Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...

SpaceX will launch a new round of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station into lower Earth orbit on ...

In a first, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company simulated lunar gravity on a suborbital rocket to test various science ...

One of the key questions about Blue Origin is whether it will push toward full reusability with New Glenn. In 2021, Ars first ...

At long last, Blue Origin has an orbital-class rocket that can compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9: the New Glenn. New Glenn is slightly cheaper and much more capable than SpaceX's Falcon 9 ...

The mission wasn't 100% successful. After delivering its cargo, Blue Origin attempted to land the New Glenn booster on a barge at sea, a la SpaceX and its Falcon 9 reusable rockets. New Glenn ...

But when it comes to their space rivalry, Bezos’ Blue Origin isn’t in the same room as Musk’s SpaceX. Blue Origin launched its first rocket into space on Thursday, 25 years after Bezos ...

On January 16, 2025, Blue Origin successfully conducted the inaugural flight of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A few hours later, SpaceX launched a seventh Starship in a ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to investigate what went wrong on their respective mega-rocket test flights this week. The regulator ...

With SpaceX already dominating the commercial launch field, Blue Origin would seem something of an afterthought—but it’s not. If the long drought between crewed launches from U.S. soil after ...

It's poised to open up a new business for Blue Origin and accelerate the company's effort to catch up to SpaceX as a dominating force in spaceflight. There is a lot of catching up to do ...