Tag: commercial-space
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Video: Jeff Bezos spotlights Blue Origin’s ‘very happy’ rocket scientists after touchdown
Blue Origin employees celebrate the successful landing of the company’s uncrewed suborbital rocket ship after a test flight to the edge of space on Nov. 23. (Credit: Blue Origin via YouTube) “Touchdown” means something different to rocket scientists and to football fans, but the cheering, hugs and high fives are the same – as revealed today…
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Spaceflight offers a Cyber Monday deal: Satellite launches for $200,000 – that’s 33 percent off!
Spaceflight’s Cyber Monday deal will deliver satellites to orbit in 2018. (Credit: Spaceflight) Here’s a Cyber Monday deal from Seattle-based Spaceflight for the space geek on your list: Purchase a satellite launch for one-third off, at the low, low price of $200,000. The only catch is that you’ll have to wait until 2018 for the satellite…
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XCOR Aerospace co-founders launch new startup: Agile Aero for the next frontier
In a 2013 photo, Jeff Greason inspects XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx rocket engine while Doug Jones (at left) looks on. Greason has left XCOR and is creating a new venture called Agile Aero, while Jones is staying on with XCOR. (Credit: XCOR Aerospace) XCOR Aerospace pioneered the rapid development of rocket propulsion systems, and now three…
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Asteroid mining riches await: President Obama signs space resource bill into law
An artist’s concept shows a spacecraft mining an asteroid. (Credit: Bryan Versteeg / Deep Space Industries) President Barack Obama today put his signature on a law supporting the rights of space miners to extract, use and sell resources from asteroids, the moon, Mars and other celestial bodies – giving space-minded entrepreneurs something extra to be thankful for. “This…
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Wow! Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sends New Shepard rocket ship to space – and gets it back safely
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship rises from its West Texas launch pad on Monday. (Credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, successfully sent its New Shepard rocket ship to outer space for the first time on Monday – and even more amazingly, brought every piece back down to…
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Exclusive: Jeff Bezos speaks out on Blue Origin, SpaceX and space trips: ‘I can’t wait to go!’
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, sprays champagne from a bottle after the successful landing of the New Shepard rocket booster on Monday. (Credit: Blue Origin via YouTube) Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, says watching his Blue Origin rocket make a safe landing after flying into space rates as one of the…
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It’s official: NASA signs up to send crew on SpaceX’s Dragon space taxi
An artist’s conception shows SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule en route to the International Space Station. (Credit: SpaceX) NASA has ordered its first mission from SpaceX to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, six months after placing a similar order with Boeing. “It’s really exciting to see SpaceX and Boeing with hardware in flow for…
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Jeff Bezos says next flight test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship should come ‘very soon’
Blue Origin’s New Shepard prototype spaceship lifts off from its West Texas launch pad during a test flight in April. (Blue Origin photo) Even as Jeff Bezos celebrates past achievements in spaceflight, he’s looking forward to seeing his Blue Origin space venture make future achievements. The next flight test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship should…
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Work continues on Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch plane, but rocket plans are still under wraps
Stratolaunch Systems’ twin-fuselage jet is shown under construction inside a hangar in Mojave, Calif. Vulcan Aerospace released the photo in April. (Credit: Vulcan Aerospace) The world’s largest airplane is taking shape for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Aerospace venture, but it’s not yet clear what kind of rocket would be launched from the Stratolaunch super-jumbo jet.…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin targets 2016 for suborbital research flights with drone spaceships
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship rises from its West Texas launch pad in April for a test flight. (Blue Origin photo) Blue Origin, the space venture backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is reportedly planning to start flying research payloads on its New Shepard suborbital space vehicle as early as the first half of…