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Jeff Bezos' space rocket company, Blue Origin, has long lagged behind Elon Musk's SpaceX. Its CEO, David Limp, thinks adopting some of Amazon's customer-centric culture will help. He is also ...
(Reuters) -Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew - including the first U.S. Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s - from West Texas to the edge of space on Sunday ...
Blue Origin is preparing to launch its heavy-lift rocket, New Glenn, and land it for the first time from Florida's Space Coast this fall.. The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, will launch a NASA ...
The first hotfire-tested Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine, serial number 103, at the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 2018, showing the liquid methane inlet side of the engine. The New Glenn is a 7 m (23 ft) diameter two-stage orbital launch vehicle with a reusable first stage [22] and an expendable second stage. [42]
Blue Origin NS-25 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission, operated by Blue Origin, which was launched on 19 May 2024 using the New Shepard rocket. [1] [2] NS-25 was the first crewed New Shepard flight since NS-22 in August 2022. The New Shepard fleet was grounded following a September 2022 engine failure on an uncrewed mission. The vehicle ...
The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4) [5] is an oxygen-rich [6] liquefied-methane-fueled staged-combustion rocket engine produced by Blue Origin. The BE-4 was developed with private and public funding. [ 7 ] The engine has been designed to produce 2.4 meganewtons (550,000 lbf ) of thrust at sea level.
Nashville Dr. Eiman Jahangir on board New Shepard 26. The Vanderbilt University Medical Center cardiologist was one of six people shot into space Aug. 29. 2024 on a suborbital flight with Blue Origin.
Blue Origin later revealed that the cause of the failure was a problem with the engine nozzle, a large cone that directs the flaming exhaust at the rocket’s bottom. Onboard computers accurately ...