Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will give NASA a spin in lunar gravity on suborbital flight With backing from NASA, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture will upgrade its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to… Read More
After losing launch competition, Blue Origin delays New Glenn rocket’s first flight until late 2022 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s targeting the fourth quarter of 2022 for the first flight… Read More
Blue Origin shows off an on-the-ground pathfinder version of its cargo lunar lander Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is testing a full-scale prototype of its cargo lunar lander, as part… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ role at Blue Origin hints at how his profile at Amazon is likely to change What will Amazon without Jeff Bezos as CEO look like? It could look a lot like Bezos’ biggest personal passion… Read More
Jeff Bezos kicks back with full-thrust firing of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine in Texas If you’re hanging out in West Texas during a pandemic, there are few fireworks shows more thrilling than a test… Read More
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship aces uncrewed rehearsal for crewed space trips Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture put the New Shepard spaceship that’s destined to fly people on suborbital… Read More
Watch Blue Origin fly its first capsule that’s designed to send people to space and back Update: The uncrewed test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship has been rescheduled for launch at 10:57 a.m.… Read More
Ahoy, Jacklyn! Jeff Bezos names Blue Origin’s rocket recovery ship after his mom SpaceX CEO Elon Musk named his rocket recovery vessels after science-fiction spaceships, but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stayed closer to… Read More
Year in Aerospace: The comeback begins for Boeing and for American spaceflight Boeing’s rebuilding year drew to a close today with a milestone capping a momentous year in aerospace: the first U.S.… Read More
NASA adds Blue Origin’s upcoming New Glenn rocket to its launch services catalog Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture hasn’t yet finished its orbital-class New Glenn rocket, but today NASA put… Read More
Blue Origin’s team turns in its moon landing proposal — and provides a sneak peek Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture and its partners in the space industry say they’ve given NASA their proposal… Read More
Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s BE-7 engine — and makes a bold prediction Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos heralded progress on the development of the rocket engine that’s destined for use on the lunar… Read More
NASA agrees to purchase moon rocks for $1 in a deal that may involve Blue Origin NASA has selected four companies to collect material on the moon and store it up as the space agency’s property,… Read More
Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at… Read More
Blue Origin and Aerojet get in on NASA partnerships for new space technologies Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Aerojet Rocketdyne’s operation in Redmond, Wash., are among 17 companies that… Read More
Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship tests NASA’s moon landing system in Texas Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship today conducted a robotic rehearsal for a future touchdown on the moon — and by all… Read More
After weeks of delay, Blue Origin sets up suborbital space mission to test NASA landing technology Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is now targeting Tuesday for the launch of its New Shepard suborbital… Read More
NASA touts lunar landing tech, and Blue Origin says there’ll be a flight test ‘soon’ Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong famously had to dodge a boulder-strewn crater just seconds before the first moon landing in… Read More
Blue Origin and partners pass key milestone for lunar lander design Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says the aerospace team that it’s leading has completed its first “gated… Read More
Relativity and Reach, Stoke and Starfish: Blue Origin veterans spark space startups Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture turned 20 years old this week — and although the privately held… Read More
Artists create paintings designed to be tempered in space on Blue Origin’s rocket Uplift Aerospace and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture plan to put paintings where virtually no art has… Read More
Blue Origin and its partners deliver a lunar lander mock-up to NASA An all-star space industry team led by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has assembled a mock-up of… Read More
Despite winning contract, SpaceX sticks with lawsuit against feds and rocket rivals Update: A federal district judge in California ruled against SpaceX and ordered its case against the Air Force to be… Read More
ULA and SpaceX win shares of future national security launches; Blue Origin loses out The U.S. Space Force designated United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as the winners of a multibillion-dollar competition for national security… Read More
NASA lays out a plan to qualify suborbital spacecraft for its astronauts and scientists NASA says it’ll formulate a plan to assess the safety of suborbital spacecraft — such as Blue Origin’s New Shepard… Read More
NASA gets set to put astronauts on Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic suborbital flights NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled today that astronauts would soon be cleared to take suborbital spaceflights aboard the commercial rocket… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is putting its own merch on sale … finally Considering the fact that Blue Origin was founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, you’d think that the Seattle-area space venture… Read More
NASA puts Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX on the list for lunar lander development program NASA has selected teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX to develop lunar landing systems capable of putting astronauts… Read More
Blue Origin uses 3-D printers to make visors for medical face shields as well as rocket parts Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture isn’t just turning out parts for rocket ships nowadays: It’s also using… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says three workers in Kent have tested positive for coronavirus Three employees at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture have tested positive for coronavirus and are now in… Read More
