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Blue Origin announced a major expansion of its Florida launch facilities, adding two New Glenn launch pads, a new upper-stage manufacturing plant, and additional landing ships, with the goal of eventually flying 150 rockets per year.
NASA's Artemis III has been rescaled from a lunar landing to an Earth-orbit test of Orion's rendezvous with SpaceX and Blue Origin lander test articles, now targeted for 2028. Scientist Barbara Cohen explains the mission's value as a dress rehearsal and the role of humans in lunar science.
Elon Musk agrees with a tweet comparing Blue Origin's capital efficiency to SpaceX's pioneering work in orbital reusable booster technology.
NASA chief Jared Isaacman warns that China's lunar ambitions could deny access to the Moon's South Pole, intensifying the geopolitical and technological race between the US and China for space dominance.
Rocket Lab is protesting NASA's decision to award a $700 million Mars telecommunications spacecraft contract to Blue Origin, citing issues with eligibility criteria and the review process.
Blue Origin has secured a contract worth up to $700M to build a telecommunications network around Mars to support future missions and establish a communications backbone.
This edition of Ars Technica's Rocket Report covers Rocket Lab's new GHOST portable spaceport system, Blue Origin's two-pad plan at LC-36, ArianeGroup's decision to keep MaiaSpace afloat, and other launch industry updates.
Jeff Bezos shares that the Blue Origin team is moving at record speed at the launch pad, reaffirming the company's motto 'Gradatim Ferociter'.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp provided an update on the May hot-fire test failure of the New Glenn rocket, confirming the anomaly originated in a BE-4 engine's main oxygen valve, though the root cause has not yet been fully identified.
Blue Origin is raising $10 billion in private capital for the first time, led by Coatue Management and including a $2 billion contribution from Jeff Bezos, to better compete with SpaceX in spaceflight, launch, and related ventures.
Ars Technica recaps a live discussion on the aftermath of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explosion, focusing on the implications for NASA's Artemis IV mission and the timeline for new rocket variants.
NASA chief Jared Isaacman praises Blue Origin's progress after a launch failure, noting plan A is still to launch New Glenn by year's end, while NASA considers alternative launch vehicles for the Artemis III mission.
Nearly a month after the New Glenn rocket exploded on its launch pad, the article examines the implications for Blue Origin's future launches and NASA's Artemis program, including skepticism over a return-to-flight timeline.
Blue Origin announces the Power Tower, a deployable solar array system for its Blue Moon MK1 lander, designed to capture near-continuous sunlight at the lunar poles to sustain Moon Base operations.
The latest Rocket Report covers the rebuild of Blue Origin's launch pad, Relativity Space's Mars mission plans, Starship Flight 13 update, and Isar Aerospace's launch scrub.
Amazon has hundreds of flight-ready satellites waiting to launch for its Kuiper internet constellation, but only Europe's Arianespace has reliably delivered new rockets as scheduled, while Blue Origin and ULA lag behind.
Ars Technica interviews NASA's Artemis program manager Jeremy Parsons about the status of the SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, and lunar landers for the Artemis III mission, scheduled for no earlier than summer 2027.
NASA assigned the crew for Artemis III, a low-Earth orbit test mission to reduce risks before lunar landing, with a target launch no earlier than summer 2027.
Weekly roundup of space industry news covering Blue Origin's New Glenn explosion, Impulse Space fundraising, NASA's Artemis III stacking, Canadian spaceport development, and a new Chinese reusable rocket.
The explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket provides real-world data on methane-fueled rocket blasts, helping safety officials refine blast zones for future high-frequency launches at Cape Canaveral.