Blue Origin

Blue Origin announced a third stage for the New Glenn rocket for space access beyond geostationary orbit and a second, more powerful booster engine called Northstar.

NASA's lunar landing training program focuses on managing mental overload, sensory miscues and communications during risky vertical flight profiles.

Google’s Suncatcher satellite sent its first artificial intelligence (AI)-generated response back to Earth after initial commissioning and tests.

NASA prepares to practice integrated flight operations with Blue Origin and SpaceX.

Launch capacity scarcity is forcing space operators toward costly dedicated rockets as SpaceX indicates plans to wind down Falcon 9 rideshare flights after 2028.

Blue Origin installed the final segment of a new 430-ft. tower to support launches of New Glenn rockets from Cape Canaveral SFS Space Launch Complex 36.

A NASA panel on Oct. 22 expressed evolving concerns about the lunar Human Landing System and the establishment of commercial low-Earth-orbit successors to the International Space Station.

20 Twenties winner Jocelino Rodrigues helped open NASA’s mARC II plasma wind tunnel to SpaceX and Blue Origin, developed a draft ASTM standard and mentors future engineers.

Blue Origin says it is investing another $330 million to boost manufacturing capabilities in Florida.

A pioneering mission to study a pair of Martian moons and return a 10-gram soil sample to Earth is being prepared for launch Oct. 19 from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center.

Amid transportation uncertainties, NASA offers to remain travel broker for aspiring space station operators.

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Space executives suggest a lack of regulations may be hindering progress, particularly around manufacturing standards, insurance frameworks and orbital traffic management.

Companies vying to win NASA funding to build a successor to the International Space Station cite schedule and budget uncertainties.

The FAA on Sept. 29 posted its draft environmental assessment of a Blue Origin proposal to boost New Glenn launch rates from Cape Canaveral SFS from 12 to 50 flights per year.

Belgium is headed to the lunar surface with Space Applications Services disclosing plans for its 2029 mission to the south pole of the Moon.

NASA has halted work on the Mars Telecommunications Network contract following a bidder’s protest over the award to Blue Origin.

Rocket Lab is challenging NASA’s award of the Mars Telecommunications Network program to Blue Origin, arguing the agency’s source selection was faulty.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

NASA has added Relatively Space’s Terran R rocket to its list of potential launch service providers for certain missions, enabling the launch startup to compete for actual contracts.

If you really know your stuff In the space race for reusable launch vehicles, there is Stoke Space.

The U.S. Space Force’s vendor pool for the nascent space-based air moving target indicator (SB-AMTI) program is now up to 12 companies.

NASA has selected Blue Origin's Blue Ring platform as a telecommunications orbiter to support Mars missions, with service to begin by the end of 2028.

Blue Origin begins construction of Cape Canaveral payload facility supporting National Security Space Launch and commercial missions.

United Launch Alliance has promoted Chief Operating Officer Mark Peller to president and CEO, succeeding Tory Bruno, who left ULA in December.