The New Glenn’s upper stage successfully completed two burns of its BE-3U engines to carry the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload into orbit while remaining attached to the upper stage. The Blue Ring ...

The rocket has a reusable first stage that contains Blue Origin's BE-4 engines fueled by a mixture of liquid natural gas and liquid oxygen. The New Glenn's upper stage is powered by Blue Origin's ...

The design of New Glenn has had subtle changes as development continues. The upper stage will now be powered by a vacuum optimized BE-3 engine, designated BE-3U, based off of New Shepard’s ...

Plans called for the second stage to be placed in a safe condition to stay in a high, out-of-the-way orbit in accordance with NASA's practices for minimizing space junk. New Glenn was supposed to ...

Despite a lengthy development time and plenty of setbacks, the multi-stage rocket is no slouch. The New Glenn can produce roughly twice as much thrust at liftoff than Falcon 9, but falls short of ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring an investigation over the failure to land the first stage of the New Glenn before the rocket is allowed to fly again. Later that day, SpaceX ...

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin will have to wait a little longer for the long-anticipated maiden orbital flight of its brand-new rocket after a launch attempt dragged on for hours before ...