If we're being frank, which is how we roll in the Rocket Report, some of Orbex's recent activity does not inspire confidence.

Here's the long-anticipated moment that Blue Origin got its New Glenn rocket off the ground this morning in Florida. The huge vehicle successful took off and managed to complete its goal of ...

SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket has stumbled on the road to commercial use. On Thursday, it unexpectedly dropped out of communications and exploded as it screamed toward space for its seventh flight.

A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up during a test flight of ... Starship was meant to take off from its launch site at the southern tip of Texas over the Gulf of Mexico, lap Earth and splash down ...

and was called off during a Nov. 19 liftoff. Musk's goal is for the SpaceX vehicle, which is composed of both the 165-foot Starship spacecraft itself and the 232-foot Super Heavy rocket ...

New Glenn’s flight was supposed to take off on Monday, but ice buildup in the rocket’s plumbing delayed the launch. The rocket’s debut was supposed to help send two NASA spacecraft to Mars ...

That doesn’t mean, however, that 1 a.m. is when the rocket will take off. Any minor hiccup — from technical issues with the rocket to poor weather condition — could push back the takeoff ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket blasted off Thursday from a launchpad near Cape Canaveral, Fla., with flames pouring out from its booster. Liftoff marked a years-in-the-making milestone for Bezos ...

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off on its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 16, 2025. REUTERS/Steve Nesius A Blue Origin ...

Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA’s Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft a half-century ago.

Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin on Thursday launched its new mega-rocket, called New Glenn, into orbit for the first time. The rocket lifted off at ... business and take on Elon ...