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 ...

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 ...

Blue Origin has just released a video recap (above) of last week’s successful maiden launch of its heavy-lift rocket, the New Glenn. The footage shows some dramatic close-ups of the 98-meter ...

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.