April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... still dreaming about Mars exploration, Musk figured out how to pay for it. After a very slow start, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is also making progress, albeit focussed on reducing heavy launch costs and building lunar landers...
21 December 2015
SpaceX’s postponed rocket launch due for lift off today
... debris after takeoff. Last month, Blue Origin, a privately-funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, also announced a successfully landing of the New Shepard rocket after a suborbital flight. As the competition heats up, both...
16 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
..., but after meeting with five launch providers "in Japan, Europe - and also obviously Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos," said SNC's co-owner and president Erin Ozmen, SNC chose ULA largely for the Vulcan Centaur...
15 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... to build the launch pads on the top of the 17 foot dune they are going to be under water.” The Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin commercial spaceflight company, which is pumping a billion dollars into the Space Coast area...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... as part of Elon Musk’s Starlink endeavour. And it is a couple of thousand less than the 3,236 satellites planned as part of Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper network. This sheer volume of satellites expected to dominate our skies in the next few years...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
...-fixed price, milestone-based contracts and were given to Elon Musk's SpaceX, Dynetics (a Leidos company) and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. Blue Origin won 60 percent of the total funding amounting to $579 million, Dynetics: $253 million...
