{"id":17775,"date":"2020-03-03T23:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-venture-drops-fresh-hints-about-how-its-busy-year-is-shaping-up\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T23:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:23:42","slug":"jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-venture-drops-fresh-hints-about-how-its-busy-year-is-shaping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-venture-drops-fresh-hints-about-how-its-busy-year-is-shaping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture drops fresh hints about how its \u2018busy year\u2019 is shaping up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Inside look at the New Glenn 7 meter fairing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaEYpzSu8Ck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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, and that there\u2019ll be \u201cthree or more flights before we go fly people.\u201d Smith said the current plan is to fly the first people later this year, \u201cbut there\u2019s a lot of work to be done.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Also today, Blue Origin released a couple of video clips showing half of New Glenn\u2019s 7-meter-wide (23-foot-wide) carbon composite nose cone, or fairing, on the floor of the company\u2019s massive Florida factory. Jarrett Jones, senior vice president for the New Glenn program, said the fairing is big enough to hold an entire New Shepard spaceship.<\/li>\n<li>Blue Origin said 2020 is shaping up to be a \u201cbusy year.\u201d New Glenn\u2019s BE-4 engine is due to enter production in Alabama later this year, and the rocket is scheduled to have its maiden launch in Florida next year. As for New Shepard, the first fliers are expected to be Blue Origin test subjects. The company hasn\u2019t announced the price for suborbital space trips, other than to say the first tickets are likely to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4459,509,510,1250],"class_list":["post-17775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-be-4-rocket-engine","tag-blue-origin","tag-new-glenn","tag-new-shepard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}