Tag: New Shepard
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture drops fresh hints about how its ‘busy year’ is shaping up
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has lifted the curtain just a bit more on plans for its New Shepard suborbital spaceship and its orbital-class New Glenn rocket. Today Axios quoted Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith as saying that the next uncrewed New Shepard test flight could come as early as this month,…
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Blue Origin’s rocket ship sends postcards, science and art to outer space and back
A drone’s-eye view shows Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship blasting off from its West Texas launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Thousands of postcards, an array of science experiments and a couple of art projects took a suborbital ride to space today on Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship, during a test flight aimed at blazing…
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Blue Origin launches New Shepard on 12th test flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster blasts off Wednesday from West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched a reusable New Shepard rocket Wednesday, boosting an unpiloted capsule on a successful up-and-down flight to space in the 12th test of a spacecraft designed to carry “space tourists”…
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After weather delay, Blue Origin counts down to test flight of suborbital spaceship
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster touches down after a test flight in 2017. (Blue Origin Photo) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is counting down to today’s uncrewed flight test of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship, with a cargo manifest that should warm kids’ hearts for the holidays. The company plans to fly…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard conducts 12th test launch
Blue Origin launched its suborbital New Shepard rocket and crew capsule on an uncrewed test flight from the company’s launch and landing facility in West Texas. The launch, with multiple scientific payloads serving as the passengers for the mission, moved to Wednesday, following poor weather forecasts for the opening launch attempt on Tuesday. The flight…
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Blue Origin preps for suborbital launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9:15 a.m. CST (10:15 a.m. EST; 1515 GMT) after Blue Origin scrubbed Tuesday’s launch attempt. File photo of a New Shepard rocket at Blue Origin’s test site in West Texas before a previous flight. Credit: Blue Origin After poor weather scrubbed a launch attempt Tuesday, Blue Origin plans to launch the 12th…
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NASA picks 25 space technologies for testing by Blue Origin and other companies
Three of the vehicles to be used for testing space technologies are Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship and Masten Space Systems’ lander vehicle. (Virgin Galactic / Blue Origin / Masten via NASA) NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 25 promising space technologies for testing aboard aircraft, high-altitude balloons and suborbital…
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Blue Origin’s CEO says first space trips on New Shepard will cost ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith shows a video of a BE-4 rocket engine firing during the Aerospace Futures Alliance Summit in 2018. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has always shied away from saying how much it will cost to fly to the edge of the final frontier…
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Blue Origin gets ready for next spaceflights but might delay flying people until 2020
A mockup of the crew capsule for Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship goes on display at the Aria Resort Hotel in Las Vegas during June’s re:MARS conference. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is laying plans for two more uncrewed tests of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship, but…
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‘They’re so inspiring’: Jeff Bezos touts Blue Origin’s space postcard campaign for kids
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin, checks out some of the postcards submitted for spaceflight as part of his nonprofit Club for the Future campaign. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter) When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled a mockup of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in May, he also unveiled a more down-to-earth…