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November 14, 2025

Spaceflight Firm Founded by Jeff Bezos Lands First Stage of Giant Rocket, Challenging Musk's SpaceX
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The rocket company founded by Amazon multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos has
successfully landed the first stage of its giant new launch vehicle, in
a major challenge to Elon Musk's Space X, which dominates the commercial
space industry. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket took off from Cape
Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday afternoon carrying a pair of
NASA space probes bound for Mars. By successfully landing its booster
stage on a drone ship downrange, Blue Origin seeks to dramatically cut
the cost of launching satellites to Earth orbit and beyond. That's
central to plans by Jeff Bezos to build a constellation of internet
satellites to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink, which has about 9,000
operational satellites on orbit.


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