Tag: Blue Origin
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Get a dummy’s-eye view of a suborbital ride on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spaceship
An instrumented test dummy, nicknamed “Mannequin Skywalker,” sits next to one of the huge windows in the New Shepard crew capsule. (Blue Origin Photo) What will people experience when they rocket to the edge of space on the New Shepard suborbital spaceship that’s currently being tested by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture? An 11-minute video, recorded…
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Blue Origin flies Mannequin Skywalker during successful New Shepard test
Blue Origin returned to its impressive New Shepard test flight program with a new phase of upgrades on the path towards flying paying customers into suborbit. The latest test launch took place on Tuesday, with a brand new rocket and an upgraded crew capsule that closer resembles the spacecraft that will launch passengers. On board…
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Photos: Upgraded New Shepard booster flies from West Texas
Blue Origin’s Crew Capsule 2.0 carried a crash test dummy on Tuesday’s flight. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin’s third New Shepard suborbital booster lifted off on its first brief up-and-down test flight Tuesday, soaring to an altitude of 322,000 feet over West Texas to prove out the rocket and its automated crew capsule, which flew…
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Blue Origin launches New Shepard test flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, launched a reusable New Shepard sub-orbital rocket from the company’s west Texas launch site Tuesday, boosting an unpiloted crew capsule out of the dense lower atmosphere for a brief foray into space before a parachute descent to Earth. The booster,…
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Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin gives test dummy ‘a great ride’ on New Shepard suborbital spaceship
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster touches down in Texas after a successful test. (Blue Origin Photo) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his space venture, Blue Origin, launched the latest version of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship today for the company’s first test flight in 14 months, with an instrumented test dummy seated aboard. “He had…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture gives notice for spaceship flight test this week
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture is getting ready for launch. (Blue Origin Photo) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has alerted the Federal Aviation Administration that it’s planning to put a brand-new New Shepard rocket ship through an uncrewed flight test at its West Texas spaceport this week.…
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Blue Origin could fly new suborbital vehicle this week
File photo of a New Shepard launch from Blue Origin’s West Texas test site. Credit: Blue Origin An airspace restriction over West Texas posted on the Federal Aviation Administration’s website and filed by Blue Origin suggests the company founded by Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos could launch its upgraded reusable New Shepard suborbital booster for the first…
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of spaceflight? Jeff Bezos links Blue Origin to saving Earth
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (in hat and sunglasses) pops open a bottle of champagne after Blue Origin’s first New Shepard rocket landing in November 2015. (Blue Origin Photo) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ vision for his Blue Origin rocket venture is to have millions of people living and working in space — but why? During this month’s…
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Blue Origin remains on course for 2020 debut of New Glenn heavy lift rocket
With their large production facility on Merritt Island nearing completion of its initial build, construction of their launch pad and testing facilities proceeding well, and a successful first firing of their BE-4 engine, Blue Origin is on track to meet the company’s stated goal of debuting their New Glenn heavy lift launch vehicle sometime in…
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World’s largest methane-fueled rocket engine test-fired by Blue Origin
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT) with ULA statement. First hotfire of our BE-4 engine is a success #GradatimFerociter pic.twitter.com/xuotdzfDjF — Blue Origin (@blueorigin) October 19, 2017 Blue Origin has conducted the first hotfire test of its BE-4 rocket engine in West Texas, a powerplant fueled by liquified natural gas and liquid oxygen…