The U.S. has entered a new era of heavy-lift launch—one of choice. The inaugural flight of privately owned Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket also kicks off what promises to be a busy year for developers.

Blue Origin has shared a video recap of last week's maiden launch of the New Glenn, including dramatic close-up footage of the rocket leaving the launchpad.

It will be this 320-foot tall multi-stage New Glenn which brings Blue Origin into the orbital − and beyond − payload game, becoming a competitor to SpaceX. A rocket with more than one stage is needed ...

Blue Origin launched its first orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, into space for the first time on 16 January. The New Glenn ...

Another major contender has entered the launch business as Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket roared into orbit today. At 2:03 am ...

Service leaders see the launch vehicle as a future competitor to SpaceX's Falcon series rockets that currently have a lock on the most critical launches under the Defense Department's National ...

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once ...

Blue Ring Pathfinder payload for New Glenn's first mission, NG-1 At one point, a countdown clock showed just minutes remaining before liftoff. However, Blue Origin's engineers kept adding more ...

New Glenn's payload bay carried the first prototype of Blue Ring, a spacecraft platform designed to provide satellite services for the Pentagon and commercial customers. Blue Origin first publicly ...

Blue Origin notes that the entire New Shepard vehicle can fit snugly within New Glenn’s cargo bay. And while New Shepard’s single rocket engine can blast the vehicle on brief joy rides that ...

The launch window would again be 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. About the rocket: New Glenn is a bit taller than the Statue of Liberty and its base. The rocket has a larger payload capacity than other rockets ...

The 320-foot New Glenn orbital-class rocket -- named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth -- is set to transport to space a payload of the Blue Ring Pathfinder, which is designed to ...