Blue Origin Makes Historic Rocket Landing (with video) “Blue Origin today announced that its New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space, reaching its planned test altitude of 329,839 feet […]
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Blue Origin Is Headed to Florida
Blue Origin Selects Florida’s Space Coast for Production and Launch Site, SpaceRef Business “Blue Origin has selected the Florida Space Coast to locate a new manufacturing facility and signed an […]
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Space Barge Patent Spat Ends – For Now
SpaceX wins patent round against Bezos’ Blue Origin, PoliticoPro (subscription) “The decision to invalidate the patent was issued Thursday at Blue Origin’s request. The company received a mostly unfavorable preliminary […]
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First Developmental Flight of New Shepard
First Developmental Flight of New Shepard “Today (29 April 2015) we flew the first developmental test flight of our New Shepard space vehicle. Our 110,000-lbf thrust liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen […]
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Blue Origin Completes Acceptance Testing of BE-3 Engine
Blue Origin Completes Acceptance Testing of BE-3 Engine for New Shephard Suborbital Flight “Blue Origin recently completed acceptance testing of its BE-3 rocket engine, the first new hydrogen engine to […]
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SpaceX Barge Landing Patent Petition Challenge Denied – and Accepted
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP., Petitioner, v. BLUE ORIGIN LLC, Patent Owner. Case IPR2014-01376 Patent 8,678,321 B2. Paper […]
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Who Invented The Space Barge?
How Deep Can A Space Patent Dispute Go?, Medium “Blue Origin, LLC (“Blue”) filed U.S. Patent Application No. 12/815,306, entitled “Sea Landing of Space Launch Vehicles and Associated Systems and […]
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Blue Origin and ULA to Jointly Fund New BE-4 Engine
United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin Announce Partnership To Develop New American Rocket Engine, Blue Origin “United Launch Alliance (ULA), the nation’s premier space launch company, and Blue Origin, LLC, […]
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Wall Street Journal's Confused Boeing/Blue Origin Stories
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos’s Startup Is Part of Bid to Deliver Astronauts, Wall Street Journal “The long-secretive space ambitions of Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com Inc., suddenly […]
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SpaceX and Blue Origin Patent Skirmish
SpaceX Challenges Patent Filed by Blue Origin, SpaceRef Business “An employee of Docket Alarm earlier today posted on tech news blog Slashdot that SpaceX had filled a challenge to the […]