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September 11, 2024

Breaking News

[ September 11, 2024 ] NASA astronaut Don Pettit to make fourth trip to the International Space Station Mission Reports
[ September 9, 2024 ] SpaceX surmounts challenging weather, launches Polaris Dawn astronaut mission Falcon 9
[ September 7, 2024 ] Starliner lands safely in New Mexico Mission Reports
[ September 6, 2024 ] As it happened: Boeing’s Starliner returned to Earth, marking the end of the Crew Flight Test mission Mission Reports
[ September 6, 2024 ] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on national security mission for the NRO Falcon 9

Blue Origin details new rocket’s capabilities, signs first orbital customer

March 7, 2017 Stephen Clark

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

September 14, 2016 Stephen Clark

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.