Blue Origin, a space company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, used a capsule with updated crew systems during the company's 14th mission with the New Shepard rocket. The updated capsule featured new push-to-talk communications systems, noise reduction tools, cushioned wall linings, environmental systems and a crew alert system, Blue Origin said Thursday.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Concludes Kerosene-Based Rocket Engine Assembly
Aerojet Rocketdyne has wrapped up the construction of an oxygen-rich staged combustion kerosene engine funded by the U.S. Air Force, and is now looking to test its first rocket motor, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
Read More »Lockheed VP Lisa Callahan: Lunar Lander Work With Blue Origin in Progress
Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager of commercial civil space at Lockheed Martin, has provided an update on the company's partnership with Blue Origin for the development of a new system that would help astronauts land on the lunar surface, TechCrunch reported Friday.
Read More »Tory Bruno: ULA’s Vulcan Centaur Ready for Debut Flight in Late 2021
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance and a previous Wash100 awardee, said ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket will be on the launch pad for its maiden flight by the end of 2021, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
Read More »Blue Origin Continues Testing of BE-7 Lunar Lander Engine Ahead of Artemis Mission
Blue Origin has commenced the latest series of assessments for the company's BE-7 engine that will power a human landing system for the Artemis mission to the moon.
Read More »Blue Origin Names Seven Advisory Board Members
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture has appointed seven government and industry veterans to its newly formed board of advisers that will counsel the firm's leadership team on space business matters.
Read More »NASA Adds Virgin Galactic, Masten to Payload Flight IDIQ
NASA has added Virgin Galactic and Masten Space Systems as awardees on a $45M multiple-award contract to help the agency test payloads on suborbital reusable launch vehicles as part of the Flight Opportunities program.
Read More »Sally Richardson: Northrop Prepares for Upcoming Reviews of Human Landing System’s Transfer Element
Sally Richardson, program director for the Human Landing System at Northrop Grumman, said the company completed on Oct. 8 a system readiness review of the HLS' transfer element and is preparing for two more assessments in December and January, NASASpaceflight reported Friday.
Read More »Blue Origin Eyes Lunar Cargo Delivery Services in 2023; Steve Squyres Quoted
Blue Origin plans to offer cargo delivery services to the moon by 2023 as the company develops a landing system for NASA’s crewed mission to the lunar surface, GeekWire reported Friday.
Read More »Blue Origin Wants USAF to Continue Support to Rocket Development; Megan Mitchell Quoted
Blue Origin is working to convince the U.S. Air Force to continue to fund the development of the New Glenn rocket in order to get it certified to perform national security missions, SpaceNews reported Monday. “We’re discussing with the Air Force the path forward for certification,” said Megan Mitchell, director of government and legislative affairs at Blue Origin.
Read More »Blue Origin’s New Shepard Rocket Carries Two APL Experiments for Suborbital Detection, Tracking
Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle has launched two Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory experiments as part of an effort to assess the capacity of commercial technologies for suborbital tracking.
Read More »Blue Origin Begins Search for Orbital Habitat Formulation Lead
Blue Origin posted a job vacancy for an Orbital Habitat Formulation Lead to oversee the development of commercial space stations in low-Earth orbit, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
Read More »Dynetics Team Builds Lunar Lander Model for NASA’s Artemis Program
Dynetics has produced a full-size mockup of its human landing system three months after the Leidos subsidiary received a design and development contract to support NASA's Artemis moon mission.
Read More »Blue Origin-Led Industry Team Concludes System Req’s Review for Human Landing System Concept
A Blue Origin-led team has completed an assessment of system requirements for an integrated landing platform intended to support NASA's Artemis mission to the moon.
Read More »NASA Receives Full-Scale Mockup of Blue Origin-Led National Team’s Human Landing System
A Blue Origin-led team has handed over to NASA an engineering mockup of a human landing system that could bring astronauts to the lunar surface. Blue Origin was one of the three prime contractors tapped by NASA in late April to develop a landing platform in support of the agency’s Artemis moon mission in 2024 and the company said Thursday that it works with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper as part of the HLS National Team.
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