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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 landing maneuver, designed to allow Blue Origin to refurbish and reuse rocket boosters— much like SpaceX does with its Falcon rockets — is an attempt to save money and drive down the cost ...
Blue Origin’s key objective is to reach orbit safely, with anything beyond that the “icing on the cake”, the company said. Writing on X, Blue Origin said: “We want to be clear about our ...
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company's launch site in West Texas on March 31, 2022. The mission carried five paying passengers and Gary Lai, New Shepard's chief architect ...
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, just called off its first attempt to get its new, 30-story New Glenn rocket off the ground.
Update: Around 3 a.m. Monday, Blue Origin scrubbed its New Glenn launch attempt to “troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue,” the company said on X. Blue Origin is now targeting a launch date ...
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.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is set for an inaugural launch of its giant New Glenn rocket on Sunday, a long-awaited first leap to Earth orbit that sets up one of the biggest challenges yet to industry ...