Blue Origin

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.

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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.

Blue Origin is turning to outside expertise to jump-start a ground communications and operations network, named Quartz.

Blue Origin’s revamp of Launch Complex-36 at Cape Canaveral SFS will turn the site into a dual-pad design that can support the company’s two planned New Glenn heavy-lift vehicle variants.

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

Blue Origin is looking to parlay U.S. national security and other customers’ interest in in-space mobility, logistics, communications and computing into a variety of in-space services and infrastructure.

Blue Origin says the cause of the New Glenn rocket explosion in May has been traced to the main oxygen valve on one of the booster’s seven main engines.

Blue Origin is shifting hot-fire testing of its New Glenn upper stage engines to NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

Pioneering astronaut Eileen Collins pays tribute to a pioneering aviator who opened the door for female flyers.

As part of the upcoming Artemis III flight test, NASA plans to outfit its crewed Orion spacecraft with two mini lasers to connect with SpaceX’s Starlink network.

The U.S. Space Force intends to award launch task orders that will begin filling out new constellations for the Space Data Network and space-based air moving target indication (AMTI) by the end of fiscal 2026.

Blue Origin says it has cleared all the debris from the botched preflight hotfire test that destroyed a New Glenn rocket and has started rebuilding its severely damaged launchpad.

The U.S. Space Force began the overhaul of one of its most storied launchpads with a sizable bang on June 16.

NASA faces significant challenges in successfully transitioning crewed operations aboard the International Space Station to commercial successors.

The root cause for the failed New Glenn flight 4 static-fire test has yet to be disclosed, but one metric stands out: 7,174 ft.

The root cause of Blue Origin’s failed New Glenn Flight 4 (NG-4) static fire test has yet to be disclosed, but one metric stands out: 7,174.