"The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part ...

The New Shepard launch is scheduled for Tuesday, January 28 at 11 am EST / 10 am local time at Blue Origin’s Test Site One, ...

Credit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight will be a long-awaited demonstration of New Shepard’s ability to generate lunar gravity rather than microgravity.

One of the key questions about Blue Origin is whether it will push toward full reusability with New Glenn. In 2021, Ars first ...

After abruptly calling off its first launch attempt in the early hours of Monday morning, Blue Origin notched a historic ...

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

New Shepard, which launched in 2015, is named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space. New Shepard is not powerful enough to reach orbit. Instead, it flies a suborbital trajectory.

Even without recovering New Glenn’s reusable booster, Blue Origin has joined the ranks of commercial companies with rockets able to launch into orbit.

The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.

New Shepard, which launched in 2015, is named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space. New Shepard is not powerful enough to reach orbit. Instead, it flies a suborbital trajectory.

Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, made its maiden voyage into orbital space Thursday with its brand-new rocket, New Glenn.

It follows in the steps of New Shepard, Blue Origin's first rocket which was named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Standing 320 feet (98 meters) tall -- roughly equivalent to a 32 ...