Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture counted down to the final hour tonight, but in the end, the company had to postpone the first-ever orbital launch of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket due to ...

“Leave before launch,” Bezos wrote in a post on X. Named New Glenn in honour of iconic astronaut John Glenn, the rocket stands 320 feet (98 meters) tall, roughly the height of a 32-story buildin ...

New Glenn, however, would not be as powerful as SpaceX's next-generation Starship, a fully reusable rocket system in development that Musk sees as crucial to expanding Starlink's footprint in orbit.

We're now ending our coverage of the New Glenn launch. It's been an overwhelming success for Blue Origin, who said prior to today that the key objective was for New Glenn to reach orbit safely ...