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The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, will launch a NASA spacecraft to Mars in the inaugural launch of New Glenn. NASA and Blue Origin are targeting Sunday, Oct. 13, to launch NASA's ESCAPADE ...
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 ...
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.
(Reuters) -Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew - including the first U.S. Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s - from West Texas to the edge of space on Sunday ...
New Glenn is a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin, named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth. [8] New Glenn is a two-stage rocket with a diameter of 7 m (23 ft). Its first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines that are also designed and manufactured by Blue Origin.
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 ...
New Shepard’s 2022 failure. A New Shepard rocket and spacecraft were set to launch a batch of science instruments on September 12, 2022. But one minute into flight, the rocket endured Max Q ...
The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4) [5] is an oxygen-rich [6] liquefied-methane-fueled staged-combustion rocket engine produced by Blue Origin. The BE-4 was developed with private and public funding. [7] The engine has been designed to produce 2.4 meganewtons (550,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level. [8]