Blue Origin also seeks to develop a space tug as part of its ESPA ring, allowing ride-along satellites to reach different orbits than the rocket's primary payload.

Blue Ring is described as “rather large” but it can fly inside of the current 5.4-m (18-ft.) fairings of National Security Space Launch-class vehicles, like Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Vulcan—and it ...

2025 looming large as Blue Ring pathfinder prepped for liftoff Blue Origin has confirmed its New Glenn rocket is on track for launch before the end of 2024.… The company made the announcement ...

Blue Origin has taken the wraps off Blue Ring, its multi-orbit, multi-mission space platform that will provide a wide variety of logistical services to commercial and government customers, from ...

On NG-1, Blue Origin hopes to demonstrate Blue Ring’s ability to beam communications from space to the ground, among other test objectives. New Glenn’s upper stage will spend about six hours ...

Blue Origin says its Blue Ring orbital transfer vehicle will be able to host more than 3,000 kilograms of payload, operating in Earth orbit through cislunar space. Credit: Blue Origin.

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit Thursday morning. With it, the New Glenn toted its Blue Ring Pathfinder, a prototype to help satellites maneuver in space, which ...

“Blue Origin is a great company whose ambitions for space are truly matched by their ingenuity and expertise. Adding value to missions like Blue Ring is why ATLAS was founded.

Blue Origin is targeting New Glenn’s inaugural mission (NG-1) for no earlier than Friday, January 10. It will launch from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, the ...

Blue Origin plans to launch the debut mission of its powerful New Glenn rocket early Friday morning (Jan. 10), and you can watch the action live. New Glenn is scheduled to lift off from Florida's ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket streaks into orbit after launching from the Kennedy Space Center on its maiden flight, at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 16, 2025.

Blue Origin already has practice in booster recovery with its smaller suborbital rocket New Shepard, that fly out of Texas, but the 322-foot-tall New Glenn is a much bigger brother powered by ...