Tag: Blue Origin
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin says BE-4 rocket test goes awry, but tests will resume soon
In a photo from March 2017, the BE-4 rocket engine’s powerpack is installed on a stand at Blue Origin’s West Texas proving ground for start transient testing. (Blue Origin Photo) In a rare update, the Blue Origin space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos reported that it lost a set of powerpack test hardware…
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Jeff Bezos fuels Blue Origin space venture with $941 million Amazon stock sale
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is sure to benefit from his record-high $941 million selloff of Amazon shares. The sale, executed this week and reported in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, represents just a thin slice of the Amazon founder’s estimated $80 billion net worth. But it meshes with his comment last…
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Blue Origin and other space companies urge Congress to boost FAA’s funding
Blue Origin’s New Shepard prototype spaceship blasts off in January 2016. (Blue Origin Photo) When senators asked executives from Blue Origin and other commercial space ventures what they could do to help them at a Senate hearing today, they received an unusual reply: Give more money to the regulators at the Federal Aviation Administration. “”It may…
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ULA chief says Blue Origin in driver’s seat for Vulcan engine deal
The first fully-assembled BE-4 engine. Credit: Blue Origin A full-scale BE-4 engine developed by Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, is installed on a test stand in West Texas for a series of hotfire tests that United Launch Alliance will closely examine before settling on the reusable methane-fueled engine for its…
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Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos: ‘The only thing that’s disruptive is customer adoption’
Jeff Bezos discusses Blue Origin New Shepard booster rocket & crew capsule at the Space Symposium. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Amazon often gets the blame — or credit, depending on your perspective — for upending traditional industries, particularly in the brick-and-mortar retail sector. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, offered his view on this issue when answering…
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Video: Blue Origin’s president points out upgrades on New Shepard spaceship
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos discusses Blue Origin New Shepard booster rocket and crew capsule, on display at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship performed beautifully during five trips to space and back, but the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff…
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Blue Origin’s staying power bankrolled by Jeff Bezos’s multibillion-dollar investment
Jeff Bezos speaks at the 33rd Space Symposium on April 5. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, now the second-richest person in the world, is funding his space company’s lofty ambitions $1 billion per year, driving Blue Origin closer to taking paying passengers to the edge of space and fielding a reusable satellite launcher…
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Photos: Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster on display
Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Scarred from five trips to the edge of space and back, Blue Origin’s privately-developed New Shepard rocket was on vertical display this week at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. The single-stage rocket is now retired and will eventually go into a museum after a traveling “road show” around the…
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How Jeff Bezos is using Amazon’s success to fuel Blue Origin’s space effort, a billion dollars at a time
Blue Origin’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, peers out the window of a New Shepard crew capsule mock-up. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has long said that he’s using his personal fortune to fund his Blue Origin space venture, and today he hinted at just how many billions…
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Video: Here’s what it’s like to sit inside Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship
GeekWire’s Alan Boyle sits in one of the padded seats inside a mock-up of the crew capsule for Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship. The door of the capsule’s hatch is just to the right of Boyle’s head. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The seats in Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship are like a dentist’s chair…