which would land on the barge instead of in the ocean and sinking to the bottom. The New Glenn rocket is intended to launch satellites during future missions and on its maiden launch will carry a ...

The first flight of New Glenn includes a complex maneuver: landing the first stage on a sea barge. This step, crucial for ...

The first-stage booster missed its landing on a barge in the Atlantic ... with NASA's practices for minimizing space junk. New Glenn was supposed to fly before dawn Monday, but ice buildup ...

The company also attempted to land the first-stage booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, but it was unsuccessful. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket for ...

New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during ... The rocket's reusable first stage then attempted a SpaceX-like barge landing, but missed its target and was lost at sea.

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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s space race in earnest when its New Glenn rocket roared from a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Jan. 16.

New Glenn, however, would not be as powerful as SpaceX's next-generation Starship, a fully reusable rocket system in development that Musk sees as crucial to expanding Starlink's footprint in orbit.