Tag: New Shepard
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Blue Origin Pauses New Shepard Flights to Prioritize NASA Moon Lander Work
Blue Origin said on Friday it will pause flights of its New Shepard suborbital rocket for at least two years, effectively halting its space tourism operations as it redirects resources toward developing a lunar lander for NASA. The company said it would “pause its New Shepard flights and shift resources to further accelerate development of…
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Blue Origin puts space tourism on hold to bet big on the Moon
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship lifts off for an suborbital trip in April. (Blue Origin Photo) Blue Origin is pausing flights of its New Shepard rocket for at least two years as it shifts resources toward developing vehicles designed to land astronauts on the Moon. In a statement Friday, the Kent, Wash.-based company said…
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Blue Origin Targets Late February New Glenn Launch With AST SpaceMobile Payload
Blue Origin is aiming for a late February launch of its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket, carrying a commercial satellite for AST SpaceMobile into low-Earth orbit, the company said, marking the third flight of the vehicle after more than a decade in development. The mission will be the second time Blue Origin, founded by Amazon founder…
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Blue Origin Completes 38th New Shepard Flight, First Mission of 2026
Blue Origin has successfully completed its 38th New Shepard flight and the first mission of 2026, sending six passengers on a suborbital journey above the internationally recognised boundary of space before returning safely to Earth, the company said on Thursday. The mission, designated NS-38, lifted off from Blue Origin’s launch site in West Texas and…
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Blue Origin to Launch Six Space Tourists on New Shepard Suborbital Flight
Blue Origin is set to launch six space tourists on Thursday as part of its latest suborbital spaceflight, marking another milestone for the company’s New Shepard programme and the commercial space tourism sector. The NS-38 mission is scheduled to lift off from Blue Origin’s launch site in West Texas during a window that opens at…
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Launch Preview: Falcon 9 set to launch two missions from California, Isar to attempt second launch of Spectrum
The upcoming week will see seven rocket launches from six different launch sites across the globe. SpaceX has two Falcon 9 launches scheduled this week; both are Starlink missions launching from SpaceX’s California launch site. Blue Origin is also expected to fly New Shepard’s 17th crewed mission on Thursday. Internationally, China will launch two missions, while…
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Blue Origin breaks the accessibility barrier by sending the first wheelchair user to space
German engineer Michaela Benthaus celebrates after her suborbital space trip. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space. “It was the coolest experience,” said Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a German-born aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency…
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Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 to launch three times, Blue Origin to launch crew
SpaceX leads the launch manifest for the first whole week of October with two Falcon 9 missions. Both of these missions will launch satellites into SpaceX’s internet constellation, Starlink. Meanwhile, Blue Origin joined the launch schedule by launching six people to suborbital space on its New Shepard vehicle, and Orienspace launched for the second time using…
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Blue Origin reportedly plans to expand New Shepard suborbital space fleet and launch facilities
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship lifts off for an suborbital trip in April. (Blue Origin Photo) The executive in charge of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital space program has laid out plans to scale up the operation for weekly launches — and says the company is looking into setting up a second launch site,…
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Launch Roundup: Starlink, NRO, and New Shepard missions
Another busy week of launches has arrived, with SpaceX dominating the launch manifest with four missions for the week. Three of these missions saw new batches of Starlink internet satellites launched into the company’s Starlink constellation, with the fourth mission launching a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Blue Origin finally launched its uncrewed NS-35…