Hacker News with Generative AI: Blue Origin

Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket (arstechnica.com)
Early on Thursday morning, a Saturn V-sized rocket ignited its seven main engines, a prelude to lifting off from Earth.

Spaceflight, Rockets, Blue Origin, New Glenn, Space Exploration

368 points by johnneville 2 days ago | 263 comments

Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 (video) (blueorigin.com)
New Glenn will launch for the first time from LC-36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The NG-1 mission will carry our Blue Ring Pathfinder and mark the vehicle's first National Security Space Launch certification flight.

Spaceflight, Aerospace, National Security, Blue Origin, New Glenn

67 points by mkl 2 days ago | 97 comments

New Glenn to make another launch attempt early Thursday (arstechnica.com)
Blue Origin announced late on Monday afternoon that it planned to make a second attempt to launch the New Glenn rocket at 1 am ET (06:00 UTC) on Tuesday. But then, a couple of hours later, the company said it would move the launch to Thursday.

Space Exploration, Rocket Launches, Blue Origin

39 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 26 comments

Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 – Live (blueorigin.com)

Spaceflight, Blue Origin, Live Streaming

149 points by trollied 5 days ago | 95 comments

After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly (arstechnica.com)
After a long day of stops and starts that stretched well into the evening, and on what appeared to be the company's fifth attempt Friday, Blue Origin successfully ignited the seven main engines on its massive New Glenn rocket.

Space Exploration, Rocketry, Blue Origin

113 points by fenced_load 20 days ago | 143 comments

The New Glenn rocket's first stage (arstechnica.com)
Blue Origin took another significant step toward the launch of its large New Glenn rocket on Tuesday night by rolling the first stage of the vehicle to a launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Space Exploration, Rocketry, Blue Origin

6 points by perihelions 80 days ago | 0 comments

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to launch a new crew capsule on Monday (theverge.com)
Blue Origin is preparing to launch its NS-27 mission with the RSS Kármán Line, its new crew capsule, on Monday at 9AM ET.

Space Exploration, Spaceflight, Blue Origin, Bezos

4 points by thunderbong 104 days ago | 0 comments

Blue Origin has ignited an orbital rocket stage (arstechnica.com)
Twenty days after it rolled out to Blue Origin's launch site in Florida, the second stage of the massive New Glenn rocket underwent a successful hot-fire test on Monday.

Space Exploration, Rocketry, Blue Origin

32 points by LinuxBender 116 days ago | 3 comments

First Look Inside Blue Origin's New Glenn Factory with Jeff Bezos [video] (youtube.com)

Space Exploration, Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, Video, Manufacturing

23 points by skagenpilot 154 days ago | 3 comments

Does anyone remember Blue Origin? What are they even doing for a decade? (ycombinator.com)

Space Exploration, Blue Origin, Business, Space Industry

8 points by user90131313 196 days ago | 7 comments

First Black astronaut candidate, now 90, reaches space in Blue Origin flight (theguardian.com)

Spaceflight, History, Diversity, Blue Origin

27 points by adwmayer 243 days ago | 2 comments