Tag: commercial-space
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin delays dramatic rocket test flight due to bad weather
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship stands on its launch pad for a test flight in June. (Credit: Blue Origin file) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has to pass up a historic date for its next flight test, due to unacceptable weather. Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship had been due to…
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Russia’s S7 Group to take over Sea Launch
File photo of the Sea Launch Commander control ship and the Odyssey launch platform with a Zenit 3SL rocket awaiting liftoff. Credit: Sea Launch The owners of a Russian airline hope to revive the Sea Launch program, a major player in the commercial launch business for a decade, after purchasing the company’s ships and ground…
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Russia’s S7 Group to take over Sea Launch
File photo of the Sea Launch Commander control ship and the Odyssey launch platform with a Zenit 3SL rocket awaiting liftoff. Credit: Sea Launch The owners of a Russian airline hope to revive the Sea Launch program, a major player in the commercial launch business for a decade, after purchasing the company’s ships and ground…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sets its sights on trips to Mars and the moon
Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, inspects Blue Origin’s launch facility in West Texas before a test flight in April. (Credit: Blue Origin) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX isn’t the only billionaire-backed company that’s planning to go to Mars: Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is also taking aim at Mars, the moon and…
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Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin’s New Glenn orbital rocket aces wind tunnel tests
This model of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket was put through wind tunnel testing. (Credit: Jeff Bezos via Twitter) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket isn’t due to go into orbit until later this decade, but its design has already been validated by computer simulations and three weeks of wind tunnel testing. That’s the word from…
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India’s PSLV rocket sends BlackSky Global’s first Earth-watching Pathfinder satellite into orbit
India’s PSLV-C35 rocket rises from its launch pad, carrying eight satellites into space. (Credit: ISRO / Doordharshan via YouTube) A satellite that’s meant to blaze a trail for Seattle-based BlackSky Global’s Earth-imaging constellation rose into orbit tonight atop India’s four-stage PSLV-C35 rocket. BlackSky’s Pathfinder 1 was among eight satellites launched from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota at…
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Internal email: Paul Allen’s top space exec Chuck Beames leaving Vulcan Aerospace
Vulcan Aerospace’s Chuck Beames talks about spaceflight during a 2014 panel discussion in Mojave, Calif., marking the 10th anniversary of SpaceShipOne’s flights. (XPRIZE via YouTube) Aerospace veteran Chuck Beames is leaving his post as president of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s spaceflight company, Vulcan Aerospace. Word of Beames’ departure came from Allen in an internal email…
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ULA moves to fill openings in Atlas 5 launch manifest
File photo of an Atlas 5 launch. Credit: NASA/Tony Gray & Kevin O’Connell With U.S. military demand waning in coming years, United Launch Alliance has multiple openings in its Atlas 5 launch manifest in 2017 and 2018 available to commercial customers with as little as three months’ notice, according to company officials. Commercial satellite operators…
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Bezos reveals design of powerful orbital-class launcher
Credit: Blue Origin Tech pioneer and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos said this week his growing launch company, Blue Origin, plans to debut a 30-story satellite booster built and launched from Florida by the end of the decade. In an update emailed to media and Blue Origin followers Monday, Bezos wrote that the launcher is a “very…
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We’re go for liftoff: Commercial Spaceflight Federation sets a new course in Seattle
During SpaceX’s Seattle announcement about an internet satellite network in January 2015, the company’s logo lit up Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center. (GeekWire photo) The Commercial Spaceflight Federation set the stage for new leadership as well as new initiatives during its meeting in Seattle this week, says the industry group’s president. CSF President Eric Stallmer told…