Spacex And Blue Origin
- All
- News
- Videos
-
Blue Origin Assembles New Glenn Rocket for Upcoming Maiden Flight in November
Blue Origin has successfully joined the first and second stages of its New Glenn rocket in preparation for its first launch. Set for November 2024, the rocket will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The inaugural flight will carry the Blue Ring spacecraft for a National Security Space Launch certification mission. Blue Origin’s reusa...
-
SpaceX Plans To Develop 'Marslink' Network To Provide Internet On Mars
SpaceX has introduced a Marslink concept, a satellite-based communication network around Mars, to support interplanetary data exchange for future Mars missions. NASA reviewed this and other proposals, including Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital tug and Lockheed Martin's MAVEN-based network. The Marslink network would build on SpaceX’s Starlink tech...
-
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Moves Closer to First Orbital Launch After Successful Second-Stage Hot Fire Test
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully completed a crucial second-stage hot fire test ahead of its first orbital launch in November. The test confirmed the smooth interaction between key subsystems and validated the performance of its two BE-3U engines. New Glenn’s maiden mission will transport the Blue Ring orbital platform into space, ma...
-
Amazon Board Sued by Shareholder Over Blue Origin Launch Contracts for Project Kuiper
An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit against founder Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board alleging directors failed to fully vet a decision to award launch contracts for the company's Project Kuiper satellite project to Blue Origin, Bezos's space company. The lawsuit claims that the Amazon board did not consider rival Elon Musk-owned SpaceX as an a...
-
NASA Partners With Blue Origin to Build Spacecraft for Moon Mission
A team led by Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin won a coveted NASA contract to build a spacecraft that will send astronauts to and from the moon's surface, NASA's chief announced on Friday, capping a high-stakes contest. NASA's decision will give the agency a second ride to the moon under its Artemis program, after it awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX...
-
Elon Musk's SpaceX Raising $750 Million in Fresh Round of Funding at $137 Billion Valuation: Report
SpaceX is reportedly set to raise $750 million (roughly Rs. 6,200 crore) in a fresh funding round that will value Elon Musk's rocket and satellite internet firm at $137 billion (roughly Rs. 11,33,800 crore). The funding comes from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, who was a co-investor in Musk's Twitter takeover deal. The firm had raised abo...
-
Growth in Space Tourism Can Take Toll on Climate, Finds Study
A recent study has concluded that rocket launches are taking a larger toll on the climate like no other. Using a 3D model to explore the impact of rocket launches and re-entry in 2019, the team stated the “impact of projected space tourism scenarios is based on the recent billionaire space race.”
-
General Motors And Lockheed Are Developing Car Rental Service For The Moon
General Motors and Lockheed Martin have said that they could develop a whole lineup of vehicles for work on the Moon and that these could be available to commercial space companies - like SpaceX and Blue Origin - as well and not just NASA.
-
Bezos' Blue Origin Said to Have Completed Fifth Crewed Flight Launch
Jeff Bezos' space tourism venture Blue Origin completed its fifth crewed launch on Saturday after a New Shepard rocket's back-up system that had not met expectations delayed the voyage last month. Blue Origin's fourth flight landed successfully in March in west Texas after taking six passengers for a 10-minute journey to the edge of space.
-
Elon Musk Advises Jeff Bezos to Spend Energy on Reaching Orbit Than Filing Lawsuits as Space Rivalry Heats Up
Elon Musk in a recent interview took a fresh dig at Jeff Bezos saying that he should focus on reaching the orbit rather than filing lawsuits. Musk's comments were about Bezos' Blue Origin filing a case to block SpaceX's NASA moon lander contract.
-
Such A Polite Elon Musk-Jeff Bezos Exchange. If Only It Was Like This All The Time
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has congratulated Elon Musk after the successful launch of SpaceX's all-civilian Inspiration4 crew.
-
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Announces Space Startup Privateer
After Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson, it's time for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to join the league. Wozniak on September 13 announced that he is setting up a private space company that is “unlike the others.” The new company will be called Privateer Space and its mission would be to keep space safe and accessible to all humankind...
-
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Doesn’t Believe Regulations Apply to Him, Amazon Tells US FCC
Amazon told US regulators that Elon Musk does not believe government regulations apply to the billionaire who heads Tesla and SpaceX as the companies spar over rival satellite-based Internet plans.
-
Elon Musk Takes a Dig at Jeff Bezos on Twitter, Says Blue Origin Founder Investing in 'Shady Lobbyists'
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken a swipe at Bezos' Blue Origin for hiring a high-profile strategic advisory firm after it lost a $2.9 billion (roughly Rs. 21,540 crores) NASA lunar lander contract to SpaceX. Without naming Bezos, Musk said the billionaire should “consider spending some money” on actual lunar lander hardware, instead of “shady l...
-
Blue Origin Protest Over NASA Lunar Contract Rejected by US Watchdog
A US government watchdog sided with NASA over its decision to pick a single lunar lander provider, rejecting a protest filed by Blue Origin and defence contractor Dynetics.
-
Blue Origin Assembles New Glenn Rocket for Upcoming Maiden Flight in November
Blue Origin has successfully joined the first and second stages of its New Glenn rocket in preparation for its first launch. Set for November 2024, the rocket will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The inaugural flight will carry the Blue Ring spacecraft for a National Security Space Launch certification mission. Blue Origin’s reusa...
-
SpaceX Plans To Develop 'Marslink' Network To Provide Internet On Mars
SpaceX has introduced a Marslink concept, a satellite-based communication network around Mars, to support interplanetary data exchange for future Mars missions. NASA reviewed this and other proposals, including Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital tug and Lockheed Martin's MAVEN-based network. The Marslink network would build on SpaceX’s Starlink tech...
-
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Moves Closer to First Orbital Launch After Successful Second-Stage Hot Fire Test
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully completed a crucial second-stage hot fire test ahead of its first orbital launch in November. The test confirmed the smooth interaction between key subsystems and validated the performance of its two BE-3U engines. New Glenn’s maiden mission will transport the Blue Ring orbital platform into space, ma...
-
Amazon Board Sued by Shareholder Over Blue Origin Launch Contracts for Project Kuiper
An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit against founder Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board alleging directors failed to fully vet a decision to award launch contracts for the company's Project Kuiper satellite project to Blue Origin, Bezos's space company. The lawsuit claims that the Amazon board did not consider rival Elon Musk-owned SpaceX as an a...
-
NASA Partners With Blue Origin to Build Spacecraft for Moon Mission
A team led by Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin won a coveted NASA contract to build a spacecraft that will send astronauts to and from the moon's surface, NASA's chief announced on Friday, capping a high-stakes contest. NASA's decision will give the agency a second ride to the moon under its Artemis program, after it awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX...
-
Elon Musk's SpaceX Raising $750 Million in Fresh Round of Funding at $137 Billion Valuation: Report
SpaceX is reportedly set to raise $750 million (roughly Rs. 6,200 crore) in a fresh funding round that will value Elon Musk's rocket and satellite internet firm at $137 billion (roughly Rs. 11,33,800 crore). The funding comes from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, who was a co-investor in Musk's Twitter takeover deal. The firm had raised abo...
-
Growth in Space Tourism Can Take Toll on Climate, Finds Study
A recent study has concluded that rocket launches are taking a larger toll on the climate like no other. Using a 3D model to explore the impact of rocket launches and re-entry in 2019, the team stated the “impact of projected space tourism scenarios is based on the recent billionaire space race.”
-
General Motors And Lockheed Are Developing Car Rental Service For The Moon
General Motors and Lockheed Martin have said that they could develop a whole lineup of vehicles for work on the Moon and that these could be available to commercial space companies - like SpaceX and Blue Origin - as well and not just NASA.
-
Bezos' Blue Origin Said to Have Completed Fifth Crewed Flight Launch
Jeff Bezos' space tourism venture Blue Origin completed its fifth crewed launch on Saturday after a New Shepard rocket's back-up system that had not met expectations delayed the voyage last month. Blue Origin's fourth flight landed successfully in March in west Texas after taking six passengers for a 10-minute journey to the edge of space.
-
Elon Musk Advises Jeff Bezos to Spend Energy on Reaching Orbit Than Filing Lawsuits as Space Rivalry Heats Up
Elon Musk in a recent interview took a fresh dig at Jeff Bezos saying that he should focus on reaching the orbit rather than filing lawsuits. Musk's comments were about Bezos' Blue Origin filing a case to block SpaceX's NASA moon lander contract.
-
Such A Polite Elon Musk-Jeff Bezos Exchange. If Only It Was Like This All The Time
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has congratulated Elon Musk after the successful launch of SpaceX's all-civilian Inspiration4 crew.
-
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Announces Space Startup Privateer
After Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson, it's time for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to join the league. Wozniak on September 13 announced that he is setting up a private space company that is “unlike the others.” The new company will be called Privateer Space and its mission would be to keep space safe and accessible to all humankind...
-
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Doesn’t Believe Regulations Apply to Him, Amazon Tells US FCC
Amazon told US regulators that Elon Musk does not believe government regulations apply to the billionaire who heads Tesla and SpaceX as the companies spar over rival satellite-based Internet plans.
-
Elon Musk Takes a Dig at Jeff Bezos on Twitter, Says Blue Origin Founder Investing in 'Shady Lobbyists'
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken a swipe at Bezos' Blue Origin for hiring a high-profile strategic advisory firm after it lost a $2.9 billion (roughly Rs. 21,540 crores) NASA lunar lander contract to SpaceX. Without naming Bezos, Musk said the billionaire should “consider spending some money” on actual lunar lander hardware, instead of “shady l...
-
Blue Origin Protest Over NASA Lunar Contract Rejected by US Watchdog
A US government watchdog sided with NASA over its decision to pick a single lunar lander provider, rejecting a protest filed by Blue Origin and defence contractor Dynetics.
