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blue originBlue Origin Will Lead Lunar Lander Development

October 22, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Blue Origin will lead a lunar lander development project. They will work with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper. These partners have decades of experience supporting NASA with human space flight systems, launch vehicles, orbital logistics, deep-space missions, interplanetary navigation …
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blue originEurope Tentatively Considers Copying SpaceX While China Has Four Companies Racing to Catchup

June 27, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Europe has provided 3 million euros in funding for a three year investigation of reusable rockets. This program is not funded to actually build or fly any vehicles. They want to agree on specifics of two designs. Europe is tentatively …
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blue originJeff Bezos Details Vision of Colonizing the Solar System

May 10, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Jeff Bezos discussed his vision to go to space to benefit Earth. He announced the Blue Moon lunar lander and provided updates on the New Shepard sub-orbital rocket and the New Glenn rocket.
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blue originBlue Origin Starts Building a BE-4 Rocket Engine Factory

January 27, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Blue Origin has started building a BE-4 rocket-engine production facility in Huntsville, Alabama. It will cost more than $200 million and employ about 300 when it opens in March 2020. This was reported by the Herald Net. The facility will …
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blue originNew Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket and a Successful First Commercial Sub-orbital Payload

January 27, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Blue Origin has successfully launched a first commercial payload. It was a sub-orbital launch with the New Shepard rocket. The New Shepard system took 8 NASA-sponsored research and technology payloads into sub-orbital space. This flight was dedicated to NASA’s Flight …
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blue originBlue Origin and BE4 get $1 billion Air Force boost

October 11, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
The Air Force’s recent funding should see close to $1 billion go towards Blue Origin and its BE4 engine. The BE4 engine is used in Blue Origin rocket and the ULA Vulcan rocket. $500 million in OTA funds will go …
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blue originBlue Origin flies booster and crew capsule

December 14, 2017 | Brian Wang |
 
Blue Origin New Shepard flew again for the seventh time on Dec. 12, 2017, from Blue Origin’s West Texas Launch Site. Known as Mission 7 (M7), the mission featured the next-generation booster and the first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0. …
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amazonUltra high definition TVs, a few native high resolution movies and TV shows for tens of hours of content in 2014

December 20, 2013 | Brian Wang |
 
Samsung’s currently has a 85-inch Ultra HD display is priced at $40,000, while LG has a 84-inch Ultra HD display priced at $17,000. LG Electronics and Samsung have each announced new 105-inch Ultra HD TV displays. Both call their new …
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