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Space & Cosmos
Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket into orbit, a feat that took 15 years to accomplish
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Shortly after 2 a.m. ET on January 16, 2025, a new rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launch reached orbit, marking a milestone for a commercial space company with big ambitions. As a space policy expert, I see New Glenn’s success as a major step forward…
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Space & Cosmos
5 things to know about Blue Origin’s new rocket, New Glenn
A New Glenn rocket installed on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in December 2024. Blue Origin, the American space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, is gearing up for its historic first maiden voyage into orbit with its brand new rocket, New Glenn. There is. Here are five important things to know…
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Space & Cosmos
Blue Origin prepares for first launch of giant New Glenn rocket
This handout photo provided by Blue Origin shows the New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A quarter-century after its founding, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was finally ready for its first orbital journey on Sunday with a brand-new rocket that it hopes will shake up the…
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Space & Cosmos
Bezos’ Blue Origin ready for first orbital launch next week
In this handout photo provided by Blue Origin, a New Glenn rocket is seen during a high-temperature fire test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida, Dec. 27, 2024. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin is scheduled to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by…
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Science
NASA camera captures Blue Ghost lander’s interaction with the moon’s surface
Here, one of the SCALPSS cameras can be seen attached to the Blue Ghost lander. Credit: Firefly Say cheese again, Moon. Let’s take a close-up again. For the second time in less than a year, NASA technology designed to collect data about the lunar lander’s rocket plume and its interaction with the moon’s surface has been used for the benefit…
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Science
Citizen scientist data helps unravel the mystery of low-latitude blue auroras
It was one of two photos of blue-dominated auroras analyzed in this study. Credit: Takuya Usami On May 11, 2024, colorful aurora borealis appeared over the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan, triggered by an intense geomagnetic storm. Auroras observed at low latitudes usually appear red due to the emission of oxygen atoms. However, on this day, a salmon-pink…
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