Patrick Space Force Base has cleared Launch Complex 36 for Blue Origin to begin assessing damage following last week’s New Glenn rocket explosion.
So far, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp says the big support tower at Launch Complex 36 is damaged after a New Glenn Rocket exploded last week, and will need repairs. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and liquefied natural gas tanks are all in good shape, and the water tower is also in good shape.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday night.
Spectators gathered in Titusville to watch a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launch Friday evening, less than 24 hours after a Blue Origin New Glenn explosion. Visitors praised the resilience of the space industry as two successful launches lifted off from the Cape following the mishap.
An explosion lit up the sky over Cape Canaveral, sending a fireball into the night and shaking residents as far as 10 miles from the launch pads. Dozens of people who live near the site say they didn’t just hear the blast but felt it.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is assessing damage to its Florida launch pad after a rocket exploded during a test firing.
A Blue Origin rocket has apparently exploded at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night, according to footage online.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin is blaming a bad engine for a failed launch that left a satellite in the wrong orbit, dooming it.
Moments after the NG-3 mission launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:25 a.m. on Sunday, the company said the direct-to-cellphone satellite on board was deployed into the wrong orbit.
A concerned community hopes to stop a rocket company’s rocket wastewater from winding up in the Indian River Lagoon.
Earlier this week, News 6 told you that Tory Bruno, the CEO for United Launch Alliance, had left the company to pursue a new opportunity. Now we know what it is — he went to Blue Origin.
Tory Bruno, who led ULA since 2014 and oversaw the development of the Vulcan rocket, resigned Monday to “pursue another opportunity,” according to a joint statement by the ULA board chairs for Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
The city of Cape Canaveral will decide whether to send a letter to the state, demanding a public hearing over whether to renew a permit for Blue Origin that would allow it to dump discharge waters that flow to the Indian River Lagoon.
Billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman is back before the Senate after being yanked and then renominated by President Donald Trump for NASA's top job.
Brevard County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to request a public meeting with state environmental regulators over Blue Origin’s controversial plan to discharge industrial wastewater into the Indian River Lagoon.
Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection is preparing to allow the company to discharge thousands of gallons of wastewater every day, according to a public notice released by the state on Nov. 18. Meanwhile, the county is considering renewing a tax to continue cleaning up the lagoon.
Strong solar storms responsible for breathtaking auroras across the U.S. have delayed the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket.
With the government shutdown extending into a second month, there are some new concerns about how the space industry could be impacted.
SpaceX’s plan to land NASA astronauts on the moon for Artemis III is on shaky ground after the space agency’s head announced plans to open the $4.4 billion contract to other companies.
Blue Origin has launched Jeff Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sanchez into space with an all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Gayle King.
When CBS Morning co-host Gayle King and Katy Perry join four other women on a flight to the edge of space Monday, they’ll be receiving support on the ground from a woman who’s flown the same trip twice.
Pop star Katy Perry and CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King will be on board Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket for its 11th human flight to the edge of space.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home.
Everything, from the hardware to the onboard software and mission control computers on the New Glenn rocket, is newly built from scratch.
Blue Origin will try again to launch its massive new rocket as early as Thursday after calling off the debut launch because of ice buildup in critical plumbing.
If you’re hearing rumors about when the brand-new mega-rocket from a company other than SpaceX will launch from our Space Coast for the first time on a test flight, you’re not alone.
On New Year's Eve, a Falcon 9 brought to a close the most prolific year ever for launches here.
Blue Origin now has the license to attempt a first launch of its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Marc and Sharon Hagle, who in 2022 became the first married couple to launch on a commercial space vehicle, are set to do it again.
Blue Origin will attempt a crewed launch of its reusable New Shepard rocket Sunday morning in Texas, marking the company's 25th mission using the launch vehicle and its seventh flight with humans on board.
Rather than bidding $28 million to embark on a journey to space, you can now head over to the Kennedy Space Center and feel the sights and sounds of outer-world travel.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he is moving back to Miami after nearly three decades in Seattle, according to our partners at WPLG Local 10.
One year after a rocket launch failure, Blue Origin is a big step closer to returning tourists to the edge of space.
Amazon has selected NASA's Kennedy Space Center for construction of a $120 million processing facility for its upcoming network of space-based internet satellites known as Kuiper.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson accompanied fellow agency heads Friday morning to announce Blue Origin was awarded a contract to develop a lunar lander for upcoming Artemis moon missions.
Steve Young, the owner of Pineapples restaurant in Melbourne, rocketed to zero-gravity in August and said that even after Monday's failure for Blue Origin, the businessman is still confident the New Shepard is safe.
A New Shepard mission carrying dozens of small research projects, including one from a Kissimmee school, into space experienced an “anomaly” during launch at Blue Origin’s west Texas site.
A New Shepard mission that sought to carry dozens of small research projects to space was scrubbed due to weather at Blue Origin’s west Texas launch site.
A school threat reported to authorities by students and parents at Olympia High School has been determined to be unfounded, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Blue Origin is set to launch six people, including a Brevard County restaurant owner, to suborbital space.
The staff at Pineapple’s in Melbourne were excited Wednesday evening, just hours before their boss is scheduled to launch into space.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and SpaceX all planned on launching crewed and uncrewed missions throughout the day Thursday, from both rural West Texas and the Florida coast.
Blue Origin has scheduled a Thursday morning launch for its sixth New Shepard crewed mission, which will take Pineapples owner Steve Young and five companions soaring into space, according to News 6 partner Florida Today.
Blue Origin announced on Friday the six-member crew for its next flight, and it includes a restaurant owner in Melbourne.
A Brevard County businessman who recently sold the telecommunications-installation company Y-Com will get to fly on a future Blue Origin rocket trip, according to News 6 partner Florida Today.
During a broadcast from the Seacrest studio at Arnold Palmer Hospital for children, Sharon Hagle had a chance to share her experience with the children about what it was like to launch into space.
A 26-year-old electrical and hardware engineer will become the first Mexican-born woman in space when she joins a diverse international crew for a 10-minute flight launched by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.
It’s only been a week since a Winter Park couple boarded a Blue Origin rocket for a 10-minute flight in space.
Blue Origin’s upcoming heavy-lift New Glenn rocket will have to wait at least another year for its Florida debut, according to recent comments by an executive later confirmed by the company itself, according to News 6 partner Florida Today.
Blue Origin, the space tourism company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced on Monday who would be on board its next flight into space.
While SpaceX and United Launch Alliance have been sending rockets up at an increased pace the past several years, the Space Coast is about to get much busier with more commercial rocket companies set to join the launch party.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will no longer give out commercial astronaut wings starting next year because too many people are launching into space.
The world's second-richest man's rocket company has applied to modify an environmental permit to expand its factory at Kennedy Space Center.
A federal judge has denied Blue Origin's protest of a multibillion-dollar NASA moon lander contract awarded to SpaceX earlier this year, the agency confirmed Thursday.
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Sierra Space announced Monday they are teaming up to build “Orbital Reef,” a new commercial space station.
