Tag: Jeff Bezos
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Jeff Bezos does a deep dive into bearings in Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine update
The BE-4 rocket engine’s powerpack is installed on a stand at Blue Origin’s West Texas proving ground for startup transient testing. (Blue Origin Photo) What’s the difference between ball bearings and hydrostatic bearings? You should have more of an inkling after checking out Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ latest update on the development of Blue Origin’s…
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Jeff Bezos adds OneWeb satellite venture to Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch manifest
OneWeb executive chairman Greg Wyler and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos shake hands on a deal for satellite launches on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. WASHINGTON, D.C. – A day after announcing the first launch customer for Blue Origin’s yet-to-be-built New Glenn rocket, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos introduced the second customer: OneWeb, a venture that aims…
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Blue Origin details new rocket’s capabilities, signs first orbital customer
Updated March 9 with OneWeb agreement. Artist’s concept of the New Glenn rocket. Credit: Blue Origin Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos revealed new details of his space company’s reusable orbital-class booster Tuesday, releasing an animation illustrating the rocket’s liftoff from Cape Canaveral and announcing a contract with Eutelsat to put a commercial communications satellite on one of…
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Jeff Bezos introduces Eutelsat as Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket customer
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon as well as the Blue Origin space venture, takes the stage with Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos revealed satellite operator Eutelsat as the first paying customer for his Blue Origin space venture’s New Glenn orbital rocket, and showed off a new…
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One giant leap: Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s shiny new BE-4 rocket engine
Blue Origin employees move the BE-4 engine through the company’s production facility in Kent, Wash. (Blue Origin Photo via Jeff Bezos / Twitter) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is providing a sneak peek at his Blue Origin space venture’s BE-4 rocket engine, which could someday help power missions to the moon. Today’s preview tweets comes a…
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Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin propose ‘Amazon-like’ delivery to the moon in 2020
Jeff Bezos shows off the concept for Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch system during a 2015 news conference in Florida. The rocket could reportedly be adapted for moon missions. (Blue Origin Photo) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has reportedly proposed sending a robotic lander to the moon’s south polar region by 2020,…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has plans for big expansion of Seattle-area HQ
Hardware is spread across the New Shepard assembly area. (Credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has out-of-this-world ambitions – with expansion plans to match. Permit filings at the city of Kent, Wash., reveal plans for a 236,000-square-foot warehouse complex and 102,900 square feet of office space, southwest of Blue Origin’s current 300,000-square-foot…
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Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin welcome Buzz Aldrin – and win a prestigious space trophy
Jeff Bezos, Buzz Aldrin and the moonwalker’s son, Andrew Aldrin, are front and center in this picture taken at Blue Origin’s headquarters in Kent, Wash. Buzz Aldrin’s longtime assistant, Christina Korp, is to the right and behind Andrew Aldrin. (Blue Origin Photo via Twitter) It’s been a good week for Blue Origin, Amazon billionaire Jeff…
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Here’s what it’ll be like to ride on Jeff Bezos’ suborbital Blue Origin spaceship
An artist’s conception shows passengers looking through one of the windows in Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship. (Blue Origin Illustration) The folks who ride New Shepard, the suborbital spaceship being tested by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be given barf bags to tuck into their flight suits. But they almost certainly won’t…
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Jeff Bezos gives a geeky boost to Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine boost pump
An employee works on the BE-4 Ox Boost Pump prior to engine installation. (Blue Origin Photo via Jeff Bezos) And now for something completely different from Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos: His latest mass email isn’t about jobs, or Donald Trump, or his new D.C. digs. It’s about a rocket engine boost pump. Bezos’ Blue Origin…