Blue Origin

Blue Origin is targeting 2:45 p.m. EST Nov. 9 for the second launch of its New Glenn rocket, with an eye on repeating the booster’s successful debut in January.

There is serious interest in orbiting data centers for artificial intelligence.

Blue Origin fired up the seven engines on its New Glenn rocket late Oct. 30, clearing one of the last milestones ahead of the company's second orbital launch.

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket has reached its Cape Canaveral SFS launchpad in preparation for a static hot-fire ahead of the company's second orbital launch.

An ex-NASA administrator has urged the U.S. to maintain a permanent human presence in low Earth orbit after the end of the International Space Station.

SpaceX's Starship Human Landing System development is behind schedule.

Stoke Space has raised $510 million in a Series D funding round led by US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT).

The defense prime sees new business opportunities for NASA’s deep-space capsule.

Liftoff of New Shepard with six international crewmembers took place under a partly cloudy sky at Launch Site One near Van Horn in West Texas at 9:40 a.m. EDT.

Blue Origin will build a new payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, under a U.S. Space Force contract announced Oct. 7.

The U.S. Space Force has assigned five future missions to SpaceX and two missions to United Launch Alliance (ULA).

Jeff Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon.com and founder of Blue Origin, foresees gigawatt data centers orbiting Earth in the coming decades.

Blue Origin plans to launch a lunar resource mapping spacecraft to help identify opportunities to exploit materials available on the Moon.

Blue Origin is developing three new suborbital New Shepard launch systems and mulling expanding flight services beyond West Texas, the company said Sept. 28.

Blue Origin has delayed plans for its New Glenn rocket to return to the launchpad.

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Voyager Technologies has contracted Vivace Corp. to manufacture the primary structure of the Starlab commercial space station.

Launch service providers are promising higher flight cadences—again.

NASA has awarded Blue Origin a task order worth up to $190 million to deliver its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover to the Moon's surface.

Amazon is preparing its fifth batch of Kuiper broadband satellites for launch next week.

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After 25 travel plan changes, the Escapade spacecraft are being prepared for a fall liftoff.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has issued two study contracts this month related to its Rocket Cargo vision to speedily transport equipment around the globe using commercial launch vehicles.

Blue Origin has delayed the opening of the launch window for its second New Glenn rocket to no earlier than Sept. 29.

Blue Origin will offer a variant of its Blue Ring in-space platform to serve as a Mars telecommunications orbiter for NASA.