Blue Origin scored a major win with its New Glenn rocket launch, but SpaceX still leads the space industry with a Falcon fleet and upcoming Starship.
If we're being frank, which is how we roll in the Rocket Report, some of Orbex's recent activity does not inspire confidence. The company, for example, suspended plans to develop a spaceport at Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands to focus resources on developing the Prime microlauncher.
Once a company dabbling only in "space tourism," Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin turned into an honest-to-goodness space company last week. In the early morning hours of Jan. 16, at 2:03 a.m. ET, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket ship lit up the skies over Cape Canaveral,
Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.
The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to investigate what went wrong on their respective
One of the key questions about Blue Origin is whether it will push toward full reusability with New Glenn. In 2021, Ars first reported on an effort codenamed "Project Jarvis" to develop a stainless steel upper stage that could be reused. The company even built a test tank, although the effort was eventually shelved.
While Jeff Bezos has spent $14 billion to achieve his first space launch, his billionaire rival has built a thriving business, mostly with other people’s money.
Blue Origin is key to Amazon's ability to compete with SpaceX Starlink. Jeff Bezos has finally done it. He's finally reached space with an honest-to-goodness orbital-class rocket. Ten years ago, Bezos ignited a feud with SpaceX founder Elon Musk when his Blue Origin rocket company launched a suborbital New Shepard rocket to the edge of space and then landed it back on Earth.
At long last, Blue Origin has an orbital-class rocket that can compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9: the New Glenn. New Glenn is slightly cheaper and much more capable than SpaceX's Falcon 9 ...
Meanwhile, SpaceX forges a path of full reusability with its revolutionary Starship rocket. Jeff Bezos's spaceflight company, Blue Origin, made a huge leap forward on Thursday when it successfully ...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is plotting to challenge Elon Musk's Starlink in the UK broadband market, with plans to launch an alternative — dubbed Project Kuiper — as early as this year. Starlink uses satellites orbiting the Earth to power your home Wi-Fi connection,
Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.