Tag: Jeff Bezos
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin targets 2016 for suborbital research flights with drone spaceships
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship rises from its West Texas launch pad in April for a test flight. (Blue Origin photo) Blue Origin, the space venture backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is reportedly planning to start flying research payloads on its New Shepard suborbital space vehicle as early as the first half of…
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Bezos to locate commercial rocket base in Florida
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos reveals an artist’s concept of the company’s new orbital launcher to be manufactured and launched in Florida. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Blue Origin, the burgeoning, often secretive space company led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, revealed plans Tuesday to build and launch reusable rockets on Florida’s Space Coast, adding another…
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Bezos to locate commercial rocket base in Florida
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos reveals an artist’s concept of the company’s new orbital launcher to be manufactured and launched in Florida. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Blue Origin, the burgeoning, often secretive space company led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, revealed plans Tuesday to build and launch reusable rockets on Florida’s Space Coast, adding another…
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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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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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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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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.…