The U.S. has entered a new era of heavy-lift launch—one of choice. The inaugural flight of privately owned Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket also kicks off what promises to be a busy year for developers.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn ... foot-wide) payload fairing, which Blue Origin says can provide twice the volume of a standard 5-meter fairing. An entire New Shepard rocket could fit within the ...

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once ...

New Glenn lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just 2 a.m., carrying an experimental payload it built for a Defense Innovation Unit program. “New Glenn is foundational t ...

When New Glenn starts flying it will operate much like a larger SpaceX Falcon 9. New Glenn has comparable payload mass to the SpaceX Falcon Heavy. They will try to recover the first stage booster to a ...

However, New Glenn has a unique edge: its wider payload fairing, which can accommodate larger objects. It "has the largest capacity to put objects in space, large objects" as a result of its wider ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn ... foot-wide) payload fairing, which Blue Origin says can provide twice the volume of a standard 5-meter fairing. An entire New Shepard rocket could fit within the ...

New Glenn is a bit taller than the Statue of Liberty. It can lift 45 metric tons to low-Earth orbit and possesses a greater payload volume than other rockets currently in operation. It carried a ...