Tag: Blue Origin
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture agrees to buy Honeybee Robotics, a pioneer in rover hardware
Honeybee Robotics co-founder Steve Gorevan stands in front of a rover model that started out as an earthbound twin of NASA’s Curiosity rover and eventually became the Perseverance rover on Mars. (Honeybee Robotics Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has struck a deal to acquire Honeybee Robotics, a trailblazer in the business of building…
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NASA puts Blue Origin and Spaceflight on a new list for commercial launch contracts
An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on its launch pad. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA has chosen a dozen companies to provide commercial launch services for relatively small-scale space missions over the next five years, including two ventures with Washington state connections. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. will…
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NASA gives a lift to 57 high-flying student experiments, including one from the Seattle area
NASA launches a Raven Aerostar high-altitude balloon. (NASA Photo / Bill Rodman) NASA has chosen 57 winning teams — including a team from Interlake High School in Bellevue, Wash.— to receive funding to build and fly experiments focusing on subjects ranging from lunar dust mitigation to inkjet printing in zero gravity. Interlake’s team will focus…
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Year in Space: Jeff Bezos and his billionaire rivals finally usher in the age of commercial spaceflight
Jeff Bezos uncorks the bubbly after riding Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship. (Blue Origin Photo) For 25 years, I’ve been recapping the top stories about space and looking forward to next year’s trends on the final frontier — and for most of that time, the dawn of the era of commercial spaceflight has been…
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Crypto ambassador says he won Blue Origin’s $28M auction and is buying five more tickets to space
A digital rendering shows crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun in a spacesuit. (Justin Sun via Twitter) The winner of June’s $28 million auction for a seat on Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship revealed himself today — and is buying tickets for five more people to fly with him a year from now. It would be hard to…
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Marking another first, Blue Origin sends six spacefliers on a single suborbital trip
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship lifts off from West Texas. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture guided another suborbital space trip into the record books today — a trip that also marked a giant leap toward making space tourism routine. When Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship lifted off from…
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Blue Origin launches NS-19 with full passenger complement
Blue Origin launched a crew of six people on board a New Shepard rocket on Saturday, December 11 from the company’s West Texas facility at Corn Ranch. The liftoff took place at 9:01 am CST at the launch site, or 15:01 UTC. This flight was the third crewed undertaking for Blue Origin since their first…
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Blue Origin’s latest suborbital space shot explores the final frontier of merchandising
Former football star and future Blue Origin spaceflier Michael Strahan is given a football to take on his trip during an appearance on Thursday Night Football with Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter) Jeff Bezos’ privately held Blue Origin space venture is starting to look more like the…
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Blue Origin delays its next suborbital space trip because of worries about Texas winds
Spacefliers-to-be Laura Shepard Churchley, Lane Bess and Cameron Bess listen in on a training session at Blue Origin’s Launch Site One. (Blue Origin Photo) Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard’s daughter will have to wait a little longer to take a ride on the suborbital spaceship that’s named after her father. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture…
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Blue Origin’s team wins a $130M share of NASA funding for commercial space stations
An artist’s conception shows the Orbital Reef space station with a single-person spacecraft and Boeing’s Starliner space taxi flying nearby, and Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser space plane docked to a port. (Orbital Reef Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and its partners have won a $130 million award to jump-start the design of their…