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Blue Moon is a family of lunar landers and their associated infrastructure, intended to carry humans and cargo to the Moon, under development by a consortium led by Blue Origin and including Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, Astrobotic, and Honeybee Robotics.
Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft successfully simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight Tuesday morning over West Texas.. Video of the uncrewed launch ...
Blue Origin to attempt moon gravity simulation. The New Shepard mission is far from the first to carry scientific payloads to the edge of space, but it will be the first to attempt to simulate the ...
Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. is an American space technology company headquartered in Kent, Washington. The company operates the suborbital New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles, including United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur.
It was Blue Origin’s first attempt at mimicking lunar gravity, which is one-sixth that of Earth. NASA said it wants to test equipment on short spaceflights to weed out any problems before sending them to the moon. The experiments — mainly sponsored by NASA — included ways to keep lunar dust off future moonwalkers’ spacesuits and tools.
Blue Origin, the space flight project launched by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has set a goal to reach the moon by 2023. The plan, named Blue Moon, is aimed at preparing the moon for an eventually ...
The Blue Engine 7 is a liquid hydrogen/oxygen dual expander cycle engine for use with the Blue Moon family of lunar landers. The company utilizes additive manufacturing in the development process and it is meant to generate 10,000 lbf (4.5 tf) of thrust, serving as both the ascent and descent engines for Blue Moon.
RENTON, Wash. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture says it has test-fired its BE-7 rocket engine for the total six-minute duration it would need for a landing on the moon.