Nearly 25 years after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the company is finally poised to send its first rocket to orbit. New ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first ... The NG-1 mission will carry a prototype of Blue Ring, a US Defence Department-funded spacecraft envisioned ...

Like Bezos, SpaceX’s Musk has his own concept ... Blue Origin opted to instead fly a “demonstrator” that will test technology needed for the company’s proposed Blue Ring spacecraft ...

The first launch will send up Blue Origin’s Blue Ring Pathfinder, a demonstrator spacecraft that will test the communications, power and control systems for the company’s Blue Ring space ...

For its first New Glenn flight, Blue Origin will not launch a payload at all. Instead, the mission, called NG-1, is carrying the Blue Ring Pathfinder, a 45,000-pound (20,411 kilograms) payload ...

The 320-foot-tall rocket will carry demonstrator technology for Blue Origin’s Blue Ring spacecraft, an orbital transfer vehicle that’s designed to provide transportation, logistics ...

NG-1 will carry the Blue Ring Pathfinder, a demonstrator for Blue Origin’s multi-mission space mobility platform designed to deliver payloads to geostationary orbit (GEO), cislunar and interplanetary ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is on the cusp of ...

While Blue Origin has not officially confirmed the launch date, excitement has been building since a successful "hot-fire" test on December 27. "Next stop launch," Bezos declared on X, sharing a video ...