Tag: Blue Origin
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Suborbital test flight moves Blue Origin closer to launching people
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) with new apogee number. The New Shepard booster took off from West Texas at 12:06 p.m. CDT (1:07 p.m. EDT; 1707 GMT). Credit: Blue Origin The privately-developed New Shepard booster, designed and built by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin, took off from a launch…
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Jeff Bezos gets set for Sunday test launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship stands on its pad for a 2016 test flight. (Blue Origin File Photo) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture is targeting the next test flight of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship for Sunday. Word of the launch came today in a tweet. And yes, there will…
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Blue Origin preps for suborbital test flight Sunday
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated April 29 with new launch times. Blue Origin plans its next suborbital test launch Sunday from the company’s sprawling development complex in West Texas, the company’s owner Jeff Bezos announced Friday. The single-stage New Shepard rocket is scheduled for launch at 12:42 p.m. EDT (1642 GMT; 11:42 a.m. CDT), after thunderstorms apparently…
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Blue Origin CEO says next-gen BE-4 rocket engine meets technical requirements
Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine is on display in Colorado Springs. (Blue Origin Photo) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For years, there’s been a big question surrounding the next-generation BE-4 rocket engine that’s being built by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture: Will it be good enough for United Launch Alliance, a crucial prospective customer?…
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SNC and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin show off hardware at Colorado’s Space Symposium
Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Mark Sirangelo get an early look at SNC’s Dream Chaser atmospheric test plane. (SNC Photo) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A year after Blue Origin put its New Shepard rocket booster on public display for the first time, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture has brought its BE-4 rocket…
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Blue Origin’s orbital rocket in the running to receive U.S. military investment
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated April 14 with correction on West Coast launch site and BE-4 investment details. Artist’s concept of the two-stage version of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin submitted a proposal late last year in what’s expected to be a four-way competition for U.S. Air Force funding to support development…
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Bezos, Musk and more: Space billionaires take the spotlight in books and on TV
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (in hat and sunglasses) pops open a bottle of champagne after Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket landing in November 2015. (Credit: Blue Origin) Space is hard: That used to be the excuse for explaining why sending people into space would always be something only governments could do. Now it explains why…
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Do rockets blast away the ozone layer? It’s no biggie today … but watch the skies
The dark exhaust seen streaming from the Merlin engines on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched last October contains black carbon, which chemists say may play a role in ozone-depleting chemistry. (SpaceX via YouTube) Thanks to Blue Origin, SpaceX and other space ventures, the skies could well be filled with rockets in years to…
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Jeff Bezos and National Reconnaissance Office talk about space and innovation
Betty Sapp, director of the National Reconnaissance Office, sits in on a chat with Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and Blue Origin. (NRO via Twitter) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos paid a visit to the National Reconnaissance Office this week — which fits right in with his plan to participate in national security space missions…
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Jeff Bezos shares all 114 seconds of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine test firing
Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine fires up during a ground test. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter) Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine is an essential part of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ vision of getting millions of people living and working in space, so he’s anxious to show it works. But not anxious enough to cut corners. The…