The BE-4 engine is the “most powerful liquefied natural gas fueled rocket engine ever developed,” according to Blue Origin. Watch it gimbal at full power in these hotfire test views. Credit: Space.com ...

Greg Rhodes is a Lexington High School graduate and propulsion engineer for Blue Origin, which launched its rocket, New Glenn ...

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.

Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight ...

The capsule, carrying 30 science payloads, landed in the desert 10 minutes after liftoff, slowed by parachutes and a final ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is making strides toward the Moon, with NASA’s SCALPSS 1.1 successfully capturing ...

Blue Origin has just released a video recap (above ... the 98-meter-tall rocket leaving the launchpad, with its seven BE-4 engines creating nearly 4 million pounds of thrust as it headed toward ...

All seven engines of the first stage worked as intended, and shortly after so did the powerplants on the second stage, effectively placing the Blue Origin spacecraft in orbit – thus meeting the ...

In late 2023, Mr Bezos moved to speed things up at Blue Origin, prioritising the development of New Glenn and its BE-4 engines. He named Mr Limp, an Amazon veteran, as CEO, who employees say ...

ArianeGroup completes Prometheus engine test. Although it was not revealed ... since its founding nearly a quarter of a century ago, Blue Origin has reached orbit. The long-awaited debut launch ...

The seven-engine, 320-foot New Glenn rocket — named ... who huddled on nearby beaches to watch the predawn excursion. Blue Origin employees celebrated alongside Bezos, the company’s founder ...

As its speed approached 18,000 mph, the engines shut down, and Blue Origin confirmed it had reached its destination. Once in orbit, the upper stage released the Blue Ring Pathfinder: a small ...