Tag: BE-3
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Blue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth time
Updated at 11:15 a.m. EDT (1515 GMT) Sunday after successful flight. Blue Origin’s suborbital space transport system made another test flight Sunday, launching and landing at the company’s West Texas test facility to prove out the crew capsule’s resiliency to a parachute failure. The test flight also marked a change in public relations for the once-secretive…
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Details of Orbital ATK’s proposed heavy launcher revealed
A fivei-segment solid rocket motor designed as a strap-on booster for NASA’s Space Launch System undergoes a test firing at Orbital ATK’s Utah plant. The company’s Next-Generation Launcher would use a derivative of the booster with composite casings and only two or four segments. Credit: NASA The launch vehicle Orbital ATK wants to face off…
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Details of Orbital ATK’s proposed heavy launcher revealed
A fivei-segment solid rocket motor designed as a strap-on booster for NASA’s Space Launch System undergoes a test firing at Orbital ATK’s Utah plant. The company’s Next-Generation Launcher would use a derivative of the booster with composite casings and only two or four segments. Credit: NASA The launch vehicle Orbital ATK wants to face off…
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Companies offer fresh perspectives on recent rocket landings
In case the the sight of a large rocket plummeting back to Earth, only to be slowed in the last seconds by a puff of engine thrust, hasn’t lost its novelty yet, SpaceX and Blue Origin have released dramatic videos showing their recent powered rocket landings from new angles. SpaceX posted a clip on YouTube…
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Orbital ATK eyes Kennedy Space Center as home of potential new launcher
File photo of the Vehicle Assembly Building with a crawler-transporter in the foreground. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA announced Thursday that Orbital ATK has begun negotiations to lease a disused section of Kennedy Space Center’s iconic Vehicle Assembly Building and an Apollo-era launch platform for the company’s proposed next-generation rocket. The space agency said it selected…
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Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard booster flies again
Two months after it flew into space and landed smoothly, Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard booster made the trip again Friday, proving it can be reused for future space tourism jaunts and laying the groundwork for a future commercial satellite launcher, the company said. The hydrogen-fueled single stage rocket took off and landed at a…
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Orbital ATK, SpaceX nab U.S. Air Force propulsion contracts
Blue Origin successfully test fires its BE-3 high-performance liquid hydrogen engine thrust chamber at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in this 2012 file photo. Credit: NASA Orbital ATK and SpaceX won Pentagon contracts worth a combined value of up to $241 million Wednesday in public-private partnerships crafted to hasten the U.S. military’s move away from Russian-supplied propulsion…
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Orbital ATK, SpaceX nab U.S. Air Force propulsion contracts
Blue Origin successfully test fires its BE-3 high-performance liquid hydrogen engine thrust chamber at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in this 2012 file photo. Credit: NASA Orbital ATK and SpaceX won Pentagon contracts worth a combined value of up to $241 million Wednesday in public-private partnerships crafted to hasten the U.S. military’s move away from Russian-supplied propulsion…
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Bezos’ Blue Origin completes first test flight of ‘New Shepard’ spacecraft
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin, a rocket engine and spacecraft development company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, carried out an unpiloted maiden test flight of the company’s New Shepard sub-orbital launch vehicle Wednesday, the historically secretive company revealed early Thursday. A dramatic video posted on the company’s website showed…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard conducts first test flight
Blue Origin has conducted a test flight of its New Shepard suborbital system. Aimed at the space tourism market, the BE-3 engine-driven rocket lofted its capsule to Mach 3 and its planned test altitude of 307,000 feet. Attempts to recover the booster – which is designed to be reusable – were unsuccessful, although tweaks to the hydraulic…