Blue Origin, founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, is an American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company. It develops reusable rocket engines, launch vehicles like New Shepard and New Glenn, in-space systems, and lunar landers such as Blue Moon. Blue Origin is also a NASA partner, collaborating on the Artemis program for lunar exploration and working towards a sustainable human presence on the Moon, with partners like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Draper. Key activities include space tourism, satellite deployment capabilities, and advancing technologies to lower space travel costs.
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Blue Origin shipped a propulsion module rated for human spaceflight to its West Texas test site in late 2018.
The NS-10 mission lifted off from Blue Origin’s test site in West Texas at 10:05 a.m. Eastern.
Blue Origin intends to use future New Shepard capsules to carry people and expects the next capsule delivered from its factory in Washington state to carry people.
Blue Origin postponed the NS-10 flight on 2019-01-20 for at least one day due to high winds in the forecast and one vehicle open issue.
Blue Origin initially scheduled NS-10 for 2019-01-21 from the company’s test site in West Texas.
Blue Origin rescheduled the New Shepard test flight designated NS-10 for 2019-01-22.
Blue Origin had planned to carry out the NS-10 flight on 2018-12-18 but postponed it because of an unspecified ground infrastructure issue.
A revised FAA NOTAM reserved airspace for Blue Origin’s West Texas test site for 2019-01-22 and 2019-01-23 only.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a NOTAM restricting airspace around Blue Origin’s West Texas test site between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern on 2019-01-21 through 2019-01-23.
Blue Origin has not established a ticket price for future commercial flights on New Shepard.
Blue Origin has not yet determined when it will start selling tickets for New Shepard flights.
Blue Origin has yet to start selling tickets for future commercial flights on New Shepard.
Blue Origin has not announced a new date for the next launch of New Shepard.
Blue Origin plans to conduct another uncrewed test flight of New Shepard but postponed a previous flight due to technical issues.
Ariane Cornell stated that Blue Origin aims to ensure that not just the ultra-wealthy can fly to space.
Blue Origin expects to start flying people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle early in 2019.
Blue Origin plans to use New Shepard to fly space tourists.
Ariane Cornell is the head of astronaut strategy and sales at Blue Origin.
Blue Origin places a greater emphasis on safety over schedule for New Shepard flights.
Blue Origin pushed a New Shepard suborbital launch previously planned for mid-December to early 2019 after technical issues and poor weather at its West Texas launch site.