Keith’s note: According to Blue Origin: “New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today’s NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective. New Glennâs seven BE-4 engines ignited on January 16, […]
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Blue Origin Almost Launches New Glenn
Keith’s note: like everyone else I stayed up to watch the New Glenn launch and did some TV talking head time too. Here’s the audio from Deutsche Welle prior to […]
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Soon SLS Will Have Two Immense American Rockets To Compete With
Keith’s note: According to a Blue origin posting: “New Glenn successfully completed an integrated launch vehicle hotfire test today, the final major milestone on our road to first flight. NG-1 […]
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NASAWatch on Scripps: Boeing’s Starliner Launch
Keith’s note: I just spoke with Scripps News about the upcoming flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station, the problems Boeing has had with the spacecraft, competition […]
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NASA Blesses Northrop Grumman / Voyager Space Holdings Merged Commercial Space Station Efforts
Keith’s note: as first reported the other day the commercial space station competition is now tightening. Blue Origin seems to be losing interest and focusing their big rocket, Sierra Space […]
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Blue Origin Wins Artemis Lander Contract
“NASA announced today (May 19) that Blue Origin is the winner of the second Artemis lunar lander contract today. Initially, NASA had hoped to fund more than one lander concept […]
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Blue Loses Two
Reliable Robotics Expands Commercial Team with Key Executive Hires “A.C. Charania, Vice President of Product Strategy … will further develop the product and service architectures for the Remotely Operated Aircraft […]
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Blue Origin Sends Six Into Space
Blue Origin Launches 6 New Astronauts Into Space, SpaceRef “The third crewed flight of a Blue Origin New Shepard launch system was conducted today. The “RSS First Step” left Earth […]
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Blue Origin Announces A 6 Person Crew For NS-19
Alan Shepard’s daughter Laura Shepard Churchley and GMA co-anchor Michael Strahan to fly on NS-19 alongside four customers, Blue Origin “Blue Origin today announced the crew of its upcoming NS-19 […]
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Blue Origin's HLS Proposal Had A Lot Of Problems
Newly Released Court Documents Obliterate Blue Origin’s Lawsuit Against NASA, Futurism The US Court of Federal Claims has released a 47 page document detailing its decision to drop Blue Origin’s […]