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Website. blueorigin.com. Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P., [ 2 ] commonly referred to as Blue Origin[ 3 ] is an American aerospace manufacturer, government contractor, launch service provider, [ 4 ][ 5 ] and space technologies [ 6 ] company headquartered in Kent, Washington, United States.
Watch liftoff of Blue Origin's New Shepard. The scheduled New Shepard flight lifted off at 9:07 a.m. ET into cloudy skies from Bezos' Launch Site One in rural West Texas over 140 miles east of El ...
Its first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines that are also designed and manufactured by Blue Origin. It is intended to launch from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36, with the first stage landing on a barge called Landing Platform Vessel 1. [9] [10] The inaugural vehicle was unveiled on the launch pad in February 2024. [11] [12]
Blue Origin has a suborbital launch facility known as Launch Site One. It is located in the West Texas region, 25 miles north of the town of Van Horn at 31.451646°+N, -104.762835°+W . Current launch license and experimental permits from the US government Federal Aviation Administration authorize flights of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital ...
Jeff Bezos gave a tour of Blue Origin's factory, showcasing the space company's New Glenn rocket. New Glenn, standing over 320 feet tall, is one of the largest rockets ever built.
Blue Origin is preparing to launch its heavy-lift rocket, New Glenn, and land it for the first time from Florida's Space Coast this fall.. The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, will launch a NASA ...
New Shepard flights. ← Blue Origin NS-23. Blue Origin NS-25 →. Blue Origin NS-24 was an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight mission of Blue Origin 's New Shepard rocket, which launched on 19 December 2023. It was New Shepard's first flight in over a year since the failure of Blue Origin NS-23, and was Blue Origin's 24th overall flight to go ...
This time, instead of Blue's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos headlining the flight, the company will be sending 90-year old William Shatner, who is set to become the oldest person to go to space.