Sentences with phrase «suborbital new»

Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos and his Kent, Wash. - based company Blue Origin have been making progress at a steady rate the last few years, developing and testing a fully reusable, suborbital New Shepherd flight system and making plans to resurrect dormant Cape -LSB-...]

Bezos posted on Twitter, a not - so - oblique reference to his company nailing a landing of its suborbital New Shepard rocket a month ago.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the company claims the carbon footprint of one of its suborbital flights will be less than that of a one - way flight from London to New York.

The New Shepard suborbital rocket ship has already flown to space and back five times as part of the test flights, and it was a huge success.

To ensure that the US has independent access to the ISS, NASA has commissioned private companies to build suborbital and orbital ships, effectively kick - starting a new space race.

Visible from North Carolina to upstate New York, the eerie trails were created by five suborbital NASA rockets that soared to altitudes of 50 to 80 miles, where they released chemical tracers that reacted with oxygen in the thin upper atmosphere.

The Kent, Washington - based Blue Origin is currently developing a vehicle called New Shepard that is designed to take passengers on short suborbital trips so they can experience the thrill of weightlessness and see the blackness of space without the filter of Earth's atmosphere.

The NASA - funded FOXSI instrument captured new evidence of small solar flares, called nanoflares, during its December 2014 flight on a suborbital sounding rocket.

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 intends to use the New Shepard vehicle for suborbital space tourism and as a microgravity science laboratory.

On June 19, Blue Origin launched their reusable New Shepherd rocket and crew capsule into suborbital space over western -LSB-...]

So far they've done a good job in keeping costs down and they're bolstering the New Space industry (Mojave, Bigelow and all the suborbital ventures).