Tag: Blue Origin
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Jeff Bezos confirms big Blue Origin space facility in Florida, unveils new rocket
Jeff Bezos announces Blue Origin’s plans in Florida this morning. (Via webcast.) Updated throughout with details of announcement. Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Jeff Bezos, confirmed plans this morning to build a $200 million space launch and manufacturing facility on Florida’s Space Coast, creating a new base of operations for the company’s orbital space ambitions.…
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Blue Origin’s rocket-landing patent canceled in victory for SpaceX
The “autonomous spaceport drone ship” that SpaceX built to recover the Falcon 9 first stage. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has capitulated to Elon Musk’s SpaceX in a dispute over a Blue Origin patent covering the landing of rockets at sea. In an order made public today, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board granted…
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Jeff Bezos set to announce big news about Blue Origin’s Florida launch plans
Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, inspects Blue Origin’s launch facility in West Texas before a test flight in April. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is heading to Cape Canaveral next month to make a “significant announcement regarding the emerging commercial launch industry” — most likely about plans for his Blue Origin space venture to build…
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NTSB’s SpaceShipTwo findings put more pressure on FAA in commercial space
A video screengrab shows SpaceShipTwo’s wings in their “feathered” position moments before the rocket plane’s breakup on Oct. 31, 2014. (Credit: Virgin Galactic / NTSB) The recommendations coming out of a federal investigation of last October’s fatal SpaceShipTwo breakup are likely to add to the challenges facing the commercial spaceflight industry – but they could also provide…
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Space engineer Mark Russell has a plan to harvest energy from the earth using rockets
“Now is a good time to chat, I’m not underground.” That’s the first thing Mark Russell tells me when I finally reach him on the phone. But I suppose that goes with the territory when you are trying to dig really deep holes. Russell is the CEO of HyperSciences, a Spokane-based company that is trying to use…
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Bezos’ Blue Origin starts spaceflight signups for its New Shepard capsule
Why stop with asking for an invitation for an Amazon Echo, or a reservation for the new Tesla Powerwall, when you can get in line for space? Blue Origin, the space venture backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has launched a new webpage letting anyone, as Bezos writes, get “early notification when we’re ready to accept…
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Bezos’ Blue Origin completes first test flight of ‘New Shepard’ spacecraft
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin, a rocket engine and spacecraft development company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, carried out an unpiloted maiden test flight of the company’s New Shepard sub-orbital launch vehicle Wednesday, the historically secretive company revealed early Thursday. A dramatic video posted on the company’s website showed…
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Blue Origin spaceship makes first test flight, with founder Jeff Bezos in the control room
Jeff Bezos in the control room, as seen in a Blue Origin video. Blue Origin, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ space venture, launched the first developmental test flight of its New Shepard spacecraft in West Texas on Thursday. Bezos himself was on hand for the occasion, making a cameo appearance in this video, first in the…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard conducts first test flight
Blue Origin has conducted a test flight of its New Shepard suborbital system. Aimed at the space tourism market, the BE-3 engine-driven rocket lofted its capsule to Mach 3 and its planned test altitude of 307,000 feet. Attempts to recover the booster – which is designed to be reusable – were unsuccessful, although tweaks to the hydraulic…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard conducts first test flight
Blue Origin has conducted a test flight of its New Shepard suborbital system. Aimed at the space tourism market, the BE-3 engine-driven rocket lofted its capsule to Mach 3 and its planned test altitude of 307,000 feet. Attempts to recover the booster – which is designed to be reusable – were unsuccessful, although tweaks to the hydraulic…