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Blue Origin has conducted the first hot-fire static test of the fully integrated second stage of the company’s New Glenn orbital rocket. The 15-second test took place on September 23, 2024 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Continue R… Continue reading Watch: Second stage of New Glenn rocket completes hot-fire test
Blue Origin has conducted the first hot-fire static test of the fully integrated second stage of the company’s New Glenn orbital rocket. The 15-second test took place on September 23, 2024 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Continue R… Continue reading Watch: Second stage of New Glenn rocket completes hot-fire test
Another day, another crop of newly minted minimal astronauts, as Blue Origin’s New Shepard made a successful suborbital flight this week. Everything seemed to go according to plan, at least …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 26, 2024
2023 turned out to be a busy year in space and the general vicinity. New Atlas looks back at everything from rocket launches and cosmic tsunamis to asteroid samples and the latest astronaut fashions.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: best-of… Continue reading The Year in Space 2023
After being grounded for over a year, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket has returned to the skies and completed its 24th flight from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas as it transported 33 payloads to the edge of space.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading Blue Origin returns to space after year-long grounding
By the end of the decade, NASA’s Artemis program hopes to have placed boots back on the Moon for the first time since 1972. But not for the quick sightseeing …read more Continue reading Artemis’ Next Giant Leap: Orbital Refueling
Blue Origin has taken the wraps off Blue Ring, its multi-orbit, multi-mission space platform that will provide a wide variety of logistical services to commercial and government customers, from medium Earth orbit to interstellar space.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading New Blue Origin space platform to act as a cosmic multi-tool
Two test satellites blasted off on board a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket emblazoned with Amazon’s famous logo on Friday, ahead of more than 3,200 planned to orbit the Earth to directly challenge Elon Musk’s reign over space broadband real… Continue reading Amazon launches two test satellites, initiating star wars with Elon Musk
With the aim of allowing astronauts to live off the land as much as possible when they return to the Moon, NASA has awarded Blue Origin a US$35-million Tipping Point contract to develop the company’s Blue Alchemist process to make solar cells out of lu… Continue reading Blue Alchemist to make solar cells on the Moon using moondust
After an initial disappointment, Jeff Bezos is back in the Moon business. NASA selected Blue Origin’s Blue Moon crewed lander for the space agency’s Artemis V mission to the lunar South Pole in 2029 under a firm-fixed price contract of (US)$3.4 billion… Continue reading Bezos gets his Moon wish with $3.4 billion lunar lander contract