Tag: Blue Origin
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Blue Origin’s sub-orbital ‘New Shepard’ poised for test flights
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin’s BE-3 engine on a test stand at the company’s West Texas facility. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin, the historically secretive rocket company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, has completed development of a new hydrogen-fueled engine and plans to begin unmanned test flights of its…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin dealt setback in patent dispute with SpaceX over rocket landings
The “autonomous spaceport drone ship” that SpaceX built to recover the Falcon 9 first stage. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a key preliminary ruling in its dispute with Blue Origin over a patent received by the Jeff Bezos-backed commercial space venture covering the landing of rockets at sea. Elon Musk announces the opening of SpaceX’s Seattle-area engineering office.…
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FAA opens way for companies to stake claims to lunar rights
Photo via YouTube/Moon trailer Do we have the right to reserve rights to the moon? Apparently so. At least that’s the message the U.S. government appears to be sending. In an exclusive report by Reuters, “U.S. companies can stake claims to lunar territory through an existing licensing process for space launches.” The Federal Aviation Administration, in a “previously…
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SpaceX rocket crash-lands on drone ship in ambitious recovery attempt
The “autonomous spaceport drone ship” that SpaceX built to recover the Falcon 9 first stage. SpaceX was unsuccessful in its inaugural attempt to land the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket softly on a barge in the ocean, the company reported overnight. The company’s founder, Elon Musk, says the hard landing of the unmanned first…
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NASA chooses SpaceX for launchpad lease, passing over Bezos-backed Blue Origin
In a victory for Elon Musk and a blow to Jeff Bezos, NASA said today that it has entered negotiations with SpaceX to hammer out an agreement that would allow the spaceflight company to lease the historic Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The news comes just one day after the Government Accountability Office ruled…
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Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture now employs 300 people, gearing up for commercial operations
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos talks about his space venture Blue Origin at the grand opening of the Bezos Center of Innovation at The Museum of History & Industry in Seattle. Blue Origin, the Seattle-based space venture backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has been quietly working for the past 13 years on development and testing of…
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Washington teen wins NASA “Why Space Matters to the Future” video contest
Addie Augsburger’s video won first place. There’s just something about Washington teenagers and their ability to talk about space exploration creatively. The Coalition for Space Exploration and NASA just announced the winners of their “Why Space Matters to the Future” national video contest and two Washington teens won first and second place. The contest asked…
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Veteran NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick joins Blue Origin as human integration architect
Veteran astronaut Nicholas Patrick is joining Blue Origin. Photo courtesy of NASA. Nicholas Patrick, the fifth British astronaut to go to space and a NASA veteran, has joined the Blue Origin team to provide his expertise as a human integration architect. Blue Origin, the often-secretive commercial space venture started by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is based…
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Blue Origin capsule successfully pad aborts via pusher-escape system
Although no longer a leading contender to fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), Blue Origin are successfully concluding their Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev-2) milestones, marked by a firing of their BE-3 engine and the visually dramatic sight of their capsule conducting a pad abort test via their unique pusher-escape motor…
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SpaceX and beyond: Latest from the new space race
The docking of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule with the International Space Station is a landmark for the private space industry, marking the first time a commercial spacecraft has flown a mission to the International Space Station, to deliver supplies. The SpaceX Falcon 9 carries the Dragon capsule to orbit, launching last week from Cape Canaveral. (Credit:…