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“Welcome to orbit on the first attempt!” Musk wrote in a letter to Bezos on X.
Dave Limp, CEO of Bezos’ space company Blue Origin, said he was “very proud”.
“We will learn a lot from today and try again at the next launch this spring,” he added.
Bezos’ team overcame technical hurdles that caused delays earlier this week when ice formations halted the launch.
Blue Origin employees and crowds gathered near Cape Canaveral cheered as the 98-meter-tall rocket hurtled into orbit.
But the company failed to land New Glenn’s main rocket engine, or booster, on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
It hoped that the booster could be used again for future launches but after 20 minutes of flight, the company confirmed that it had lost an engine.
Bezos’ company Blue Origin has struggled to match the pace set by SpaceX. But this launch will be seen as a major step for the business.
The New Glenn rocket is named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth more than 60 years ago.
The rocket is more powerful than SpaceX’s most-used rocket, the Falcon 9. It can also carry more satellites, and Bezos wants to use it as part of his Project Kuiper, which aims to deploy thousands of low-earth satellites to provide broadband. service
The project will compete directly with Musk’s Starlink service.
