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Blue Origin

BE-4 engine testing

Blue Origin, ULA and Aerojet win Air Force contracts for U.S.-made rocket engines

Blue Origin, the rocket venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is among the beneficiaries in a set of Air Force… Read More

Why this 9-year-old visited Amazon’s secret drone facility, and delivered a package to Jeff Bezos

A few days before the New Year, a 9-year-old boy named Evan was granted a wish: to fly from his hometown of… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture provides glimpses of its road ahead

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is lifting the curtain just a bit on its future… Read More

Blue Origin New Shepard landing

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin does it again: Used rocket goes into space and lands intact

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on another flight test to outer-space… Read More

Richard Branson

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson ribs space billionaires amid Blue Origin buzz

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture may have done another flight test, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making… Read More

Twitter truce: Jeff Bezos takes the high road, offers kudos to Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Rocket launches can sometimes turn into flame wars, as shown by last year’s Twitter tug of war between space-minded billionaires Jeff… Read More

Blue Origin rocket landing

Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more

When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Alan Boyle’s guide to the year in space, and what’s next for the universe in 2016

It was a big year in space: Historic rocket launches; revelations from distant planets; an unprecedented glimpse of the surface of Pluto; evidence… Read More

Image: Blue Origin celebration

Lawmakers geek out over Washington state’s rising space industry

Washington state legislators got an introduction to the state’s space industry today at Seattle’s Museum of Flight – and voiced amazement at… Read More

Blue Origin celebration

Video: Jeff Bezos spotlights Blue Origin’s ‘very happy’ rocket scientists after touchdown

“Touchdown” means something different to rocket scientists and to football fans, but the cheering, hugs and high fives are the same… Read More

Exclusive: Jeff Bezos speaks out on Blue Origin, SpaceX and space trips: ‘I can’t wait to go!’

Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, says watching his Blue Origin rocket make a safe landing after flying into space rates as… Read More

Blue Origin New Shepard launch

Wow! Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sends New Shepard rocket ship to space – and gets it back safely

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, successfully sent its New Shepard rocket ship to outer… Read More

New Shepard launch

Jeff Bezos says next flight test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship should come ‘very soon’

Even as Jeff Bezos celebrates past achievements in spaceflight, he’s looking forward to seeing his Blue Origin space venture make future achievements.… Read More

Falcon 9 launch

SpaceX trumps United Launch Alliance in bid for Air Force GPS-3 launch contract

SpaceX is poised to win an Air Force national security launch contract by default because its archrival, United Launch Alliance, has… Read More

New Shepard launch

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin targets 2016 for suborbital research flights with drone spaceships

Blue Origin, the space venture backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is reportedly planning to start flying research payloads on… Read More

Former astronaut: NASA ‘certainly not dead, but they are lost at the moment’

Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu, who logged more than 206 days in space over his career, said there are a… Read More

Boeing’s new CEO sees Amazon and Facebook as competitors (and potential partners)

Two months into his job as the Boeing Co.’s president and CEO, Dennis Muilenburg says Amazon and Facebook are emerging… Read More

Jeff Bezos confirms big Blue Origin space facility in Florida, unveils new rocket

Updated throughout with details of announcement. Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Jeff Bezos, confirmed plans this morning to build… Read More

Blue Origin’s rocket-landing patent canceled in victory for SpaceX

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has capitulated to Elon Musk’s SpaceX in a dispute over a Blue Origin patent covering… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos set to announce big news about Blue Origin’s Florida launch plans

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is heading to Cape Canaveral next month to make a “significant announcement regarding the emerging commercial launch… Read More

SpaceShipTwo

NTSB’s SpaceShipTwo findings put more pressure on FAA in commercial space

The recommendations coming out of a federal investigation of last October’s fatal SpaceShipTwo breakup are likely to add to the challenges… Read More

Space engineer Mark Russell has a plan to harvest energy from the earth using rockets

“Now is a good time to chat, I’m not underground.” That’s the first thing Mark Russell tells me when I… Read More

New Shepard launch

Blue Origin may receive $8M grant for rocket manufacturing plant near Kennedy Space Center

Blue Origin, the space exploration company started by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, may get an $8 million grant to build… Read More

Museum’s ‘Flight Team’ aims to fill age gap, fuel aerospace economy, and launch new leaders

The leaders of Seattle’s Museum of Flight see the institution not just as a place for historical artifacts, but as a… Read More

New Shepard launch

Bezos’ Blue Origin starts spaceflight signups for its New Shepard capsule

Why stop with asking for an invitation for an Amazon Echo, or a reservation for the new Tesla Powerwall, when… Read More

New Shepard launch

Blue Origin spaceship makes first test flight, with founder Jeff Bezos in the control room

Blue Origin, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ space venture, launched the first developmental test flight of its New Shepard spacecraft in… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completes key early testing of new hydrogen rocket engine

Blue Origin, the commercial space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, says it has completed acceptance testing of its… Read More

Name a rocket: Boeing-Lockheed venture and Bezos’ Blue Origin are looking for your vote

Eagle, Freedom or GalaxyOne — which do you prefer? Those are the three choices you can vote for in this… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin dealt setback in patent dispute with SpaceX over rocket landings

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a key preliminary ruling in its dispute with Blue Origin over a patent received by the Jeff… Read More

Alibaba makes Fast Company’s Most Innovative List, Amazon falls off

Fast Company announced its annual ranking of the world’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce powerhouse, ranks… Read More

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