Tag: Blue Origin
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin targets 2016 for suborbital research flights with drone spaceships
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship rises from its West Texas launch pad in April for a test flight. (Blue Origin photo) Blue Origin, the space venture backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is reportedly planning to start flying research payloads on its New Shepard suborbital space vehicle as early as the first half of…
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ULA selects launch pads for new Vulcan rocket
ULA chief executive Tory Bruno tweeted this image illustrating the Vulcan rocket’s evolution from the Atlas rocket family. The Vulcan will use the Atlas 5’s current launch pads in Florida and California, according to a senior ULA official. Credit: ULA United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan rocket will lift off from the company’s existing Atlas 5…
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Canaveral and KSC pads: New designs for space access
For the past several years, the historic launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, have undergone sweeping changes as the conclusion of the Space Shuttle program brought a new vision to the spaceport. Those changes have now spread across the lagoon to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where pad modifications are underway for…
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Former astronaut: NASA ‘certainly not dead, but they are lost at the moment’
Former astronaut Ed Lu (right) at the 2015 GeekWire Summit. Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu, who logged more than 206 days in space over his career, said there are a lot of interesting things going on in space exploration right now — they’re just not coming from the organization you would expect. “It [NASA] is…
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Boeing’s new CEO sees Amazon and Facebook as competitors (and potential partners)
Boeing President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg addresses the SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress in Seattle on Tuesday. (Credit: Alan Boyle for GeekWire) Two months into his job as the Boeing Co.’s president and CEO, Dennis Muilenburg says Amazon and Facebook are emerging as competitors in the aerospace industry, due to their plans to develop drones for…
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Boeing rejects bid to buy ULA as engine race heats up
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Credit: ULA Boeing said Wednesday it has turned down an offer from Aerojet Rocketdyne to buy United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that operates the Atlas and Delta rocket fleets. The decision keeps ULA’s plan to select a…
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Boeing rejects bid to buy ULA as engine race heats up
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Credit: ULA Boeing said Wednesday it has turned down an offer from Aerojet Rocketdyne to buy United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that operates the Atlas and Delta rocket fleets. The decision keeps ULA’s plan to select a…
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Bezos to locate commercial rocket base in Florida
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos reveals an artist’s concept of the company’s new orbital launcher to be manufactured and launched in Florida. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Blue Origin, the burgeoning, often secretive space company led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, revealed plans Tuesday to build and launch reusable rockets on Florida’s Space Coast, adding another…
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Bezos to locate commercial rocket base in Florida
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos reveals an artist’s concept of the company’s new orbital launcher to be manufactured and launched in Florida. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Blue Origin, the burgeoning, often secretive space company led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, revealed plans Tuesday to build and launch reusable rockets on Florida’s Space Coast, adding another…
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Blue Origin take over LC-36 at the Cape – prepare for orbital launches
Blue Origin is setting up base on the Space Coast after announcing an agreement to take over the historic Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at Cape Canaveral. The announcement will result in over 300 jobs being created as Blue Origin set up its home base for production and launches – set to included its new orbital…