Tag: Blue Origin
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NASA Selects Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX Human Landers for Artemis
NASA has selected three companies to develop Human Landing Systems (HLS) to support future crewed moon landings. Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX will develop their designs over a ten month period, before a down-selection to one or two vehicles that will fly uncrewed demonstration missions. The Artemis III mission will then utilize one of these…
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Blue Origin uses 3-D printers to make visors for medical face shields as well as rocket parts
A worker at Blue Origin’s production facility in Kent, Wash., gets 3-D printed face shield visors ready for shipping. (Blue Origin via Twitter) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture isn’t just turning out parts for rocket ships nowadays: It’s also using 25 of its additive manufacturing machines to turn out 3-D printed visors…
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Space companies rally to supply medical equipment amid pandemic
A “bridge ventilator” designed by Virgin Orbit. Credit: Virgin Orbit While production of rockets and satellites continues across much of the space industry amid the coronavirus pandemic, engineers at several space companies — including SpaceX, Virgin Orbit and Blue Origin — have started working on medical devices and protective equipment in response to shortages in…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says three workers in Kent have tested positive for coronavirus
Engineers work on the New Shepard suborbital spaceship’s crew capsule at Blue Origin’s production facility in Kent, Wash. (Credit: Blue Origin) Three employees at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture have tested positive for coronavirus and are now in quarantine, a spokeswoman for the company says. One case came to light on Friday,…
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Amid ‘rapidly evolving’ COVID-19 outbreak, Blue Origin’s launch plans spark debate
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship sits on its launch pad in advance of a test flight in 2018. (Blue Origin Photo) Discussions about future launch plans for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture have reportedly generated internal acrimony due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak — and that, in turn, has generated…
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Calling all kids: Send Blue Origin a space postcard while you’re stuck at home
Blue Origin employees who volunteer for the Club for the Future sort postcards. (Blue Origin Photo) Are you looking for educational activities to occupy the kids while you’re cooped up due to the coronavirus outbreak? One option is to make space postcards for the Club for the Future, an educational campaign created by Amazon CEO…
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NASA to consider WFIRST launch options after mission passes key review
Artist’s illustration of the WFIRST spacecraft. Credit: NASA NASA expects to select a launch vehicle next year to carry the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope — a multibillion-dollar flagship astrophysics observatory targeted for cancellation by the Trump administration — into space in 2025 after the mission passed a key review last month, agency officials said.…
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Blue Origin provides a sneak peek at its shiny new mission control room in Florida
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture hasn’t yet completed its first New Glenn rocket, but it has completed a glittering control room in Florida for New Glenn’s missions to orbit. Blue Origin showed off the mission control room, filled with monitors and blue mood lighting, in a video posted to Twitter today. It’s…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture drops fresh hints about how its ‘busy year’ is shaping up
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has lifted the curtain just a bit more on plans for its New Shepard suborbital spaceship and its orbital-class New Glenn rocket. Today Axios quoted Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith as saying that the next uncrewed New Shepard test flight could come as early as this month,…
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Blue Origin lays out ambitious plan for rocket engine production as it opens Alabama factory
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith wields a scissors alongside other VIPs during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the company’s rocket engine factory in Huntsville, Ala. (Blue Origin Photo) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture opened the doors of its engine factory in America’s Rocket City today, and promised that next-generation BE-4 engines would be…