The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is the main space conference of the world because it allows space agencies to come together, exchange policy and mission ideas, present new technology and findings, and even sign international agreements. It already...
On a recent suborbital Blue Origin flight, six more people gained the credentials to call themselves astronauts (or, more accurately, space travellers). However, the moment was of especial importance for one passenger, who had waited 63 years to reach space. Ed Dwight...
While Blue Origin’s aspirations of flying regularly have not yet come to pass given the one year hiatus after the nozzle induced-destruction of the uncrewed New Shepard NS-23 flight, it at least has now taken a step forward after a successful reflight at 1642...
The Jeff Bezos-founded launch company Blue Origin may have yet to achieve orbit with its New Glenn rocket series but its new In-Space Systems division has unveiled Blue Ring, a spacecraft platform focused on providing in-space logistics and delivery. The Blue Ring...
Having lost out in the competition to produce NASA’s initial lunar lander for its Human Landing System (HLS), Blue Origin’s National Team celebrated the award of a contract for a second lander design under the agency’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar...
Blue Origin has noted the failure mechanism which doomed the unmanned flight New Shepard NS-23 suborbital spacecraft. After its lift off at 1401 GMT on 12 September 2022 at T+ 1 minute 5 seconds the New Shepard booster (NS Propulsion Module Tail 3) suffered an...
