The race is on, with both companies attempting to establish a heavy lift launch system capable of exploring deep space and perhaps even landing humans on the Moon.īut as it stands right now, SpaceX has the clear upper hand. (Image credit: Blue Origin) For Blue Origin. Blue Origins New Shepard rocket launches the crew capsule RSS First Step on an uncrewed suborbital test flight from the companys Launch Site One in West Texas on April 14, 2021. It's likely the company will opt for a SpaceX-style vertical landing once the booster has delivered its payload. For Blue Origin, this coming moment has been more than two decades in the making.
We have yet to see what kind of landing system Blue Origin will end up choosing. Cranking Out TanksĪccording to Ars, Blue Origin has developed a fast and iterative engineering process to test out a variety of different test tank designs (though we'll believe that when we see it). The rocket is being developed under the codename "Project Jarvis." The first test tank rolled out today to Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, as the images show. The test tank bears a striking resemblance to SpaceX's Super Heavy booster prototypes - which is striking, because the two space companies are currently embroiled in an increasingly bitter feud. Whether you are an astronaut flying with Blue Origin or sending a. Alexandra Abrams, who spent two and half years working on Blue Origin’s. Project Jarvisīlue Origin is making headwind on developing a fully reusable rocket stage designed to launch its New Glenn rocket, according to images taken near the test site and published by Ars Technica today. Named after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to go to space, New Shepard is our reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line the internationally recognized boundary of space. Blue Origin claimed at today’s press conference that NASA has indicated that it plans to be an anchor tenant of Orbital Reef. We may earn a commission from links on this page.
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