31 July 2020
Amazon's Kuiper mega constellation gets FCC approval
... or what launch vehicle they would use to reach orbit, but the billionaire also owns launch company Blue Origin. Its New Glenn orbital rocket is slated for a first launch in 2021.
02 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
... same time the agency has paused work on the Human Landing System for Artemis 3 to address a lawsuit by Blue Origin. In a statement to Ars Technica, a NASA spokesperson cited both COVID-19 and “weather” as affecting the schedule - apparent references...
15 September 2021
SpaceX ready to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
... the International Space Station (ISS). This is significantly further than the spaceflights offered by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, which settle for the Kármán line; an imaginary border 100 kilometres (62 miles) above Earth's mean sea level...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX to start development. The award was quickly contested by rival bidders of the contract, Blue Origin, first to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and then to Court of Federal Claims. It lost both times, but...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... a new martian rover, sampling asteroid material and moon dust, the first crewed suborbital flights for Blue Origin and the first all-civilian crew to fly with SpaceX, the construction of a new Chinese space station...
30 May 2023
Virgin Orbit cuts its losses and ceases operations
... into sub-orbital flight in 2021, just nine days ahead of his billionaire rival, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. Virgin Orbit spun out on its own from Galactic in 2017 and, in late 2021...
