Category: Blue Origin

  • Blue Origin completes 9th New Shepard Test Flight

    Blue Origin completed their 9th test flight of New Shepard from their launch site in West Texas. For this test, Blue Origin tested the Capsule Escape Motor approximately 20 seconds after separation to determine how the Solid Rocket Motor operates at that attitude. There was some concern that the test could cause issues for the booster…

  • Blue Origin launches 8th New Shepard

    Last Sunday Blue Origin successfully launched their 8th New Shepard mission as they continue their march towards sub-orbital crewed missions. This was the first launch of 2018 for Blue Origin and was announced several days before by Jeff Bezo’s via Twitter. Once launched the booster successfully deployed the crew capsule before coming back for a…

  • Blue Origin completes BE-4 hot fire test

    Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin sent a tweet out today with the news that they had completed the first hot fire test of their BE-4 engine which will be used to power their New Glenn rocket and could also be selected by United Launch Alliance (ULA) to power their Vulcan rocket. First hotfire of our…

  • Jeff Bezos provides update on New Glenn Rocket

    This morning at the Satellite 2017 show Jeff Bezos, of Amazon and Blue Origin, provided an on the New Glenn launch system, including video below. He also announced that they had signed their first customer Eutelsat. Excited to announce we have signed our 1st #NewGlenn customer. Welcome to the launch manifest @Eutelsat_SA pic.twitter.com/fTeKKneYnJ — Jeff…

  • Blue Origin Launches New Shepard

    Blue Origin completed the first test flight of there New Shepard rocket yesterday, the New Shepard rocket uses their BE-3 engine which recently completed testing.  The rocket is design to be fully re-usable, unfortunately they were not able to recover the main stage this time due to a hydraulic issue after the crew capsule was…