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Blue Origin's First All-Female Crew Completes New Shepard Suborbital Flight

Blue Origin has successfully launched and safely returned the first all-female crew aboard the New Shepard rocket. The mission featured six women, including pop star Katy Perry, reaching the edge of space and marking a milestone in space tourism and gender representation.

2025-04-14T06:44:05.736896-07:00

Reuters

Amazon to Launch Initial Kuiper Satellites on April 9

2025-04-02T11:51:07.237734-07:00

Reuters

SpaceX and ULA Poised to Secure Multi-Billion Dollar U.S. Space Force Contracts

2025-04-04T13:59:08.539091-07:00

SpaceWatch Global

US Space Force Awards $13.7B in Launch Contracts to SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin

2025-04-07T04:33:11.233217-07:00

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Blue Origin's Blue Alchemist clears critical design review, advancing lunar resource‑utilization infrastructure Kent‑based Blue Origin said its in‑space resource‑utilization system, Blue Alchemist, has completed a critical design review, a milestone the company calls transformative for developing sustainable lunar infrastructure. The CDR moves the program into detailed engineering and validation.

2025-09-11T16:02:54.335629-07:00

Blue Origin's Blue Alchemist clears critical design review, advancing lunar resource‑utilization infrastructure

TechCrunch

Blue Origin and Anduril win Pentagon studies to return cargo from orbit to Earth The Pentagon awarded sub-$1 million feasibility studies to Blue Origin and Anduril to assess reusable rockets and orbital transfer vehicles for returning cargo from low Earth orbit to precise locations on Earth, targeting rapid point-to-point deliveries and solutions for re-entry and precision-landing for U.S. forces.

2025-08-21T15:14:39.096862-07:00

Blue Origin and Anduril win Pentagon studies to return cargo from orbit to Earth

Space.com

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Blue Origin delays second New Glenn launch to Sept. 29, will carry NASA Mars probes Blue Origin has pushed the second launch of its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket to no earlier than Sept. 29, when it is scheduled to deploy NASA’s twin ESCAPADE Mars probes on the vehicle’s first interplanetary mission.

2025-08-15T14:08:01.192664-07:00

Blue Origin delays second New Glenn launch to Sept. 29, will carry NASA Mars probes

GeekWire

NASA Selects Six Firms for Low-Cost Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies NASA has tapped six companies—including Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Rocket Lab and Arrow Science & Technology—to conduct studies of low-cost orbital transfer vehicles designed to deliver payloads to hard-to-reach orbits. The contracts aim to identify scalable OTV architectures capable of carrying various spacecraft sizes and forms to multiple orbital regimes.

2025-08-05T19:31:24.424813-07:00

NASA Selects Six Firms for Low-Cost Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies

SpaceNews.com

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Blue Origin NS-34 Carries Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun on 14th New Shepard Spaceflight Blue Origin lifted off its New Shepard NS-34 from West Texas at 8:43 a.m. ET Sunday, carrying crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and five passengers on a 10-minute suborbital hop. The flight, New Shepard's 14th human mission and 34th overall, delivered the 75th person into space.

2025-08-03T07:30:23.755875-07:00

Blue Origin NS-34 Carries Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun on 14th New Shepard Spaceflight

Defense Daily

Scout Space’s Owl Sensor to Support U.S. Space Force SDA Mission on Blue Origin’s Blue Ring Launch Scout Space will fly its Owl optical sensor on Blue Origin’s maneuverable Blue Ring smallsat next spring, marking its first flight demonstration under contract with the U.S. Space Force. The payload is designed to detect, characterize and track orbital objects to enhance space domain awareness in low Earth orbit.

2025-07-24T12:43:26.585070-07:00

Scout Space’s Owl Sensor to Support U.S. Space Force SDA Mission on Blue Origin’s Blue Ring Launch

Space.com

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NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars Smallsats Set for New Glenn’s Second Flight as Soon as Aug. 15 NASA will launch its two ESCAPADE Mars probes aboard Blue Origin’s heavy-lift New Glenn rocket on its second mission as soon as Aug. 15, marking the vehicle’s first interplanetary payload and a key advance for NASA’s smallsat exploration technologies.

2025-07-19T05:06:26.044874-07:00

NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars Smallsats Set for New Glenn’s Second Flight as Soon as Aug. 15

Space.com

Blue Origin flies six tourists, including space’s 750th traveler, on 13th crewed New Shepard mission Blue Origin on June 29 launched a reusable New Shepard booster from its West Texas site, carrying six paying passengers – including the 750th person ever to fly to space – on a 10-minute suborbital trip. It marks the 13th crewed flight and third in under three months.

2025-06-29T08:14:41.507150-07:00

Blue Origin flies six tourists, including space’s 750th traveler, on 13th crewed New Shepard mission

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