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Blue Origin encounters setback in BE-4 engine testing
Blue Origin said Sunday that it lost a set of powerpack hardware for its BE-4 engine during a ground test mishap, dealing at least a minor setback to the development of a powerful U.S.-made propulsion system that United Launch Alliance says is the leading candidate to power the first stage of its next-generation Vulcan rocket.
Blue Origin’s staying power bankrolled by Jeff Bezos’s multibillion-dollar investment
Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, now the second-richest person in the world, is funding his space company's lofty ambitions $1 billion per year, driving Blue Origin closer to taking paying passengers to the edge of space and fielding a reusable satellite launcher that will usher in a golden age of space exploration, the billionaire tycoon said Wednesday.
Q&A with Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the surging space company Blue Origin, spoke with reporters at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
VideoBlue Origin details new rocket’s capabilities, signs first orbital customer
Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos revealed new details of his space company's reusable orbital-class booster Tuesday, releasing an animation illustrating the rocket's liftoff from Cape Canaveral and announcing a contract with Eutelsat to put a commercial communications satellite on one of the launcher's first missions.
Bezos reveals design of powerful orbital-class launcher
Tech pioneer and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos said this week his growing launch company, Blue Origin, plans to debut a 30-story satellite booster built and launched from Florida by the end of the decade.