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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin debuts New Glenn rocket, signaling a new era in space exploration
24Feb By adminNo Comments
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin debuts New Glenn rocket, signaling a new era in space exploration

[ad_1] Blue Origin, the space technologies founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has achieved a significant milestone with the debut of its New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36). This marks the first time the advanced heavy-lift vehicle has been rolled out and upended, providing a glimpse of what's to come for future space missions.New Glenn rocket debutsAs per a Blue Origin blog post. the New Glenn rocket is poised to play a pivotal role in various missions, including supporting NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the Moon. The successful rollout and upending on the launch pad signify a crucial step forward in the vehicle's development, paving the way for its inaugural launch later this year. The journey to the launch pad began in December, wi...
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Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches to Space in Long-Awaited Return
21Dec By adminNo Comments
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Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches to Space in Long-Awaited Return

[ad_1] Blue Origin LLC's space tourism rocket voyaged to space and back for the first time in 15 months, potentially marking the resumption of regular flights for the Jeff Bezos-founded company following an in-flight failure last year. The flight served as a much needed win for the company, which has struggled with executing its most ambitious spaceflight programs. While its New Shepard rocket did not carry passengers during Tuesday's flight, Blue Origin signaled its intent to restart crewed missions in the near future. “Following a thorough review of today's mission, we look forward to flying our next crewed flight soon,” Erika Wagner, Blue Origin's senior director for emerging space markets, said on a webcast. Following takeoff, the vehicle reached a peak height of roughly 66.5 miles ...
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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin headed back into space with Big Shepard rocket after accident
18Dec By adminNo Comments
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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin headed back into space with Big Shepard rocket after accident

[ad_1] The American company Blue Origin plans to launch its rocketv Big Shepard Monday for the first time since an accident more than a year ago, as the firm founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos heads back into space. The launch window from the pad in west Texas opens at 8:30 am local time (14H30 GMT), said Blue Origin, which plans to live stream the event.This mission known as NS-24 will not carry a crew but rather equipment for scientific experiments, more than half of which Blue Origin has developed in conjunction with NASA. In the accident in September 2022, the rocket booster stage crashed to the ground, although the capsule part of the spacecraft came down safely with parachutes. There was no crew aboard. The accident prompted a probe by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), whi...
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ISRO in Talks With Boeing, Blue Origin, Voyager For Space Partnerships
1Dec By adminNo Comments
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ISRO in Talks With Boeing, Blue Origin, Voyager For Space Partnerships

[ad_1] India's space agency ISRO is exploring joint collaborations with Boeing Co., Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin LLC and Voyager Space Holdings Inc., as an official visit by the head of NASA highlights the growing level of cooperation between the US and India in outer space. The potential partnerships could also involve Indian commercial entities, India's Department of Space said in a statement Wednesday.  NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is visiting several locations in India this week, including Bengaluru-based facilities that are testing and integrating spacecraft for a joint US-Indian Earth-observing mission scheduled for launch in 2024.  Nelson's visit underscores NASA's deepening space alliance with the Indian Space Research Organization, which this year notched several accomplishments ...
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NASA Mars smallsat mission, ESCAPADE, to take off on Blue Origin’s 1st New Glenn launch vehicle
28Nov By adminNo Comments
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NASA Mars smallsat mission, ESCAPADE, to take off on Blue Origin’s 1st New Glenn launch vehicle

[ad_1] The very first launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle is expected to carry the NASA Mars smallsat mission in the coming year. However, experts worry that the spacecraft development might affect the mission's schedule timings. In February 2023, both companies announced their partnership to launch the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) spacecraft with the New Glen. Now, the mission is expected to take its first flight with the new launch vehicle by the end of 2024. Learn more about the partnership between NASA and Blue Origin here.NASA's ESCAPADE mission launchThe Spacenews reported that in February, Blue Origin and NASA joined hands for the ESCAPADE mission which is expected to be launched in the year 2024, however, the budget of the partner...
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic reaches space in overdue commercial debut
29Jun By adminNo Comments
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic reaches space in overdue commercial debut

[ad_1] Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. sent paying customers to the edge of space for the first time, a milestone for the Richard Branson-founded company almost two decades in the making.The VSS Unity craft reached space at about 9:30 a.m. local time in New Mexico, Virgin Galactic revealed in a livestream of the event on its website Thursday. That was about an hour after the flight took off, carrying six people on board, including researchers from the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council of Italy. The commercial debut officially ushers Virgin Galactic into the ranks of space tourism providers alongside the likes of Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin LLC. Virgin Galactic has said it expects to move soon to a regular cadence of monthly commercial flights, bringing...
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First Virgin Galactic commercial flight set for June as Richard Branson looks to restore sheen
16Jun By adminNo Comments
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First Virgin Galactic commercial flight set for June as Richard Branson looks to restore sheen

[ad_1] Billionaire Richard Branson's space-tourism venture, Virgin Galactic Holdings, which has been bravely looking to get back on equal footing with Elon Musk led SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, has finally announced the date for the launch of the company's first commercial passenger flight. Over the last year or so, Virgin had been left trailing both SpaceX and Blue Origin due to innumerable delays that dogged its flight schedule. The company had famously flown Branson to space in July 2021, but failed to do a widely expected commercial follow-up. The flight announcement has instantly been welcomed by investors who pushed the share higher.Called Galactic 01, the long-awaited mission will take place on June 27. The company also revealed that it will include researchers from the It...
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Blue Origin to SpaceX, NASA partners 7 space companies for commercial and govt needs
16Jun By adminNo Comments
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Blue Origin to SpaceX, NASA partners 7 space companies for commercial and govt needs

[ad_1] US space agency NASA is taking collaboration with private agencies to the next level to meet its growing commercial and government requirements and for that it has roped in and tied-up with as many as 7 companies. Among them are Jeff Bezos led Blue Origin and Elon Musk led SpaceX. The ultimate goal, as per NASA is to benefit human spaceflight and the US commercial low Earth orbit economy.Notably, these Space Act Agreements are unfunded. Also, the second Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities-2 initiative (CCSC-2) is designed to advance commercial space-related efforts. This will be done by NASA sharing of technical expertise, assessments, technologies, and data in ways that will expend minimal government resources. However, it will foster development of capabilities to ...
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Jeff Bezos rocket crashes after liftoff
14Sep By adminNo Comments
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Jeff Bezos rocket crashes after liftoff

[ad_1] A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety. A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos' space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety. No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the edge of space. The rockets are now grounded pending the outcome of an investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The New Shepard rocket was barely a minute into its flight from West Texas when b...
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