Mixed Success After many delays and scrubs, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday morning. The company's rocket, which is 90 feet taller and can produce roughly twice as much thrust at liftoff than SpaceX's Falcon 9,

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin on Monday called off its inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket after a number of last-minute issues – hurting the space firm in its race to compete with Elon Musk ...

The first-ever launch of the New Glenn represents a major milestone for the Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, whose Blue Origin spaceflight company has now officially entered the orbital launch market and heavy-lift space industry, setting it up to compete with the likes of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The New Glenn rocket, towering at approximately 320 feet, is designed to compete directly with SpaceX's Falcon 9 by demonstrating reusability.

The scheduled Sunday launch could mark a new phase in competition in the commercial space market, and pave the way for the deployment of Amazon's Kuiper satellite network.

Five years after it was supposed to launch, the new, huge cargo rocket's first flight has been called off. Jeff Bezos's New Glenn is seen as a potential challenger to SpaceX's Falcon 9.

Blue Origin expects the New Glenn to provide a viable alternative to SpaceX's market-dominating Falcon family of rockets.

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is preparing ... which shares similar proportions and stats with SpaceX's Falcon 9 workhorse, for well over a decade. But whether it can truly compete with ...