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Rocket Dungeon: Blue Origin quietly marches forward (2009-11-23)

Clark Lindsey reports that Blue Origin has selected four research payloads for their New Shepard suborbital vehicle. [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Rocket math, G-2 on Blue Origin, the retro Air Launched Sortie Vehicle, and a Xombie attack x 4 (2010-02-22)

From around the blogaverse... Clark Lindsey provides a link to a Selenian Boondocks article where the blogger uses some rocket math to show why single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) is difficult.  My ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Blue Origin flies, and rains fire on the desert (2011-09-02)

Parabolic Arc posted comments and photos from Jeff Bezos about Blue Origin's recent flight activities.  Three months ago they had a successful 'short hop' liftoff and landing flight and, last ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin suffers setback (2011-09-03)

First reported by the Wall Street Journal, Blue Origin lost a spacecraft on August 24th. According to the reports the craft had to be destroyed after control was lost after the craft surpassed Mach ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: New Blue Origin videos surface (2011-11-21)

Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin endevour are the quiet participants in the commercial space race. These just release videos of the “New Shepard” suborbital vehicle test flights are really ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Is Blue Origin working on a crew capsule? (2012-09-09)

    Take a peek inside the warehouse. [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin has successful Pad Escape Test (2012-10-23)

“KENT, Wash. – Blue Origin conducted a successful Pad Escape test last week at its West Texas launch site, firing its pusher escape motor and launching a full-scale suborbital ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin Tests it’s BE-3 Engine (2013-03-06)

The BE-3 is a liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen(LOX/LH2) 100,000 pound thrust engine. The BE-3 is designed to be part of the RBS(Reusable booster system) that powers the Blue Origin Space Vehicle. In ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle test flight from Yesterday (2015-04-30)

Wow! Nice flight of Jeff Bezos’s New Shepard. Blue Origin Link [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Nice Blue Origin Engine Graphic (2015-06-23)

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Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin’s New Shepard goes into Space then lands (2015-11-24)

Historic news for Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin rocket. On Monday the craft went into space (329,839 feet) then returned to earth and landed. Of course this was a sub-orbital flight but still quite ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin’s Launch.Land.Repeat. Video (2016-01-23)

Blue Origin continues to push SpaceX’s buttons. Its like comparing apples to oranges since all of Blue Origin’s flights have been sub-orbital. It wasn’t long after Blue Ori ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Blue Origin...launched and landed...again (2016-01-23)

I almost posted an image showing the flight profile vs. the Falcon 9 that landed at the Cape last month. But then I thought, "Why?" Both are great accomplishments. [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Blue Origin's New Shepard, flight three (2016-04-03)

"New Shepard flew again on April 2, 2016 reaching an apogee of 339,178 feet or 103 kilometers. It was the third flight with the same hardware. We pushed the envelope on this flight, restarting the ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Onboard footage of Blue Origin rocket reentry from space (2016-05-09)

Most striking is the extreme speed with which it enters the atmosphere, the Earth is clearly growing larger with each second even from many km up! [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin Flight 4 (2016-06-19)

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Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin Test Mission 8 Info (2018-04-27)

Launch Time: Launch window opens Sunday, April 29th – 8:30 a.m. CDT Watch Live Stream: https://www.blueorigin.com/ “Mission 8 welcomes our second round of commercial payloads on board New ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin Mission 8 Launch Images (2018-04-29)

Launched to around 351,000 feet (66 miles) – nominal flight and landing of both booster and capsule. Advertisements [Read More]

Rocketeer's Corner: Sunday morning launch... (2018-04-30)

The Longshots begin unpacking their equipment for practice (Click to enlarge). The weather was practically perfect this past weekend - not only did I get rockets built ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Blue Origin New Shepard mission NS-10 launch info (2018-12-17)

Blue Origin’s next New Shepard mission (NS-10) is currently targeting liftoff tomorrow at 8:30 am CST / 14:30 UTC. This will be the 10th New Shepard mission and is dedicated to bringing nine ... [Read More]

Rocketeer's Corner: Caught launching rockets... (2019-11-17)

Now under construction on the old Pegasus field, the Blue Origin rocket engine plant is very big and impressive; I am always amazed at how quickly these buildings are built. They seem to spring up ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Mystery at Salt Flat (2009-02-26)

Clark Lindsey provides the link to the Mystery at Salt Flat , which explores a facility near Jeff Bezos's test area for Blue Origin in West Texas. [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: NASA: Good night moon, hello new rocket technology (2010-02-01)

By SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press Monday, February 1, 2010; 4:11 PM WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is redirecting America's space program, killing NASA's $100 billion plans to return ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: In Van Horn, Texas, their wide-open (new) space is still pretty quiet (2010-03-14)

An article in the El Paso Times   notes that, despite some early excitement and anticipation, the proximity of Blue Origin 's facility has not created much of an economic boom in the quiet West ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Just catching up on hump day (2010-03-17)

Sleuthing Blue Origin - Clark Lindsey notes that Blue Origin will be getting gaseous hydrogen (GH2) via a DoD procurement . The Next Big Future posts that General Atomics , while not building a ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: There Are Five Vehicles Competing To Succeed The Space Shuttle (2011-04-23)

By Frank Morring, Jr. Washington U.S. spacecraft engineers with federal funding will pursue at least five different ways to replace the space shuttle in the next few years, from capsules that ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: For the record...(updated) (2011-08-23)

Two items popped up today, yielding a bunch of hits to some old posts.  So, I decided I might as well make some mention of them. The first item/event was the 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Prototypes should be allowed to fail (2011-09-02)

In the wake of the reports about Blue Origin's crashed vehicle, Clark Lindsey reminds us that new-space companies don't have a monopoly on lander crashes.  That's why they test.  We can ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: The latest lander videos (2011-11-17)

Early Prototype New Shepard Vehicle Blue Origin has a couple of videos from a test flight earlier in the year.  While there, you might want to poke around the rest ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: And even more landers in the news (2011-11-21)

I have this fascination with lander style rockets - Armadillo, Masten, Blue Origin, Unreasonable Rocket, JSC's Morpheus and, now, MSFC's Mighty Eagle.  I love the way the latter appears to ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: NASA Dependent On Russian Soyuz Space Taxi For At Least Five More Years (2011-12-18)

(Reuters) - Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: In Texas, the spaceports are moving south (2012-04-09)

Texas is full of proposed spaceports, most of which have never materialized.  In fact, the one with the least published information - Blue Origin's site - is the only one that is op ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (expanded version) (2012-04-26)

Sugar High from Notes from the Technology Underground - Pointer to Bill's Gizmodo article . " One of the awesomest pairings around is the stuff known as rocket candy. Made from a common chemical ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-05-08)

SugarShot2Space's DoubleSShot static test motor CATOs - 85lbs of propellant in a 6" case. Long but interesting. High speed video starts 5 minutes in. Briefs: X-37B update; Blue Origin & ... [Read More]

DTH Rocket Blog: Stressful Fun: Random College Updates (2012-09-11)

If I thought I spread myself too thin last semester... I had no idea what was coming! Junior year in aerospace engineering is famous for requiring super-human abilities. Below I have summarized in a ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: The New Shepard escaped... (2012-10-22)

...to an altitude of 2,307'. And it recovered too.  (via Blue Origin )   [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post (2013-08-05)

Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post Wow. I wonder what the creator of Amazon,  Blue Origin  and Bezos Expeditions sees the future of paper newspapers to be.  WaPo is currently ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: The Dungeon's Top 10 of 2013 (2013-12-24)

Here is my annual list of things (mostly rocket related) that made me happy and captured my imagination. As usual, in no particular order: 1. Estes released the 29mm E16 and F15 BP motors. ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: First Flight (already with the updates) (2015-04-30)

Yesterday, Blue Origin quietly launched their New Shepard vehicle from their West Texas Facility. The attached video shows the launch and the apparent successful recovery of the capsule. I wonder ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Very Happy Rocket Scientists (2015-12-03)

The happiness is infectious in this video from Blue Origin’s 1st stage landing on Nov 23rd. [Read More]

Rocket N00b: A Chat with Aerotech, Part 2 (2016-01-26)

Part 2 of our conversation with Charles Savoie of Aerotech is now on The Rocketry Show. Also, CG, Gheem and I discuss an exciting rocketry project I witnessed a couple weeks ago - a finless, ... [Read More]

Rocketeer's Corner: It fell, daddy! (2017-06-28)

"It fell, daddy" - These words were the comment made by a little girl after witnessing a very heavy model of a Blue Origin (I think) spacecraft arc right into the the ground at Southern Thunder. It ... [Read More]

Rocketeer's Corner: The one where nothing goes right... (2020-11-23)

My LGM lies on the ground after its fall (Click to enlarge). Yesterday was a very nice day, perfect rocket flying weather - clear sky, no wind, and an afternoon high of 70 degrees. So Duane and I ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: NARCON Manufacturers Forum (2021-01-30)

The "virtual" NARCON is actually a great value at $25.00, considering you usually pay for  gas, hotel and food.  The Zoom style broadcast had some issues. T he format is fairly new to all ... [Read More]

JonRocket.com: Estes’s Blue Origin New Shepard Flying Rocket (2022-02-09)

Now you can fly the rocket that launched a thousand memes! The rocket that also blasted William Shatner (“Captain Kirk”) into space, is now a scale flying model from Estes. Using a C6-3 ... [Read More]

Rocketeer's Corner: Sunday afternoon launch (2022-02-10)

Girl scouts watch as the rocket they prepped heads skyward (Click to enlarge) . The John Paul II TARC teams had scheduled a TARC practice for this past Sunday, which provided a perfect excuse for ... [Read More]