10 May 2019
Bezos unveils Moon mission with Blue Moon lander
..., space industry representatives, staff and reporters. “Humanity is big.” The billionaire also elucidated to the fact that Blue Origin would be able to meet the deadline recently imposed by US vice president Mike Pence for their goal of returning...
16 October 2020
SWRI tests "Clockwork Starfish" for sampling asteroids
...week in a low gravity environment during a flight aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket, which launched from Van Horn... particular rocket booster and the 13th flight for Blue Origin's New Shepard programme, involved placing two Clockwork ...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
...for Robust Lander Services” and “Advancing Sensor Suites to Enable Landing Anywhere on the Lunar Surface” Blue Origin will develop cryogenic liquid propulsion through a combination of technologies in a lunar lander-scaled integrated propulsion system...
09 May 2019
Seradata Space Conference to focus on managing space risk and insurance
... by the very experienced launch executive, Clay Mowry, Vice President of the orbital and suborbital launch provider Blue Origin. Panel sessions will include: ∙ A panel of key start-up launch providers: ABL, Firefly, Orbex and Vector ∙ A supercharged...
10 August 2020
ULA & SpaceX win substantial US government launch contracts
The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), competitively awarded two Firm-Fixed-Price, Indefinite Delivery Requirement contracts for National Security Space launch services Friday to ULA...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... of ‘Commercial Astronaut’ covers the crew, it does not extend to the ‘spaceflight participants’. Indeed, the day of the Blue Origin flight, the FAA amended the requirements for the receipt of Commercial Astronaut Wings to include “activities during...
