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      New Glenn : mais à quoi joue Blue Origin ?

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 15 December - 15:30

    New Glenn Bezos

    L'entreprise de Jeff Bezos peine à avancer, alors qu'elle était censée s'imposer comme un acteur majeur de la nouvelle course à l'espace. Pourtant, ses représentants ont enchaîné les pronostics très ambitieux ces dernières semaines, et semblent convaincus que leur nouvelle fusée New Glenn va enfin décoller en 2024.

    New Glenn : mais à quoi joue Blue Origin ?

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      Jeff Bezos says what we’re all thinking: “Blue Origin needs to be much faster”

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 14 December - 20:37

    Jeff Bezos holding aviation glasses up to his face.

    Enlarge / Jeff Bezos, shortly after he rode on New Shepard to space. (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gives very few interviews, but he recently sat down with the computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman for a two-hour interview about Amazon, Blue Origin, his business practices, and more.

    The discussion meanders somewhat, but there are some interesting tidbits about spaceflight, especially when the conversation turns to Blue Origin. This is the space company Bezos founded more than 23 years ago. He has invested an extraordinary amount of money into Blue Origin—likely somewhere between $10 billion and $20 billion—and it truly is a passion project.

    But the inescapable truth about Blue Origin is that to date, it has been a disappointment in terms of execution. At present, Blue Origin employs approximately 11,000 people, about the same total as SpaceX. However, Blue Origin has launched zero rockets this year, whereas SpaceX has launched nearly 100, as well as building and launching thousands of satellites.

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      La fusée New Shepard se remet en selle un an après un raté en plein vol

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 13 December - 09:19

    Blue Origin se remet sur les rails. L'entreprise américaine prévoit un lancement de fusée New Shepard le 18 décembre 2023, plus d'un an après un accident en plein vol. Il s'agira d'une mission inhabitée.

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      Blue Origin sure seems confident it will launch New Glenn in 2024

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 13 December - 02:25 · 1 minute

    This picture, taken several months ago, shows different parts for Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket inside the company's manufacturing facility in Florida.

    Enlarge / This picture, taken several months ago, shows different parts for Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket inside the company's manufacturing facility in Florida. (credit: Blue Origin)

    For the first time, it's starting to feel like Jeff Bezos's space company, Blue Origin, might have a shot at launching its long-delayed New Glenn rocket within the next 12 months.

    Of course, there's a lot for Blue Origin to test and validate before New Glenn is ready to fly. First, the company's engineers need to fully assemble a New Glenn rocket and raise it on the company's sprawling seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. There's a good chance of this happening in the coming months as Blue Origin readies for a series of tanking tests and simulated countdowns at the launch site.

    It's tempting to invoke Berger's Law, the guideline championed by my Ars colleague which states that if a launch is scheduled for the fourth quarter of a calendar year—and if it is at least six months away—the launch will delay into the next year. Given Blue Origin's history of New Glenn delays, that's probably the safer bet. New Glenn's inaugural flight has been delayed from 2020 until 2021, then 2022, and for now, is slated for 2024.

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      After 15 months Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft will finally fly again

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 12 December - 18:36

    Photos from New Shepard launch day.

    Enlarge / Blue Origin's New Shepard launch system consists of a booster and a capsule. (credit: Blue Origin )

    Blue Origin is finally returning to flight.

    On Tuesday the company announced, via the social media site X , that its New Shepard spacecraft would launch no earlier than next Monday.

    "We’re targeting a launch window that opens on Dec. 18 for our next New Shepard payload mission," the company stated. "#NS24 will carry 33 science and research payloads as well as 38,000 @clubforfuture postcards to space."

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      Amazon doit s’en remettre à son rival SpaceX pour déployer sa constellation de satellites

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 5 December - 09:19

    Falcon 9 Starlink SpaceX

    Amazon se retrouve à devoir faire appel à son rival direct dans les constellations de satellites pour déployer la sienne. En effet, un accord avec SpaceX a été conclu pour envoyer des satellites Kuiper. [Lire la suite]

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      Jeff Bezos veut doubler Elon Musk, Amazon ira sur Mars avant SpaceX

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 24 November - 18:00

    Nasa Escapade Blue Origin

    L'entreprise de Jeff Bezos, Blue Ogirin, pourrait se rendre en orbite martienne dès 2024. Un exploit que même SpaceX n'a pas encore réussi.

    Jeff Bezos veut doubler Elon Musk, Amazon ira sur Mars avant SpaceX

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      La première mission de la fusée géante New Glenn visera Mars

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 24 November - 09:17

    Blue Origin New Glenn

    New Glenn ne visera pas la Lune, mais Mars. La première mission qui sera confiée à la future fusée de Blue Origin devrait être l'envoi de deux sondes vers la planète rouge, en 2024. [Lire la suite]

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      NASA will launch a Mars mission on Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 22 November - 17:16

    Artist's illustration of a New Glenn rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

    Enlarge / Artist's illustration of a New Glenn rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (credit: Blue Origin)

    The first flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket seems to have a payload. Instead of launching a sports car, as SpaceX did with its first Falcon Heavy rocket, Jeff Bezos's space company will likely launch a pair of Mars probes for NASA.

    NASA is aware of the risk of launching a real science mission on the first flight of a new rocket. But this mission, known by the acronym ESCAPADE, is relatively low cost. The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission has a budget of approximately $79 million, significantly less than any mission NASA has sent to Mars in recent history.

    This mission will use two spacecraft to measure plasma and magnetic fields around the red planet. With simultaneous observations from two locations around Mars, scientists hope to learn more about the processes that strip away atoms from the magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, which drive Martian climate change.

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