Tag: suborbital spaceflight
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Blue Origin lofts new New Shepard capsule into space for test run before carrying crew
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship rises from its Texas launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture successfully sent a brand-new New Shepard rocket ship on an uncrewed shakedown cruise today, with the aim of increasing the company’s capacity to take people on suborbital space trips. The capsule, dubbed RSS…
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Blue Origin sends six people on suborbital space trip, marking a first for researchers
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lands after a suborbital space launch. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today provided a brief dose of spaceflight to six people, including the first researcher to conduct his own experiment on a suborbital space trip with NASA support. The team for Blue Origin’s eighth crewed…
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Blue Origin sets a date for its next flight to launch people and experiments into space
The NS-26 mission’s crew includes a biologist and one of the youngest women to go into space. (Blue Origin Photos) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says its next suborbital spaceflight is set for Aug. 29, with a space researcher and a college senior among the mission’s six spacefliers. Next week’s launch of a reusable…
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Blue Origin flies its first crew in 21 months — and writes another page in space history
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship lifts off from its West Texas pad. (Credit: Blue Origin) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today resumed sending people on suborbital space trips after a 21-month gap, and made a Black aerospace pioneer’s 60-year-old dream come true in the process. “Man, it feels good to be flying again,”…
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Launch success brings Blue Origin closer to resuming crewed suborbital space trips
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster touches down at the end of an uncrewed flight. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today sent its New Shepard rocket ship on its first suborbital trip to space in 15 months — and although no people were aboard the craft this time, the research mission boosted confidence…
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Blue Origin ramps up for second launch attempt after delaying return to spaceflight
The New Shepard rocket ship is readied for launch from Launch Site One in West Texas. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is heading back to the launch pad again early Tuesday to send its New Shepard rocket ship on an uncrewed space mission for the first time in 15 months. Monday’s…
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Blue Origin is ready to launch New Shepard spaceship after more than a year on hold
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship was grounded after a failed mission in 2022. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to send its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on an uncrewed research mission as early as Dec. 18, marking the company’s first launch since a rocket engine malfunction spoiled a similar uncrewed mission…
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FAA closes investigation into Blue Origin’s launch mishap; flights could resume ‘soon’
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship sits on its pad in advance of its launch in September 2022. (Blue Origin via YouTube) The Federal Aviation Administration says that it’s closed its investigation of last year’s mishap involving Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket ship, but that Jeff Bezos’ space venture isn’t yet cleared to resume…
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Blue Origin traces launch failure to engine nozzle and says flights will resume ‘soon’
The booster for Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship flares during last year’s ascent. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says a launch anomaly that forced the suspension of its suborbital spaceflights last September was caused by a structural failure of the rocket engine’s nozzle. Corrective actions are being taken, and flights…
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Lauren Sanchez plans to lead an all-female crew on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spaceship
Lauren Sanchez, in the white dress, is flanked by Blue Origin personnel as she tours the West Texas landing pad after her boyfriend Jeff Bezos’ flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship in July 2021. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Lauren Sanchez is planning to follow in the footsteps of her billionaire boyfriend, Amazon…