Tag: Blue Origin
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‘One hell of a booster’: Blue Origin’s spaceship totally survives what should have been a fiery flight
The payload capsule on Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship lights up its in-flight escape rocket motor and separates from the booster below. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is a happy man today, now that the wildest test flight ever conducted by his Blue Origin space venture has ended in the safe landing of an empty crew capsule…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin delays dramatic rocket test flight due to bad weather
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship stands on its launch pad for a test flight in June. (Credit: Blue Origin file) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has to pass up a historic date for its next flight test, due to unacceptable weather. Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship had been due to…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sets its sights on trips to Mars and the moon
Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, inspects Blue Origin’s launch facility in West Texas before a test flight in April. (Credit: Blue Origin) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX isn’t the only billionaire-backed company that’s planning to go to Mars: Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is also taking aim at Mars, the moon and…
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Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin’s New Glenn orbital rocket aces wind tunnel tests
This model of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket was put through wind tunnel testing. (Credit: Jeff Bezos via Twitter) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket isn’t due to go into orbit until later this decade, but its design has already been validated by computer simulations and three weeks of wind tunnel testing. That’s the word from…
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For Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos gets Heinlein Prize and a sword – then gives away $250K
Jeff Bezos (center) shows off a sword that serves as part of the Heinlein Prize, as XPRIZE co-founder Peter Diamandis (right) takes the selfie and Art Dula (left), trustee for the Heinlein Prize Trust, looks on. (Credit: Peter Diamandis via Twitter) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos received one of the spaceflight community’s richest honors, the Heinlein…
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Bezos reveals design of powerful orbital-class launcher
Credit: Blue Origin Tech pioneer and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos said this week his growing launch company, Blue Origin, plans to debut a 30-story satellite booster built and launched from Florida by the end of the decade. In an update emailed to media and Blue Origin followers Monday, Bezos wrote that the launcher is a “very…
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Blue Origin introduce the New Glenn orbital LV
Years in the making, but finally revealed on Monday, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has been shown for the first time via its founder Jeff Bezos. Arriving in two variants, the new – and surprisingly powerful – orbital rocket is scheduled to debut from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-36 by the end of the decade. Like its…
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Jeff Bezos says next Blue Origin spaceship test should destroy the booster rocket
An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s crew capsule firing its escape rocket motor. (Credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has flown the same rocket booster to outer space and back four times over the past year – but the fifth trip, planned for October, will be that booster’s…
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Concrete poured for Blue Origin’s orbital space complex in Florida
Workers pour concrete at the site of Blue Origin’s rocket factory in Florida. (Credit: Space Florida) Work is progressing on the facility in Florida where Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to build its orbital spaceships. Bezos called attention to the groundbreaking milestone for the 750,000-square-foot rocket factory in June. Today, Space Florida, the state…
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‘Just DO IT!’ Blue Origin software engineers talk about Jeff Bezos’ space venture on Reddit
Blue Origin software engineers get their picture taken for a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” chat session. (Credit: Blue Origin via Imgur) Creating a commercial space effort is clearly not a 9-to-5 job: Software engineers from Blue Origin, the space venture that Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos created, reinforced that view today during an “Ask Me Anything”…