Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin will launch its first orbital rocket "no earlier than Friday", it said, a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

The Space Coast could welcome a big player to the launch landscape tonight with the debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

The successful launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket this week would have a notable impact on local space exploration.

After years of development, Blue Origin is finally ready to conduct the maiden test flight of the company’s New Glenn rocket. The flight is currently scheduled for a three-hour launch window on Friday, Jan. 10, starting at 1 am EST. The company plans to begin live streaming the event on BlueOrigin.com about an hour before the launch.

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Blue Origin's New Glenn on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (Blue Origin Image) Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture says it's

Blue Origin plans to launch the debut mission of its powerful New Glenn rocket no earlier than early Sunday (Jan. 12) after a delay, and you can watch the action live. New Glenn is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the wee hours of Sunday during a three-hour window that opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT).

US space company Blue Origin is now aiming to launch its first orbital rocket on Sunday, it announced on X, because of rough seas in the Atlantic where it hopes to land the first stage booster on a ship.

Check back for live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch updates on this page, starting about two hours before the 1 a.m. Sunday launch window opens.

New Glenn will launch with the Blue Ring Pathfinder. Blue Origin said the goal with this launch is to test “Blue Ring’s core flight, ground systems, and operational capabilities as part of the Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Orbital Logistics prototype effort.”