Tuesday morning, in the desert north of Van Horn, a two hour drive east of El Paso, Blue Origin successfully completed the 13th New Shepard mission to space and back, and the 7th consecutive flight for this particular vehicle, a record. There were 12 payloads onboard including the Deorbit, Descent, and Landing Sensor Demonstration under […]Read More
Thursday, the Blue Origin-led Human Landing System (HLS) National Team – comprised of Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper – delivered an engineering mockup of a crew lander vehicle that could take American astronauts to the Moon. The lander is set up in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF), NASA Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) iconic Building 9. The full-scale engineering mockup showcases two elements […]Read More
For all of you space enthusiasts out there, here’s a question for you: Why do you think Earth needs space? Blue Origin’s non-profit, Club for the Future, is asking students around the world that very question. They are looking to have students draw or write their idea on a postcard, which will then be flown […]Read More
On Tuesday, Blue Origin officials announced a national team to offer a Human Landing System for NASA’s Artemis program to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Blue Origin has signed teaming agreements with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper. These partners have decades of experience supporting NASA with human space flight systems, launch […]Read More
On Wednesday, Telesat and regional space launch company Blue Origin announced a signed, multi-launch agreement that paves the way for the powerful New Glenn rocket to play a key role in Telesat’s deployment of its global LEO satellite constellation that will deliver fiber-like broadband services anywhere on Earth. According to officials, Telesat’s LEO program will […]Read More
Monday morning, officials with Blue Origin, the regional spaceflight company with launch facilities located just north Van Horn, announced a new launch scheduled for Tuesday morning. Blue Origin’s next New Shepard mission (NS-10) is currently targeting liftoff Tuesday, December 18 at 7:30 am. This will be the 10th New Shepard mission and is dedicated to bringing nine NASA-sponsored research […]Read More
From their isolated launch pad just north of Van Horn, officials with Blue Origin – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ private space access company – announced the successful launch and recovery of their ‘New Shepard’ spacecraft. During this mission, known as Mission 9 (M9), the escape motor was fired shortly after booster separation. The Crew Capsule […]Read More
On Sunday, Blue Origin’s New Shepard Capsule flew again for the eighth time from the West Texas Launch Site just outside of Van Horn, some 125 miles east of El Paso. Known as Mission 8 (M8), the weekend mission featured a reflight of the vehicle flown on Mission 7. According to Blue Origin officials, “The […]Read More
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard flew again for the seventh time from Blue Origin’s West Texas Launch Site near Van Horn, Texas. Known as Mission 7 (M7), the mission featured the next-generation booster and the first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0. Crew Capsule 2.0 features large windows, measuring 2.4 feet wide, 3.6 feet tall. […]Read More
Almost two months to the day that Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard spacecraft was launched and returned safely to the pad in far West Texas, the same ship made history once again on Friday, repeating the feat. Via a news release and video on his Blue Origin website, Bezos announced the successful launch and return of the […]Read More
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