January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
..., additional capital investment was offered by Northrop Grumman. Perhaps the opposite extreme to the Northrop Grumman proposal is Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef space station with its large and growing number of partners and its significant design...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...describe his feelings to Jeff Bezos after his brief spaceflight in Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-18: “Everybody in the world needs to do this...series and (right) taking a real trip into space with Blue Origin on 13 October 2021. At the age of 90, Shatner...
25 November 2015
Historic landing for private rocket company Blue Origin
..., putting the company in direct competition with SpaceX. “Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard space vehicle flew a flawless mission—...the centre of the pad,” said Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin. To watch a video of the launch click here www....
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
...’s recent attempts to raise money in the face of a rapid decline in launch demand allied with increasing competition from Blue Origin, which doesn’t need to make a profit. Firstly, SpaceX reportedly fired its bankers at Goldman Sachs because they...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... interplay between space technologies and applications and their terrestrial counterparts. The endeavours of companies such as Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic symbolise the increasing growth of the commercial space sector, an industry segment...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... national space agencies is now experiencing a flourish of innovation led by entrepreneurial private sector companies such as Blue Origin, SpaceX and Stratolaunch Systems. Competition between these companies, together with their focus on increasing...
