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.

Privately owned Blue Origin has achieved its goal—a decade in the making—of becoming an orbital launch player, even as it failed to recover its first-stage booster in the ambitious inaugural flight of its New Glenn rocket on its NG-1 mission.

Blue Origin will launch its first-ever New Glenn rocket on Jan. 10. Here's what time it will fly and where to look to watch it.

Jeff Bezos' humongous reusable rocket, New Glenn, made its way to orbit in its first test flight earlier today.

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.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is expected to launch from the space coast early Monday morning. According to Blue Origin, the launch window will open at 1 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 13, and will remain open for three hours. This mission will serve as New Glenn's first certification flight for National Security Space Launch.

New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective. The second stage is in its final orbit following

Everything, from the hardware to the onboard software and mission control computers on the New Glenn rocket, is newly built from scratch.

Blue Origin has postponed the Maiden Flight space mission of its New Glenn rocket. The launch has been rescheduled for Sunday, January 12, between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. ORLANDO, Fla. - Blue Origin has postponed the Maiden Flight space mission of its New Glenn rocket.

After years of development, Blue Origin is finally ready to conduct the maiden test flight of the company’s New Glenn rocket. The flight is currently scheduled for a three-hour launch window on Friday, Jan. 10, starting at 1 am EST. The company plans to begin live streaming the event on BlueOrigin.com about an hour before the launch.

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.