The successful flight to orbit of the Amazon founder’s powerful rocket suggests it could grow into a credible competitor with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago. He took part in Monday’s countdown from Mission Control, located at the rocket factory just outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Orlando, Florida.

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. Named after the first American to orbit Earth,

If New Glenn can continue to demonstrate its capabilities and (more crucially) its reliability, it has the potential to take some business that SpaceX would otherwise struggle to accommodate.

Watch as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin attempted to launch ... message posted on X. New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. According to Blue Origin, the rocket is “engineered with the safety and redundancy required ...

New Glenn’s second stage and payload are now in orbit” An initial test launch of the towering 98 metre rocket, dubbed New Glenn in honour of legendary American astronaut John Glenn ... dubbed NG-1, Amazon founder Bezos is taking aim at the only ...

Blue Origin's successful maiden launch of New Glenn rocket made billionaire Jeff Bezos hungry. He ate breakfast at a Florida diner in Florida after.

The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was initially scheduled to launch early Monday with a prototype satellite aboard.

New Glenn safely reached its intended ... and deliver Project Kuiper on time in 2026. And Amazon has Blue Origin to thank for it. John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon ...

Billionaire Amazon owner Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has seen a successful launch of its new rocket this morning. The 98-metre New Glenn rocket was supposed to blast off in Florida on Monday but the launch was called off due to a technical issue.

The reusable spacecraft had been due to take off from Florida but the launch was halted as anomalies were detected after the countdown began

message posted on X. New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. According to Blue Origin, the rocket is “engineered with the safety and redundancy required to fly ...