Tag: BE-3
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Blue Origin blames September New Shepard abort on engine nozzle failure
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The BE-3 main engine on Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster fails about a minute after liftoff Sept. 12 on an uncrewed suborbital flight. Credit: Blue Origin Structural failure of the nozzle at the base of a rocket engine powering an unpiloted New Shepard spacecraft toward the edge of…
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Blue Origin practices crew operations on suborbital test flight
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated April 15 with Bezos tweet. Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lifts off at 12:51 p.m. EDT (11:51 a.m. CDT; 1651 GMT) Wednesday. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, took another step toward launching people to the edge of space Wednesday with a suborbital test flight of…
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Blue Origin to rehearse for human passengers on suborbital flight
A view of Blue Origin’s launch site in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Finally on the cusp of launching people to the edge of space, Blue Origin plans to use a suborbital test flight of its New Shepard booster and crew capsule Wednesday to rehearse boarding and recovery procedures for future missions with paying passengers.…
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Blue Origin tests passenger accommodations on suborbital launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated after launch. Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket lifts off from West Texas on Thursday. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin says it is “very, very close” to flying humans on suborbital launches to the edge of space after a successful test flight of a human-capable rocket and capsule Thursday. The company’s New Shepard rocket…