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 has shared a video recap of last week's maiden launch of the New Glenn, including dramatic close-up footage of the rocket leaving the launchpad.

Blue Origin has not yet announced a launch date. Friday's hot fire test involved fueling and briefly firing the New Glenn's seven engines. It was one of the key last steps before the giant rocket ...

Another major contender has entered the launch business as Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket roared into orbit today. At 2:03 am ...

Once in orbit, the upper stage released the Blue Ring Pathfinder: a small prototype spacecraft designed to host and transport ...

New Glenn is also tapped by NASA to fly a pair of Mars-bound satellites and will be the rocket to launch Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar landers, one of which is contracted to be the human landing ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday, in a critical milestone that comes some 25 ...

Like SpaceX's Falcon rockets, the first stage of the New Glenn, powered by seven methane-burning BE-4 engines generating a combined 3.8 million pounds of thrust, was designed to be reusable.

If successful, New Glenn’s first spaceflight will heat up Blue Origin and Project Kuiper’s rivalries with SpaceX.

Poor offshore weather has again prompted Blue Origin to delay the debut launch of its mighty 320-foot-plus New Glenn, and crews are now eyeing a new attempt early Monday morning. "Sea state ...