New Glenn will also carry a secondary payload as a part of the NG-2 launch. A technology demonstration from satellite ...

Blue Origin has proposed the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) to support NASA’s Mars exploration missions. Set for a ...

The MTO, which Blue Origin says could lift off by 2028, is designed to deliver much higher bandwidth to Red Planet spacecraft ...

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin announced the arrival of the Blue Ring-based Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) ...

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced its next launch of the New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral will be for a ...

Blue Origin is set to launch its second New Glenn rocket, carrying twin NASA Mars probes, on September 29. This marks New Glenn's first interplanetary mission.

For decades, NASA built and flew its own relay orbiters and spacecraft to ferry valuable data back to Earth. Now the agency ...

NASA is moving from operating its own Mars relay network to purchasing connectivity as a service, prompting aerospace companies including Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and Lockheed Martin to ...

The ESCAPADE launch is the second mission of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, a 320-foot-tall heavy-lift rocket with seven BE-4 engines that burn liquefied natural gas.

An alternative trajectory developed for a NASA Mars smallsat mission could enable other missions to go to Mars outside ...

In further alignment with Trump’s energy goals, Sean Duffy, transportation secretary and acting NASA administrator, announced plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon. The private sector is ...

Blue Origin’s first launch of its New Glenn rocket was supposed to send up a pair of Mars-bound satellites for NASA, but uncertain readiness plans last year forced NASA to yank back its payload.