That booster is expected to return to Earth to make a vertical landing on a pad near its launch site at Blue Origin's Launch Site One. The payload capsule, meanwhile, will continue upwards on a ...
But NS-29 is not a space tourist flight; the capsule is packed with 30 research payloads, "all but one of which is focused on testing lunar-related technologies," Blue Origin wrote in a mission ...
Of this mission’s 30 payloads, 29 will fly inside the crew capsule and one will fly on the booster with exposure to the ambient space environment, Blue Origin said. The mission will also carry ...
Kent-based Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is key to clearing a $10 billion backlog of launch contracts for commercial customers, NASA, and the U.S. Defense... Blue Origin will try again to launch ...
So New Glenn boosters will travel farther out over the Atlantic before their recovery run back to Earth with previous Blue Origin statements saying they will aim for a landing 620 miles downrange.
With no humans on board, the launch escape system activated, allowing the capsule to safely return to Earth. This landing also meant that had people been on board, they too would have returned safely.
Great night for Team Blue. On to spring and trying again on the landing ... Origin with around $1 billion (£720 million) of Amazon stock each year. The system consists of a pressurised crew ...
Bezos told Reuters on Sunday, before Blue Origin's first launch attempt, that he was most nervous about landing the booster. But he added that sticking the landing would be the "icing on the cake ...