Tag: Blue Origin
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Jeff Bezos touts results from Blue Origin spaceship’s test, even with one less chute
A photo taken after last month’s flight test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship highlights the ring of crushable bumpers on the underside of the crew capsule. (Credit: Blue Origin via Jeff Bezos) Last month’s test flight of a Blue Origin rocket ship to space and back was aimed at seeing how safely it could land…
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Blue Origin and SpaceX vets raise cash for Relativity Space, a stealthy startup aiming to build rockets ‘with zero human labor’
Two engineers with experience at Blue Origin and SpaceX have raised almost $10 million for their own rocket startup, Relativity Space, which promises to build orbital rockets “with zero human labor.” The funding rounds are described in two documents filed in May and this month with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The first filing reports that $1.1…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture gets set to pick up the pace for spaceship test flights
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship rises from its launch pad in June. (Credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, plans to accelerate its current once-every-eight-weeks schedule for flight tests of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship, leading up to the first crewed flights next year, one of the company’s…
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Jeff Bezos provides a sneak peek at Blue Origin’s orbital rocket factory in Florida
An artist’s rendering shows Blue Origin’s orbital vehicle production facility, which is under construction in Florida. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today put a spotlight on the construction of a giant rocket production facility in Florida for his Blue Origin space venture – but he also gave a shout-out to the engine production team back in…
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wins Heinlein Prize for space commercialization at Blue Origin
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is the founder of Blue Origin. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, has won the prestigious Heinlein Prize for his efforts to advance space commercialization at another company he founded, Blue Origin. Bezos follows in the footsteps of SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis, who played a lead…
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Blue Origin conducts fourth consecutive test flight of New Shepard
Blue Origin has conducted the fourth test of its New Shepard reusable rocket and Crew Capsule on Sunday in a flight that launched at 10:35 EDT (14:35 UTC). The launch and landing of the rocket’s stage took place at the company’s test site in West Texas – with an added single-parachute out landing test for…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin live-streams its spaceship’s risky test flight
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship rises from its launch pad. (Credit: Blue Origin) Something went wrong during today’s test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship, and the world was able to watch how it was handled online. Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture intentionally disabled one of the three parachutes on the New Shepard capsule,…
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Blue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth time
Updated at 11:15 a.m. EDT (1515 GMT) Sunday after successful flight. Blue Origin’s suborbital space transport system made another test flight Sunday, launching and landing at the company’s West Texas test facility to prove out the crew capsule’s resiliency to a parachute failure. The test flight also marked a change in public relations for the once-secretive…
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After delay, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin gets set for spaceship test flight on Father’s Day
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is the founder of Blue Origin. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says it’s all systems go for a live-streamed Father’s Day launch of Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard suborbital spaceship, after a postponement due to a leaky O-ring seal. Blue Origin, the space venture that Bezos founded in 2000,…
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Jeff Bezos says a big government ‘prize’ could generate more public interest in space exploration
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, right, shares the stage with former astronaut Maj. Gen. Michael Collins. (Via NASA / YouTube) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos thinks the government could offer “a very large prize” as an incentive to parties involved in the modern space race as a way to generate competition and spur public interest. Bezos’…