Massive. Enormous. Huge. Gigantic. And whatever other words you find in the thesaurus all do the job when it comes to describing Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket. Especially its nosecone. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-blue-glenn-rocket-gigantic-nose.html…
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Robert Cringely Attempts an Air-Launching Space Startup
“How does a 67-year-old hack with three minor children recover from going blind, losing his home and business in a horrible fire (like 2,000 others, we are still fighting with insurance companies), while appeasing an angry crowd of Kickstarter supporters armed with pitchforks and shovels?” That crowd still wants long-time tech pundit Robert X. Cringely to deliver on his Kickstarter-funded project…
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket makes 12th test flight
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, launched the 12th crewless test of its New Shepard rocket on Wednesday, pushing the first flights with passengers to 2020. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-jeff-bezos-blue-rocket-12th.html…
Jeff Bezos’ Plan to Save Earth? ‘Move All Heavy Industry into Space’
The world’s richest man made some interesting remarks Saturday when he became one of eight inductees into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame for founding the spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. The Times of San Diego reports:
He described the origins of his space infatuation. Bezos said he told his high school paper he wanted to start a…
Blue Origin, US aerospace giants team up for lunar landing contract
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the richest man in the world, announced Tuesday a partnership with three of the biggest names in aerospace to bid on a NASA contract for a Moon lander. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-blue-aerospace-giants-team-lunar.html…
Blue Origin assembles space industry dream team to build moon lander
Jeff Bezos’ space flight company Blue Origin has announced three established companies from the space industry as partners for its 2024 lunar lander Blue Moon Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220765-blue-origin-assembles-space-industry-dream-team-to-build-moon-lander/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Startup That Aims To 3D-Print Rockets Says It’s Fully Funded For Its First Commercial Missions
Aerospace startup Relativity Space — the company that aims to launch the first fully 3D-printed rocket to orbit — says it has raised all of the money it needs to launch its first mission and then enter commercial operations as early as 2021. After raising $140 million in its latest funding round, Relativity says its total funding now equals $185 million,…
Musk and Bezos’ Satellite Internet Could Save Consumers Billions of Dollars
“The fight for space internet supremacy is on,” writes the consumer policy expert at BroadbandNow, calculating the benefits of these additional broadband competitors:
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites for broadband internet access are beginning to display signs of real potential. Recently, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin pulled back the curtain on its space intentions by announcing Project Kuiper, a 3,236-satellite constellation….
US Govt Considers Changing Requirements for Rocket Launches. Commercial Space Group Objects
Long-time Slashdot reader apoc.famine writes: In a proposed change to the licensing of spaceflight operations, the FAA writes: “This action would fundamentally change how the FAA licenses launches and reentries…by proposing a regulatory approach that relies on performance-based regulations rather than prescriptive regulations…..This action would also enable flexible timeframes, remove unnecessary ground safety regulations, redefine when launch begins to allow specified…
NASA’s Lunar Space Station Might Be a Boondoggle
“NASA’s orbiting Lunar Gateway is either essential for a moon landing or a boondoggle in the making,” writes IEEE Spectrum. the_newsbeagle writes: NASA is under pressure to put humans back on the moon by 2024… NASA’s plan for meeting that ambitious target relies on building a space station in lunar orbit, called the Gateway. NASA says it will use its (over…