A test flight of a new propulsion module version of Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle took place at 1659 GMT on 12 December. The “Mission 7” flight which did not quite hit 100 km (99.4 km achieved), thus would not be technically be counted as...
The US Department of Defense has made this announcement on behalf of the US Air Force: “Space Exploration Technologies Corp, Hawthorne, California, has been awarded a $40,766,512 modification (P00007) for the development of the Raptor rocket propulsion system...
The Thailand-based start-up satellite communications and would-be space tourism firm, mu Space Corp, has announced at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2017), Adelaide, Australia, that it has booked a ride on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket for the...
The Blue Origin programme to develop the new BE-4 Methane/Liquid Oxygen burning rocket engine for the reusable first stage of its proposed New Glenn vehicle range had a major set back on 13 May when a key test of its major components ended in explosive failure. The...
Blue Origin took the opportunity in April’s Space Symposium event in Colorado to show off its New Shepard “space tourist” carrying capsule (named after NASA’s first suborbital astronaut) with which it plans to begin suborbital manned test...
While SpaceX concentrates on making its partly reusable rocket even more low cost, by dint of recovering the payload fairing using control thrusters and parachutes, it has even grander ambitions. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has apparently decided to resuscitate his plan...
