Tag: Blue Origin
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Launch success brings Blue Origin closer to resuming crewed suborbital space trips
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster touches down at the end of an uncrewed flight. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today sent its New Shepard rocket ship on its first suborbital trip to space in 15 months — and although no people were aboard the craft this time, the research mission boosted confidence…
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Blue Origin ramps up for second launch attempt after delaying return to spaceflight
The New Shepard rocket ship is readied for launch from Launch Site One in West Texas. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is heading back to the launch pad again early Tuesday to send its New Shepard rocket ship on an uncrewed space mission for the first time in 15 months. Monday’s…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard returns to flight
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is returned to flight on Dec. 19, 2023, from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas. This mission followed a failure during the last New Shepard mission, NS-23, on Sept. 12, 2023. The NS-24 mission lifted off from Launch Site One carrying 33 science and research payloads as well…
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Jeff Bezos says what we’re all thinking: “Blue Origin needs to be much faster”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gives very few interviews, but he recently sat down with the computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman for a two-hour interview about Amazon, Blue Origin, his business practices, and more. The discussion meanders somewhat, but there are some interesting tidbits about spaceflight, especially when the conversation turns to Blue Origin. This…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket set for return to flight mission
Update (9:25 a.m. EST / 1425 UTC, Dec. 19): Blue Origin is targeting its next available launch attempt, which is Dec. 19 at 10:37 AM CST / 16:37 UTC. After more than a year of being sidelined, Blue Origin is preparing for a resurgence of its New Shepard rocket suborbital flights. In a social media…
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Blue Origin sure seems confident it will launch New Glenn in 2024
For the first time, it’s starting to feel like Jeff Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, might have a shot at launching its long-delayed New Glenn rocket within the next 12 months. Of course, there’s a lot for Blue Origin to test and validate before New Glenn is ready to fly. First, the company’s engineers need…
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After 15 months Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft will finally fly again
Blue Origin is finally returning to flight. On Tuesday the company announced, via the social media site X, that its New Shepard spacecraft would launch no earlier than next Monday. “We’re targeting a launch window that opens on Dec. 18 for our next New Shepard payload mission,” the company stated. “#NS24 will carry 33 science…
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Blue Origin is ready to launch New Shepard spaceship after more than a year on hold
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship was grounded after a failed mission in 2022. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to send its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on an uncrewed research mission as early as Dec. 18, marking the company’s first launch since a rocket engine malfunction spoiled a similar uncrewed mission…
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Blue Origin nearing New Glenn milestones ahead of debut flight
As 2023 nears its close, there has been a large increase in publicly visible movement from Blue Origin around its Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral facilities. With sightings of New Glenn booster segments, upper-stage tank sections, payload fairings, and new support hardware arriving at Port Canaveral, it seems Blue Origin is pushing to hit…
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NASA will launch a Mars mission on Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket
The first flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket seems to have a payload. Instead of launching a sports car, as SpaceX did with its first Falcon Heavy rocket, Jeff Bezos’s space company will likely launch a pair of Mars probes for NASA. NASA is aware of the risk of launching a real science mission…