satellite industry and beyond.
For Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin, and for Bezos, the mere fact that New Glenn made it to orbit was at least as significant as the Blue Ring Pathfinder test. Although the company has launched ...
The Space Coast could welcome a big player to the launch landscape early Sunday with the debut of Kent-based Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, a two-day delay from original plans to launch ...
Bezos founded Amazon six years before he created Blue Origin. Headquartered in the Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington, Blue Origin has over 10,000 employees there and in half a dozen other ...
Hundreds of employees at the company's headquarters in Kent, Washington, and at its rocket factory in Cape Canaveral, Florida, erupted with applause as Blue Origin VP Ariane Cornell announced ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Kent-based Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.
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