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.

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The seven BE-4 engines roared — sending awed spectators into screams and cheers — as Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket ascended ... is now breaking into the orbit payload market.

Compared with SpaceX's Falcon 9, the world's most active rocket, New Glenn is roughly twice as powerful with a payload bay diameter two times larger to fit bigger batches of satellites.

SpaceX and ULA use 17- to 18-foot-diameter fairings, so New Glenn’s cargo space is roughly double, able to fit up to three school buses, or 28 Tesla roadsters. While Blue Origin has already been ...