Sentences with phrase «blue origins»

No - one would ever question that, or its red, white and blue origins.

Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.

It's a plan Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has touched on in discussing moving big industry into space.

The co-founders conceived of the idea while working in the space industry shortly after college — Ellis with Blue Origin, Noone with SpaceX.

New space start - ups, including Blue Origin and SpaceX, have raised $ 2 billion in funding from private investors this year.

He said Blue Origin also hopes to launch tourists to space before the end of the year on the New Shepard rocket.

Blue Origin is headed quickly toward commercial operations as the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos nears the end of testing for several of its major projects.

CNBC's Morgan Brennan talks with Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith about the company's new engine for its latest orbital rocket and new opportunities in space exploration.

The company's BE-4 engine, the thunderous staple of Blue Origin's propulsion business, has demonstrated that it «works, and works well,» CEO Bob Smith told CNBC's Morgan Brennan at the 34th Space Symposium at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

While rocket building and space tourism are exciting to Smith, Blue Origin, at its core, is «a propulsion company,» he said.

Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin is quickly headed toward commercial operations as it nears the end of testing for several major projects.

Blue Origin recently test fired a BE-4 engine for nearly two minutes at nearly three - quarters of full power.

Progress on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is «going very well,» Smith said.

Blue Origin expects to find out the decision «very soon.»

Bezos» Blue Origin is rapidly passing milestones with its BE-4 engine, SpaceX astounded millions with its Falcon Heavy launch, Virgin Galactic completed the first powered flight of its Unity rocket and Bigelow took the next step toward the world's first habitable private space station with Bigelow Space Operations.

Future competitors, however, like Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin, do plan on using reusable rockets, matching SpaceX with that crucial capability.

He offered him a ride to space on the Blue Origin rocket, keeping it ambiguous whether this was a kind gesture or an effort to exile him from Earth.

Will still reserve him a seat on the Blue Origin rocket.

Now, in the age of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic, the idea that a private company would launch an orbiting hotel seems almost pedestrian.

The Amazon and Blue Origin boss lays out the reality he envisions for his great - grandchildren's great grandchildren.

While many of the space industry's heavyweights — Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — spent 2016 talking up their respective ambitions to go to Mars or build a space tourism business, Moon Express might be the company closest to getting humans to a place they haven't visited in 44 years.

He also owns The Washington Post and founded Blue Origin, the space - travel company.

Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. and founder of Blue Origin LLC, smiles while speaking at the unveiling of the Blue Origin New Shepard system during the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado on April 5, 2017.

Blue Origin could also pull off a surprising win with its New Glenn rocket, which is currently in development.

In July the U.S. Air Force is expected to award three suppliers with contracts for next - generation rocket designs under the Pentagon's launch services agreements program, with ULA, SpaceX, Orbital and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin as the likely competitors, Jefferies said.

So is Blue Origin, run by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, with its New Shepard spacecraft.

With the emergence of ambitious private space companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin and others, though, who's allowed to do what in the solar system is less clear.

From Amazon to Blue Origin to The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is considered by many, one of the most successful and influential leaders today.

Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com and owner of the Washington Post and aerospace company, Blue Origin.

Until now, Blue Origin's rockets had been designed to go into suborbital space, which entails flying more than 62 miles above the earth's surface, but not high enough to make a full revolution.

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket company, meanwhile, is squaring off with Richard Branson's startup, Virgin Galactic, to offer tourists short hops into space.

Other spaceflight companies, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sierra Nevada and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin, are variously developing new spacecraft designed to carry humans into orbital space as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).

Like Elon Musk's company, Blue Origin is engineering its rockets to safely land back on earth so they can be reused, thus shaving tens of millions of dollars off the cost of each launch.

Jeff Bezos and his company Blue Origin want to get space tourists into orbit as soon as next year, and he said recently that he is selling $ 1 billion worth of Amazon stock to fund the venture.

In April, Bezos told Ars Technica that Blue Origin's first orbital vehicle would not be its last — and that it would be the smallest orbital vehicle the company ever builds.

He also uses his billions for other things, like funding Blue Origin, his space flight company, and to support projects like the 10,000 year clock being built inside a mountain on his property in Texas.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, is just a few billion dollars away from dethroning Bill Gates to become the world's richest person.

Jeff Bezos» rocket company Blue Origin last month announced its first six launch contracts for its still - in - development New Glenn orbital rocket.

Founders: Elon Musk (CEO) Launched: 2002 Funding: $ 1.15 billion Valuation: $ 10 billion (PitchBook) Disrupting: Aerospace Rival: Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Virgin Galactic

Musk chimed back just hours later with his own kissy face for the Blue Origin boss.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin company in Washington state received NASA funding in the early rounds of competition, then said it would continue working on its own, unfunded by the government.

Then, after a man landed on the moon in 1969, he wanted to be an astronaut, a harbinger, perhaps to his aerospace venture Blue Origin.

Blue Origin, which is separate from Amazon, faces a growing field of rivals in the race for privatized space travel.

In the case of Blue Origin, the company's smallest vehicle can be used to practice flying and landing techniques that can then be applied to larger rockets that can launch satellites, Bezos said.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin won $ 3.7 million to develop a launch escape system and build a crew - carrying module, and Paragon Space Development Corp (No. 953 on Inc.'s 2009 5000) won $ 1.4 million to perfect its environmental control and life support air vitalization system.

«And so I'm taking those lottery winnings and investing them in Blue Origin, and I've been doing that for 15 years.»

Bezos named a Blue Origin rocket «New Glenn» after the astronaut, who died in December at age 95.

The market is typically divided between $ 2 million to $ 5 million light vehicles — built by Rocket Lab, Vector and Virgin Orbit — and $ 62 million to $ 400 million heavy vehicles — built by SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin.

The Amazon founder's Blue Origin aerospace outfit will develop rocket engines for the United Launch Alliance — a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing that creates spacecraft for the U.S....

Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith discusses the outlook for space travel in the future and following a business plan similar to Amazon.