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Commercial space travel is a fairly small industry. Despite Elon Musk’s plans to colonize Mars, you have only two real options for space tourism – Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. But now a third company has entered the fray, with a unique emphasis on accessibility and sustainability. Space Perspective has completed […]
On Tuesday, December 19, Blue Origin successfully completed its 24th mission and first in more than 15 months. The launch was carried out after a series of delays, the flight lasted 10 minutes. The first stage, as planned, landed near the launch pad, and the capsule reached the Karman line, returned to Earth and made […]
Blue Origin plans to resume launches of the reusable spacecraft for suborbital flights New Shepard next week after a 15-month break. The pause was due to an investigation by US regulators into the failed launch of the ship last September. The first mission will be unmanned. “We are targeting the launch window that opens on […]
NASA has announced that two scientific spacecraft will travel to Mars in August 2024 aboard a Blue Origin rocket owned by Jeff Bezos. This decision apparently came about after Elon Musk’s SpaceX encountered difficulties in its attempts to deliver Falcon Heavy rockets to Mars orbit. Initially, SpaceX planned to deliver NASA’s spacecraft to Mars in […]
Blue Origin presents a multifunctional platform for Earth orbit and beyond. Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin is working on reusable rockets, orbital outposts, and lunar vehicles, aiming to create a future where millions of people will live and work in space. The system integration is a large multifunctional platform that can place, launch and […]
At the end of the decade, the International Space Station (ISS) will reach the end of its useful life. This human creation has been orbiting our planet for more than two decades. So, last year, NASA announced that it was accepting applications for the construction of a new space station. The International Space Station (ISS) […]
Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine is designed to launch the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, whose first flight has been postponed several times. As it became known from anonymous sources close to Blue Origin, an explosion occurred at the end of June during a test launch of Jeff Bezos’ BE-4 rocket engine. This is yet another setback […]