Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon
Kenneth Chang / nytimes - The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts.
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Bezos' Blue Origin announces satellite rival to Musk's Starlink
bbc - Blue Origin will be focused on businesses and governments, while Starlink also offers services to individual customers.
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket safely made it to space a second time
engadget - Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has completed its second flight, The Washington Post reports. The rocket launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, and successfully separated from its first-stage booster, which later landed on …
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Blue Origin scrubs New Glenn's second flight due to bad weather
engadget - Blue Origin has postponed the second flight of its New Glenn rocket, which was slated to send a pair of NASA spacecraft on the first step of their journey to Mars on Sunday afternoon. The heavy-lift launch vehicle was scheduled to take off from Cape Canav…
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Bezos-backed methane-tracking satellite goes dark unexpectedly
A methane-monitoring satellite, backed by Jeff Bezos and designed to publicly track emission data, has abruptly gone silent just one year into its five‐year mission. Scientists now scramble to understand the technological misstep that jeopardizes a crucial environmental monitoring initiative.
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Blue Origin delays second New Glenn launch amid leadership shuffle
Blue Origin announced a delay to its second New Glenn launch, citing leadership departures and schedule shifts. The setback pushes the ambitious rocket’s takeoff to the fall, leaving investors and space enthusiasts to question whether internal red tape can really get out of orbit.
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