From around the blogaverse... Clark Lindsey provides a link to a Selenian Boondocks article where the blogger uses some rocket math to show why single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) is difficult. My ... [Read More]
Parabolic Arc posted comments and photos from Jeff Bezos about Blue Origin's recent flight activities. Three months ago they had a successful 'short hop' liftoff and landing flight and, last ... [Read More]
I almost posted an image showing the flight profile vs. the Falcon 9 that landed at the Cape last month. But then I thought, "Why?" Both are great accomplishments. [Read More]
"New Shepard flew again on April 2, 2016 reaching an apogee of 339,178 feet or 103 kilometers. It was the third flight with the same hardware. We pushed the envelope on this flight, restarting the ... [Read More]
Clark Lindsey provides the link to the Mystery at Salt Flat , which explores a facility near Jeff Bezos's test area for Blue Origin in West Texas.
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An article in the El Paso Times notes that, despite some early excitement and anticipation, the proximity of Blue Origin 's facility has not created much of an economic boom in the quiet West ... [Read More]
Sleuthing Blue Origin - Clark Lindsey notes that Blue Origin will be getting gaseous hydrogen (GH2) via a DoD procurement . The Next Big Future posts that General Atomics , while not building a ... [Read More]
Two items popped up today, yielding a bunch of hits to some old posts. So, I decided I might as well make some mention of them. The first item/event was the 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered ... [Read More]
In the wake of the reports about Blue Origin's crashed vehicle, Clark Lindsey reminds us that new-space companies don't have a monopoly on lander crashes. That's why they test.
We can ... [Read More]
Early Prototype New Shepard Vehicle
Blue Origin has a couple of videos from a test flight earlier in the year. While there, you might want to poke around the rest ... [Read More]
I have this fascination with lander style rockets - Armadillo, Masten, Blue Origin, Unreasonable Rocket, JSC's Morpheus and, now, MSFC's Mighty Eagle. I love the way the latter appears to ... [Read More]
Texas is full of proposed spaceports, most of which have never materialized. In fact, the one with the least published information - Blue Origin's site - is the only one that is op ... [Read More]
Sugar High from Notes from the Technology Underground - Pointer to Bill's Gizmodo article . " One of the awesomest pairings around is the stuff known as rocket candy. Made from a common chemical ... [Read More]
SugarShot2Space's DoubleSShot static test motor CATOs - 85lbs of propellant in a 6" case. Long but interesting. High speed video starts 5 minutes in.
Briefs: X-37B update; Blue Origin & ... [Read More]
Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post Wow. I wonder what the creator of Amazon, Blue Origin and Bezos Expeditions sees the future of paper newspapers to be. WaPo is currently ... [Read More]
Here is my annual list of things (mostly rocket related) that made me happy and captured my imagination. As usual, in no particular order: 1. Estes released the 29mm E16 and F15 BP motors. ... [Read More]
Yesterday, Blue Origin quietly launched their New Shepard vehicle from their West Texas Facility. The attached video shows the launch and the apparent successful recovery of the capsule. I wonder ... [Read More]
Clark Lindsey reports that Blue Origin has selected four research payloads for their New Shepard suborbital vehicle. [Read More]
