Topic: blue origin
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Industry officials flag Crew Dragon availability as a 'disaster waiting to happen'
NASA's Commercial Crew Program, intended to create two reliable providers for low-Earth orbit transportation, has largely failed as Boeing's Starliner is unlikely to fly another crewed mission before 2028, leaving SpaceX's Crew Dragon as the only operational American vehicle. The near-total depen...
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Wally Funk, last Mercury 13 member and oldest woman in space, dies at 87
Wally Funk, the pioneering pilot and final surviving member of the Mercury 13, died at age 87 on July 10, 2026, in Grapevine, Texas. Despite being denied NASA astronaut status in the 1960s due to gender restrictions, she never gave up her space dream and became the oldest woman in space at age 82...
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Amazon Has Enough Satellites to Launch Starlink Rival
Amazon's satellite constellation, Amazon Leo, has reached 396 deployed satellites, enough to begin initial service and stay on track for a "mid-2026" commercial launch, though early performance will be limited. Early users should expect a gradual improvement in service, similar to Starlink's init...
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Ars Live: New Glenn catastrophe aftermath update
The New Glenn rocket's explosion destroyed its only launch complex, LC-36A, leaving Blue Origin without a viable launch platform and casting serious doubt on its ambitious goal to resume flights by the end of this year. The failure has raised significant uncertainty for NASA’s Artemis Program, pa...
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Inside Elon Musk’s plan to take over American broadband
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded during a critical hot-fire test on May 28th, destroying the first shipment of Amazon Leo satellites intended for a Biden-era funded satellite internet initiative to close America's digital divide. The explosion represents a dramatic setback for Jeff Bezos' ...
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Amazon’s rocket gamble pays off only in Europe
Amazon has hundreds of completed satellites stored in Florida, awaiting launch to expand its low-Earth orbit Internet constellation, while continuing to manufacture several satellites daily. The company’s next mission will launch 36 satellites on an Ariane 64 rocket from French Guiana, with Arian...
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Safety Officials Assess Rocket Explosion Risks in New Study
The New Glenn rocket explosion, while a setback, provided critical real-world data on the destructive potential of methane and liquid oxygen fuels, which is vital for safety planning as the Space Coast prepares for a surge in launch activity. Cape Canaveral is undergoing a major infrastructure sh...
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NASA Advances Moon Base Plans with Perimeter Discussions
NASA has awarded contracts to Astrolab and Lunar Outpost to build one-ton rovers for its Moon Base initiative, with delivery scheduled for 2028, each capable of traveling 200 kilometers autonomously or being driven by astronauts. Blue Origin will deliver the rovers separately to the lunar surface...
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Virgin Galactic unveils new ship amid cash and time crunch
Virgin Galactic revealed its next-generation spaceship being towed outside its factory in Arizona, signaling continued progress despite shifting focus from its VSS Unity spacecraft to a new vehicle for more frequent and lower-cost flights. After a long development phase and commercial flights beg...
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Blue Origin Sets Ambitious Launch Targets for New Glenn
Blue Origin is scaling up production of its New Glenn rocket's upgraded "Quattro" upper stage, aiming to produce 60 second stages per year by late 2028 and 100 per year by 2029, a massive increase from the current rate. The Quattro project involves a more powerful upper stage with four BE-3U engi...
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Starship V3 Test-Fired; ESA Advances Crew Launch Plans
The Artemis II mission's momentum is shifting focus to lunar lander development, with key updates on contractors and global launch technologies. Israel's Moonshot Space plans to build its first electromagnetic accelerator in Alaska, aiming to launch payloads at hypersonic speeds using electricity...
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Jeff Bezos vs. China in Race to Shackleton Crater
A high-stakes competition begins later this year, with Blue Origin and China targeting the lunar south pole's Shackleton Crater for its valuable water ice deposits. Blue Origin's Endurance lander, the largest in history, will launch on a New Glenn rocket, while China's complex Chang'e 7 mission i...
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Jeff Bezos Envisions a Trillion-Person Solar System
Jeff Bezos envisions a future with a trillion humans thriving across the solar system, enabled by massive scale and the use of extraterrestrial resources. He argues this expansion is necessary because planetary surfaces are too limited, advocating instead for the construction of giant, rotating s...
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Jeff Bezos Enters the Orbital Data Center Race
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin has entered the orbital data center race with "Project Sunrise," a proposal for a massive satellite constellation to establish space-based computing hubs for AI. The company argues space-based data centers are necessary to overcome terrestrial limitations like land and en...
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NASA Investigates New Rocket Fuel Explosions
Major aerospace companies are shifting to methane as the primary rocket fuel for future reusable launch systems, due to its cleaner combustion and practical storage advantages over traditional propellants. Leading this transition are engines like SpaceX's Raptor and Blue Origin's BE-4, which powe...
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FCC Chair Slams Amazon Over SpaceX Constellation Criticism
The FCC is the key regulatory battleground for satellite companies, with a public dispute intensifying between SpaceX and Amazon over SpaceX's proposal to launch up to one million satellites. Amazon has petitioned the FCC to reject SpaceX's plan, calling it unrealistic and arguing that deployment...
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NASA's Artemis Rocket Shuffle: What's Next for Lunar Landers?
NASA's Artemis program is accelerating its lunar exploration timeline by increasing SLS rocket launch frequency and prioritizing surface operations, though the readiness of essential human landing systems remains a critical uncertainty. The agency is relying on SpaceX and Blue Origin to develop l...
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Blue Origin's TeraWave Aims for 6 Terabit Satellite Internet
Blue Origin's TeraWave satellite network is a high-capacity, enterprise-focused system promising up to 6 terabits per second of bandwidth, targeting a niche of roughly 100,000 major clients like governments and data centers. The network features an ambitious multi-orbit design with 5,408 opticall...
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Plans New Megaconstellation
Blue Origin's new TeraWave project is a megaconstellation of over 5,000 satellites designed to deliver ultra-high-speed global data connectivity, with speeds up to 6 terabits per second. The system exclusively targets enterprise clients like corporations and governments, focusing on ultra-reliabl...
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Blue Origin's TeraWave to Deliver 6Tbps Satellite Internet
Blue Origin has announced **TeraWave**, a new high-capacity satellite internet network designed to deliver up to **6 terabits per second** for enterprise, government, and data center clients, not general consumers. The network will use a two-tiered architecture of **5,280 LEO satellites** for RF ...
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