The Jeff Bezos-founded launch company Blue Origin may have yet to achieve orbit with its New Glenn rocket series but its new In-Space Systems division has unveiled Blue Ring, a spacecraft platform focused on providing in-space logistics and delivery. The Blue Ring...
Having lost out in the competition to produce NASA’s initial lunar lander for its Human Landing System (HLS), Blue Origin’s National Team celebrated the award of a contract for a second lander design under the agency’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar...
Blue Origin has noted the failure mechanism which doomed the unmanned flight New Shepard NS-23 suborbital spacecraft. After its lift off at 1401 GMT on 12 September 2022 at T+ 1 minute 5 seconds the New Shepard booster (NS Propulsion Module Tail 3) suffered an...
Much changed on Earth and in space during 2022. In July the James Webb Telescope, the largest optical telescope in space, delighted the world with stunning infrared images, revealing the most detailed view ever of the Universe. After a series of stalled attempts,...
Blue Origin’s New Shepard uncrewed suborbital vehicle suffered a failure on its booster rocket just one minute after its launch on 12 September. New Shepard lifted off normally at 14:27 GMT from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas. The company has not...
After a brief delay Blue Origin has successfully launched its sixth crewed sub-orbital flight. The launch took place at 1357 GMT on 4 August. New Shepard flight NS-22 carried six passengers to an apogee of 347,585 ft – 106 km AGL (Above Ground Level) and 351,232...
