The Cape's July launch schedule features a variety of SpaceX Starlink missions, with space fans anticipating target dates for NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission, United Launch Alliance's USSF-106 national ...

New Glenn versus Falcon 9. SpaceX's own website lays out the problem in black and white. Maxed out for an expendable launch, a Falcon 9 rocket ship can carry at most 22 metric tons of payload to ...

New Glenn isn't meant to be a Starship competitor anyway, Tripathi said.. New Glenn has a payload capacity in between that of SpaceX's Falcon 9 and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, which is "a nice place to ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, announced in 2016, is set to debut this week, no earlier than January 8 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, according to the launch site SpaceFlight Now.

The New Glenn rocket dwarfs SpaceX's Falcon 9, standing 320 feet tall compared to Falcon 9's 230 feet. It also boasts a higher payload capacity, capable of lifting up to 45 tons into space, ...

And just like SpaceX's Falcon 9, Blue Origin is going to try to land the massive New Glenn first stage on a recovery ship, known as Jacklyn, waiting in the Atlantic Ocean.

Like SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, Blue Origin plans to reuse New Glenn's first stage. This method of reusability saves space companies resources and can lower launch expenses.

The making of New Glenn has become a passion project of Bezos, who has led the funding for the 320-foot rocket. The launch site alone ran up a bill of $1 billion, which was used to rebuild Complex ...

If successful, New Glenn’s launch debut could position Blue Origin to better compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX — which has long dominated the commercial launch sector. What to watch for ...

Blue Origin New Glenn vs. SpaceX Starship: Production and Costs. Blue Origin has invested $2.5 billion to date. Musk has suggested that the SpaceX BFR will cost around $5 billion to develop, ...