Topic: blue origin
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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