New Glenn will lift off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral with Blue Origin’s Blue Ring Pathfinder—a prototype spacecraft designed to host and transport up to 3,000 kilograms of payloads, refuel visiting spacecraft, and enable in-space computing and communications.

Blue Origin is preparing for a possible launch of its New Glenn rocket next week, according to a recent aerospace advisory.

Stay tuned. Crews at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are gearing up for a busy January, including SpaceX Starlink internet satellite missions, Blue Origin's maiden flight of the mighty New Glenn rocket, and the NASA-SpaceX Blue Ghost moon lander mission.

Nearly a quarter century after its founding, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is gearing up to launch an orbital rocket for the first time — and finally enter the

The company, owned by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, also received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to launch the vehicle to orbit.

Jeff Bezos’ aerospace firm Blue Origin fired up the engines on its massive new rocket, the New Glenn, on Friday — a last critical test needed to pave the way for the vehicle’s debut launch to space.

Standing 320 feet tall, New Glenn is a massive multi-stage rocket designed to produce an estimated 3.9 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.

The FAA says Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has “met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements” to launch its heavy-lift rocket New Glenn.