Sentences with phrase «rocket company blue»

Reportedly, billionaires Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of rocket company Blue Origin, have met with President Trump several times for talks about the proposed moon missions and partnership with NASA.

Bezos previously said he's funding rocket company Blue Origin LLC to the tune of $ 1 billion a year through the sale of Amazon stock.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

Rolls - Royce and Boeing have both invested in rocket engine company Reaction Engines as the latest blue - chip companies to back the start - up's thermal management technology.

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.

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.

Rocket Internet's meal kit company HelloFresh has a similar business model to Blue Apron.

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.

Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, also heads up the Blue Origin private space company, which successfully launched a rocket on Sunday.

ULA plans to retire that launcher after about seven more missions, but the company is developing a reusable rocket, dubbed Vulcan, to compete with innovative companies like Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin.

In Colorado Springs, Colo., in April, Jeff Bezos announced he would sell Amazon stock to finance his Blue Origin rocket company.

Let's just say Bezos, founder of the Blue Origin space company and fellow billionaire, wasn't impressed with the Falcon 9 orbital rocket landing back on Earth.

Blue Origin, the aerospace company owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has announced it is working on the New Glenn — the company's first rocket capable of going beyond LEO.

Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos's commercial space - flight company, Blue Origin, successfully launched and landed a rocket ship at its launch site in West Texas on Monday.

One of the first to offer congratulations to Elon Musk and SpaceX for nailing a rocket landing was Jeff Bezos, fellow billionaire rocketeer who founded his own space company, Blue Origin, in 2000, a couple of years before Musk started SpaceX.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters)- Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday he is selling about $ 1 billion worth of the internet retailer's stock annually to fund his Blue Origin rocket company, which aims to launch paying passengers on 11 - minute space rides starting next year.

No wonder companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin are developing bigger, reusable rockets that could make searching for and recovering asteroids much cheaper — and more likely to happen in a few years.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of private spaceflight company Blue Origin and founder and CEO of Amazon.com, announced today that Blue Origin will make Florida's Space Coast its home port for reusable rocket launches.

Blue Origin, financed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, and Armadillo Aerospace, owned by John Carmack, whose company designed the megahit computer games Doom and Quake, are also developing passenger - carrying rocket ships, although they have not declared a time line for commercial launches.

Bezos» rocket company, Blue Origin, has been working on sub-orbital space flight since 2000, with an eye on the space tourism market.

Blue Origin, an aerospace company based in Kent, Washington, and led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is working on a rocket - propelled vehicle called New Shepard to carry people and microgravity experiments on suborbital trips into space.

Blue Origin has been somewhat secretive about the progress of its spaceflight vehicles and rockets; the company typically doesn't announce test flights until they are already completed.

The private spaceflight company Blue Origin just launched itself into the history books by successfully flying and landing a reusable rocket.

This soft landing means the rocket can be used for more flights, which Blue Origin and other companies have said will significantly drive down the cost of spaceflight.

Blue Origin is not the only company pursuing a reusable rocket design.

Another private company, Blue Origin, intends to debut its reusable New Glenn rocket in 2020, and ULA is working on a vehicle called Vulcan.

Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has posted the first - ever images of the fully - completed BE-4 liquid rocket engine on Twitter, giving the world a look at the technology that his company plans to use to send its New Glenn...

Blue Origin's CEO says he expects the company's BE-4 engine to complete qualification testing by the end of the year as the company ramps up work on its New Glenn orbital rocket.

The new boom in space - related jobs in Florida is leading companies like Blue Origin, OneWeb and Rocket Crafters to embrace new ways of training employees, especially German - style apprencticeship programs for local students.