Tag: Blue Origin
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Blue Origin launches same New Shepard spacecraft for third time
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin launched its reusable New Shepard suborbital spacecraft on its third test flight Saturday, successfully boosting an unpiloted capsule out of the discernible atmosphere for a few minutes of weightlessness before a parachute descent to the company’s West Texas launch site. The New Shepard booster, meanwhile, plunged…
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Video: Jeff Bezos shares drone’s-eye view of Blue Origin spaceship’s flight
A view from above shows Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship rising from its West Texas launch pad. (Credit: Blue Origin) Saturday’s test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship marked lots of milestones, including the first time a drone captured video of its launch from above. Those kinds of views have long been provided by SpaceX,…
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New Shepard hat trick for Blue Origin
Blue Origin conducted another test flight of its New Shepard rocket at the weekend, continuing a test program aimed at its suborbital space tourism goals. Marked by a successful – and sporty – landing at the company’s West Texas site, this booster has now launched and landed three times since its debut in November. The…
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Jeff Bezos live-tweets ‘flawless’ test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship
Blue Origin’s New Shepard fires its BE-4 rocket engine for a soft vertical landing at the end of the April 2 flight. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos served as launch commentator today for a risky but successful third flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship to space and back. He even worked…
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Jeff Bezos lets the world know about Blue Origin’s craziest spaceship test flight yet
Workers prepare Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship for its next test flight. (Credit: Jeff Bezos via Twitter) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin rocket venture will put its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to its sternest test to date: a flight that involves a quick restart of the craft’s rocket engine just six seconds…
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Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin highlight small steps toward giant space leaps
Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, known as VSS Unity, is brought out from its hangar in Mojave, Calif. A portion of the plane’s WhiteKnightTwo mothership can be seen at the right edge of the frame. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) In the past few weeks, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space venture and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin…
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Legislation aimed at boosting Washington state’s space industry fizzles out
Engineers work on a spaceship crew capsule at Blue Origin’s production facility in Kent, Wash. (Credit: Blue Origin) Two measures that would have lent a hand to Washington state’s fledgling space industry have been stalled in committee and aren’t likely to win approval during the state Legislature’s current session, the bills’ sponsor said today. “We’re having such a…
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Jeff Bezos lifts curtain on Blue Origin rocket factory, lays out grand plan for space travel that spans hundreds of years
Billionaire Jeff Bezos stands beside the copper nozzle for a BE-4 rocket engine at Blue Origin’s production facility in Kent, Wash., while journalists snap pictures. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) KENT, Wash. – For the first time, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos guided a pack of journalists around his Blue Origin rocket factory today and showed off hardware…
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ULA’s candidates to replace RD-180 engine win Air Force funding
File photo of a hotfire test using components of Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine. Credit: Blue Origin The Pentagon has awarded at least $162 million in contracts to Aerojet Rocketdyne and United Launch Alliance for development work on the AR1 and BE-4 rocket engines, candidates to power the first stage of a next-generation rocket and replace…
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Blue Origin, ULA and Aerojet win Air Force contracts for U.S.-made rocket engines
Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine goes through staged combustion testing. (Credit: ULA) Blue Origin, the rocket venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is among the beneficiaries in a set of Air Force contracts aimed at developing U.S.-made replacements for the Russian-made engines that currently power many of America’s space missions. One of the contracts announced…