Topic: blue origin
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Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Returns After Mars Mission Test
Blue Origin successfully launched and recovered its New Glenn rocket, demonstrating advanced reusability of a massive orbital-class booster with a flawless landing on an ocean platform. The launch overcame delays from weather and a solar storm, achieving a precise first-stage touchdown just nine ...
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Blue Origin's Stunning Success; Vive Le Baguette One!
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully launched and landed, demonstrating the capabilities of reusable heavy-lift vehicles and advancing affordable orbital access. Galactic Energy's Ceres-1 rocket failed during its mission, resulting in the loss of three satellites due to a premature shutdow...
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Blue Origin Vows to 'Move Heaven and Earth' for NASA's Moon Mission
Blue Origin is committed to accelerating NASA's lunar return, with CEO Dave Limp emphasizing their readiness to support a faster American mission to the Moon through new concepts. The urgency is driven by concerns that China may land humans on the Moon before the U.S., prompting NASA to reopen th...
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Blue Ignites Second New Glenn Rocket in Final Pre-Launch Test
Blue Origin successfully conducted a static fire test of the New Glenn rocket's seven BE-4 engines, a key milestone before its next mission, achieving nearly 3.9 million pounds of thrust. The test included simulating engine shutdowns to replicate landing conditions, aiming to recover the first st...
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NASA Chief Overhauls Moon Landing Strategy
NASA's acting administrator Sean Duffy announced that the 2027 crewed Moon landing goal is unachievable due to SpaceX's Starship delays, and he plans to broaden lunar lander competition to outpace China. Duffy is opening up the contract process to include companies like Blue Origin, moving beyond...
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SpaceX Booster Fails; Pegasus Set for Return Flight
Blue Origin is advancing its New Glenn rocket with engine upgrades following a successful launch, while SpaceX prepares for the inaugural Starship flight. NASA has awarded a $30 million contract to Katalyst Space Technologies to build a robotic rescue vehicle for the Swift Observatory, whose orbi...
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China's Falcon 9-Style Rocket Tested as NASA's Moon Rocket Completes Stacking
LandSpace and Blue Origin are advancing reusable rocket technology, with LandSpace preparing its Zhuque-3 for a Falcon 9-style vertical landing and Blue Origin planning its second New Glenn mission, aiming to recover orbital-class boosters like SpaceX. Private companies and defense contractors ar...
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NASA Chief Shakes Up Moon Landing Plans
NASA's acting administrator announced delays in the crewed Moon landing timeline, citing SpaceX's Starship setbacks and abandoning the 2027 target. The agency plans to foster competition by involving other companies like Blue Origin to accelerate lunar lander development and beat China to the Moo...
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China's secret space launch; Europe's drone ship advances
SpaceX's Starship program has achieved significant progress with the successful launch and recovery of the Super Heavy booster, though the Starship vehicle faced earlier setbacks including the loss of four prototypes in early 2025. Recent Starship missions have shown marked improvement, culminati...
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Bezos: Millions Will Live in Space This Century
Jeff Bezos predicts millions of people will voluntarily live in space within decades, with advanced robotics handling labor in off-world settlements and AI data centers operating in orbit. His vision contrasts with Elon Musk's goal of colonizing Mars, raising questions about the feasibility of th...
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Stoke Space Bets Big on the Only Launch Problem That Matters
Stoke Space differentiates itself in the competitive spaceflight industry by focusing on a unique approach to reusability, rather than just designing another rocket, as co-founded by experienced aerospace engineers. The company identified that true reusability requires recovering the upper stage,...
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Solar Flare Delays Jeff Bezos' New Glenn Rocket Launch
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launch was postponed due to a powerful solar storm, which could interfere with satellite functions and prompted NASA to delay sending its ESCAPADE probes to Mars. NASA, as the mission customer, decided to wait for improved space weather to protect the spacecraft's s...
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SpaceX Starship Explodes in High-Stakes Test Flight
An upgraded SpaceX Starship booster exploded during ground testing at its South Texas facility, causing significant damage to the booster's lower section during a gas system pressure test. The incident involves a critical component of the Starship V3 design, which is essential for SpaceX's plans ...
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ULA's Vulcan rocket costs surge in Pentagon contract data
SpaceX secured five out of seven national security satellite launch contracts from the US Space Force, with United Launch Alliance (ULA) winning the remaining two missions. Only SpaceX and ULA are currently certified for these critical launches, utilizing Falcon rockets and the Vulcan rocket resp...
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Elon Musk's Feud With NASA Chief: The Real Reason
A public dispute has erupted between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA's Acting Administrator Sean Duffy after NASA announced it would reopen the Artemis 3 moon-landing contract for competition, which SpaceX originally won in 2021. Duffy justified the decision by citing concerns over potential delays...
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Kuiper Challenges Starlink: The New Satellite Internet Race
Amazon's Project Kuiper is aggressively challenging SpaceX's Starlink by securing over 80 rocket launches from multiple providers, including SpaceX, to deploy a large satellite constellation for global broadband. The project uses a diverse set of launch partners to speed up deployment and reduce ...
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Startup Raises $250M for "Giga" Satellite Design
K2, a California startup, has raised $250 million to scale production of its high-power satellite platforms, bringing its total funding to over $400 million. The company is developing large "Mega" and "Giga" class satellites to capitalize on new heavy-lift rockets and meet future demand for subst...
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Lawmakers: NASA Delays Need Consequences as China Advances
U.S. lawmakers are concerned that China may land astronauts on the Moon before NASA's Artemis program, intensifying scrutiny of NASA's strategy and U.S. space leadership. Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin criticized the Artemis program's reliance on complex, unproven technology requiring mul...
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Unveiling NASA's Simplified Starship Moon Mission Plan
NASA is urging its lunar lander partners, SpaceX and Blue Origin, to develop simpler and faster strategies for the Artemis III Moon mission to expedite astronauts' return to the lunar surface. SpaceX is evaluating a "simplified" version of its Starship system, aiming to streamline the mission arc...
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SpaceX's Rocket Failure Investigator Hans Koenigsmann Is Going to Space
Hans Koenigsmann, a long-serving SpaceX veteran, left the company in 2021 after two decades, having contributed significantly to mission safety and failure investigations. He is set to fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft with Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, who will become the first wheelchair...
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World's Busiest Spaceport Shatters Another Launch Record
The Space Coast in Florida set a new annual launch record with its 94th orbital mission of 2025, as a Falcon 9 rocket deployed 29 Starlink satellites, contributing to a global total of 259 orbital launches projected to reach 300 by year's end. Despite the increased launch frequency, public intere...
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Europe's Reusable Rocket Program Gains Momentum After Slow Start
Europe is advancing in reusable rocket technology, highlighted by ArianeGroup's Themis prototype now on its launch pad for upcoming low-altitude hop tests to validate landing capabilities. This progress contrasts with Europe's earlier focus on expendable systems like Ariane 6, which caused a lag ...
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