Private-sector heavyweights including Boeing and Blue Origin backed the creation of the tech hub in late 2023.

New Glenn, a multistage rocket named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, is the first Blue Origin rocket to ...

Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday morning on its first mission to space, an ...

Kent-based Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is key to clearing a $10 billion backlog of launch contracts for commercial customers, NASA, and the U.S. Defense... Blue Origin will try again to launch ...

Hundreds of employees at the company's Kent, Washington headquarters and its Cape Canaveral, Florida rocket factory roared in applause as Blue Origin VP Ariane Cornell announced the rocket's ...

This will be the first launch in 20 years to take place at Launch Complex 36, which previously hosted Atlas rocket launches and has been leased by Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin since 2015.

According to the Blue Origin website, the engines of the Blue Origin New Glenn reusable rocket were made in Kent, Wash. and Huntsville, Ala. The engines are the BE-3PM, BE-3U, BE-4 and BE-7.

Hundreds of employees at the company's headquarters in Kent, Washington, and at its rocket factory in Cape Canaveral, Florida, erupted with applause as Blue Origin VP Ariane Cornell announced the ...