The Amazon founder’s space company marked a major milestone Thursday with the first test flight of its New Glenn rocket.

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.

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Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates before, during and after the historic liftoff of Blue Origin's New Glenn maiden mission on Thursday, Jan. 16, from Cape Canaveral. Original story ...

Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit. The debut flight of New ...

Lumbering off the launch pad from a billowing fiery cloud, Blue Origin's mighty 321-foot-tall New Glenn rocket hurtled into the history books early Thursday morning on its maiden mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The two-stage rocket lifted ...

Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin on Thursday launched its new mega-rocket, called New Glenn, into orbit for the first time. The rocket lifted off at 2:03 a.m. ET on January 16 from ...

Ehud Behar, an astrophysics professor at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, lauded Blue Origin's achievement. "Blue Origin has achieved an admirable feat by making it into orbit on the ...

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Shrugging off bad weather, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its powerful New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight early Thursday, lighting up a cloudy overnight sky as it climbed away from Cape Canaveral in a high-stakes bid to compete with Elon Musk's industry-leading SpaceX.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket has launched from Florida and entered orbit for the first time However the rocket booster - designed to land on a platform in the Atlantic so it can be used again ...

Founded 25 years ago by Bezos, Blue Origin has been launching paying passengers to the edge of space since 2021, including himself. The short hops from Texas use smaller rockets named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard. New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller.