Tag: Jeff Bezos
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Jeff Bezos lets the world know about Blue Origin’s craziest spaceship test flight yet
Workers prepare Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship for its next test flight. (Credit: Jeff Bezos via Twitter) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin rocket venture will put its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to its sternest test to date: a flight that involves a quick restart of the craft’s rocket engine just six seconds…
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Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin highlight small steps toward giant space leaps
Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, known as VSS Unity, is brought out from its hangar in Mojave, Calif. A portion of the plane’s WhiteKnightTwo mothership can be seen at the right edge of the frame. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) In the past few weeks, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space venture and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin…
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Legislation aimed at boosting Washington state’s space industry fizzles out
Engineers work on a spaceship crew capsule at Blue Origin’s production facility in Kent, Wash. (Credit: Blue Origin) Two measures that would have lent a hand to Washington state’s fledgling space industry have been stalled in committee and aren’t likely to win approval during the state Legislature’s current session, the bills’ sponsor said today. “We’re having such a…
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Jeff Bezos lifts curtain on Blue Origin rocket factory, lays out grand plan for space travel that spans hundreds of years
Billionaire Jeff Bezos stands beside the copper nozzle for a BE-4 rocket engine at Blue Origin’s production facility in Kent, Wash., while journalists snap pictures. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) KENT, Wash. – For the first time, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos guided a pack of journalists around his Blue Origin rocket factory today and showed off hardware…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture provides glimpses of its road ahead
Blue Origin’s New Shepard prototype spaceship blasts off in January. (Credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is lifting the curtain just a bit on its future plans for rocket engines and spaceflights. One of the revelations relates to progress on its methane-fueled BE-4 rocket engine, which is on…
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Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard booster flies again
Two months after it flew into space and landed smoothly, Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard booster made the trip again Friday, proving it can be reused for future space tourism jaunts and laying the groundwork for a future commercial satellite launcher, the company said. The hydrogen-fueled single stage rocket took off and landed at a…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin does it again: Used rocket goes into space and lands intact
Blue Origin’s New Shepard propulsion module fires its rocket engines for a soft landing. It marked the second trip to space and touchdown for the same prototype vehicle. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on another flight test to outer-space altitudes today, and brought…
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Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson ribs space billionaires amid Blue Origin buzz
Richard Branson says he’s in a friendly rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture may have done another flight test, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making waves with its rocket progress – but don’t forget about Richard Branson. “Our spaceship comes back and lands on wheels. Theirs…
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Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (in hat and sunglasses) pops open a bottle of champagne after Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket landing in November. (Credit: Blue Origin) When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over whether Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and fellow billionaire…
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Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos: Watch this hilarious animated recap of their great space race
Image via Taiwanese Animators History was made earlier this week when Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket, and then successfully returned it to its Florida landing pad. The successful mission set off yet another round of Twitter barbs in the space rivalry between Musk and Amazon.com and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, who…