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Blue Origin, founded in 2000, is the brainchild of Amazon CEO Bezos who envisions the company as a regular provider of space transport for both cargo and crew and a major player in making humanity ...
A successful launch would have greatly boosted Bezos' spacefaring ambitions for Blue Origin. Besides the New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin has developed other space vehicles, including the New Shepard .
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.
The roughly 320-foot (98-meter) New Glenn is not only the first Blue Origin rocket designed to be capable of hauling satellites to space, it’s also among the most powerful in the world.
Among those who were quick to congratulate Blue Origin on the successful launch was billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX, which Bezos said he does not view as a competitor.
Blue Origin NS-27 was an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight mission, operated by Blue Origin, launched on 23 October 2024 using the New Shepard rocket. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Previously, a 7 October launch attempt was called off after rocket issues and a subsequent attempt on 13 October foiled by a GPS issue.
Unlike other uncrewed New Shepard flights, NS-15 did not carry science experiments as cargo, as the flight was a crew flight exercise. The only payloads on board were a mannequin, dubbed "Mannequin Skywalker", which was outfitted with various sensors to monitor the environment inside the crew capsule and the effects on the body for crewed missions.
Simply put, Blue Origin is going to need to win new customers, and new contracts, in order for this business to be successful. Even with a backer like Bezos behind it, success for Blue Origin is ...