Tag: New Shepard
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Blue Origin reportedly has just a few test flights to go before people take space trips
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith shows a video of a BE-4 rocket engine firing during the Aerospace Futures Alliance Summit in October 2018. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith has told Axios that just a few test flights remain before the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos starts putting…
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Racer, rocketeer … and tour guide? Jimmy Shane shows off Blue Origin’s crew capsule at re:MARS
A mockup of the crew capsule for Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship is laid out beneath the sparkling lights of the Aria Resort Hotel in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) LAS VEGAS — One of the big attractions at this week’s Amazon re:MARS conference is a mockup of the crew capsule for Blue…
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Blue Origin sends dozens of payloads to space — and looks ahead to sending people
An overhead view shows Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship lifting off in West Texas. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, today sent dozens of science experiments and other payloads to space and back on its suborbital New Shepard rocket ship. Today’s liftoff marked the 11th…
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Blue Origin ‘one step closer’ to human flights after successful suborbital launch
This image from Blue Origin’s webcast of Thursday’s mission shows the New Shepard’s capsule just before touchdown in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Taking another step toward flying space tourists to the edge of space, Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin again flew its New Shepard suborbital booster Thursday with a package of microgravity research…
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New Shepard conducts science mission ahead of upcoming passenger flights
For the 11th time, Blue Origin launched their suborbital New Shepard rocket and crew capsule on an uncrewed test flight from the company’s West Texas launch and landing facility. The mission will carry 38 scientific experiments, including nine procured through NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, for a few minutes of microgravity free flight. With Blue Origin’s…
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Blue Origin readies reusable suborbital launcher for another flight
File photo of a New Shepard booster landing after a previous mission. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin teams in West Texas are preparing for another launch of the company’s reusable New Shepard suborbital rocket Thursday to loft dozens of microgravity research payloads to the edge of space. The single-stage rocket is set for liftoff from…
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Watch Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture launch suborbital science extravaganza
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lands itself at the end of a test flight in July 2018. (Blue Origin Photo) Blue Origin, the private space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, says it’s sending up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on its next test flight as early as Thursday morning with 38 payloads on…
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OK Go music group teams up with Blue Origin on zero-G space art contest for kids
OK Go’s zero-gravity art contest follows up on a music video that the group performed during a zero-gravity airplane flight. (OK Go Photo) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is joining forces with the music-video masters at OK Go to give students a chance to send art experiments into outer space on Blue…
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Blue Origin conducts New Shepard’s 10th test flight
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket conducted its tenth test flight on Wednesday – marking another step towards launching paying customers into suborbital space. The launch at Blue Origin’s test site in West Texas took place at 15:05 UTC following a delay from late in 2018 due to an issue with ground equipment and unacceptable weather.…
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New Shepard launches NASA experiments to space, aims for human flights this year
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket lifts off from West Texas on Wednesday. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin, the commercial space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched a package of NASA experiments to the edge of space Wednesday from West Texas with a suborbital New Shepard booster, then successfully recovered the reusable rocket and…