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.

After numerous delays and a last-minute scrub on Monday, Blue Origin finally launched the inaugural flight of its massive New Glenn rocket.

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 on Monday revealed plans for the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket from Florida’s Space Coast.

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

Jeff Bezos’ company is gearing up to launch its New Glenn rocket, kicking off a year in which the industry anticipates to grow under the Trump administration.

After years of development, Blue Origin’s semi-reusable heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, successfully

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.

By comparison, last year's total of 93 orbital rocket launches breezed to a new Florida annual record. The former record was 72 launches in 2023.

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.

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.