Tag: Blue Origin
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Jeff Bezos plans to live-stream Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship lifts off for a test in January. (Credit: Blue Origin) For his next trick, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos plans to have his Blue Origin space venture send its New Shepard rocket ship into outer space and back with one bum parachute on Friday – and live-stream the whole thing. Allowing live video…
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Details of Orbital ATK’s proposed heavy launcher revealed
A fivei-segment solid rocket motor designed as a strap-on booster for NASA’s Space Launch System undergoes a test firing at Orbital ATK’s Utah plant. The company’s Next-Generation Launcher would use a derivative of the booster with composite casings and only two or four segments. Credit: NASA The launch vehicle Orbital ATK wants to face off…
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Details of Orbital ATK’s proposed heavy launcher revealed
A fivei-segment solid rocket motor designed as a strap-on booster for NASA’s Space Launch System undergoes a test firing at Orbital ATK’s Utah plant. The company’s Next-Generation Launcher would use a derivative of the booster with composite casings and only two or four segments. Credit: NASA The launch vehicle Orbital ATK wants to face off…
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Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin’s next spaceflight will test parachute failure
Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew capsule descends on the end of its parachute system during an uncrewed test flight in April 2015. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos predicts there’ll be a problem with a parachute the next time his Blue Origin venture flies its uncrewed New Shepard spaceship. He’ll make sure of it. Flying…
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Blue Origin and SpaceX revisit their latest rocket landings in must-see videos
A view from the “vent cam” on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital booster shows a West Texas landscape during an April 2 flight, plus a “toasty brown” ring fin at the top of the frame. (Credit: Blue Origin) Will seeing a spaceship land on its feet ever get old? The novelty is still there in…
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Companies offer fresh perspectives on recent rocket landings
In case the the sight of a large rocket plummeting back to Earth, only to be slowed in the last seconds by a puff of engine thrust, hasn’t lost its novelty yet, SpaceX and Blue Origin have released dramatic videos showing their recent powered rocket landings from new angles. SpaceX posted a clip on YouTube…
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Orbital ATK eyes Kennedy Space Center as home of potential new launcher
File photo of the Vehicle Assembly Building with a crawler-transporter in the foreground. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA announced Thursday that Orbital ATK has begun negotiations to lease a disused section of Kennedy Space Center’s iconic Vehicle Assembly Building and an Apollo-era launch platform for the company’s proposed next-generation rocket. The space agency said it selected…
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United Launch Alliance’s CEO weighs Blue Origin’s chances in multibillion-dollar rocket engine race
United Launch Alliance’s president and CEO, Tory Bruno, talks with students during the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – United Launch Alliance’s president and CEO, Tory Bruno, is facing a 2019 deadline from Congress to come up with a made-in-the-USA replacement for the Russian-built rocket engines…
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Interview: Jeff Bezos lays out Blue Origin’s space vision, from tourism to off-planet heavy industry
Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with GeekWire aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle at the 32nd Space Symposium. (Tom Kimmell Photography, Courtesy of the Space Foundation.) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t focused on creating America’s biggest online retailer when he was a boy. But he often says that…
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Jeff Bezos describes future space tours – and explains why he passed up a moon trip
Billionaire Jeff Bezos watches a replay of a New Shepard suborbital test flight with GeekWire’s Alan Boyle at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. (Credit: Tom Kimmell Photography, Courtesy of the Space Foundation) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his chance to go into space in a Russian Soyuz capsule – and not just…