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).

Blue Origin says it's delaying the first launch of its New Glenn rocket due to unfavorable weather conditions for landing the booster.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is the company's first orbital-class launch vehicle. It stands a towering 320 feet tall (98 meters). It features a reusable first stage designed to return to Earth after launch and land on a barge named Jacklyn, after Jeff Bezos ' mother, in the Atlantic Ocean.

SpaceX is targeting Friday, Jan. 3 for its first Falcon 9 mission of 2025 as it launches the Thuraya 4 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Kent-based Blue Origin plans to launch its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket overnight. At 320 feet tall, New Glenn towers over SpaceX’s 229-foot-tall Falcon 9.

Blue Origin hopes New Glenn will make it safely to orbit for the inaugural test flight of a rocket that could rival those in Elon Musk's SpaceX fleet.

Jeff Bezos’s space company is about to launch New Glenn, a reusable rocket intended to rival SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, for the first time