Topic: financial viability

  • Blue Origin Ends Its Suborbital Space Tourism Program

    Blue Origin Ends Its Suborbital Space Tourism Program

    Blue Origin is pausing its New Shepard space tourism program, a move widely seen as permanent, to reallocate resources toward its lunar ambitions, including the New Glenn rocket. Despite a successful operational history with 38 launches and 98 space tourists, the program was a financial drain and...

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  • Rocket Report: 5-Ton Satellite Falls Off Booster; SpaceX-xAI Merger?

    Rocket Report: 5-Ton Satellite Falls Off Booster; SpaceX-xAI Merger?

    NASA is conducting a critical wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis II mission's Space Launch System rocket, a key step toward a launch targeted for no earlier than February 6. The UK launch company Orbex is being sold to spacecraft manufacturer The Exploration Company, a major shift that reverses ...

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