"(285 ft) before returning to Earth, in a remote part of Texas. The flight marks the first time Jeff Bezos has broken his silence on the work of his space company, Blue Origin. On the company's website, Mr Bezos said: ""We're working, patiently and step-by-step, to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go; and so that we humans can better continue exploring the Solar System."" ""Accomplishing this mission will take a long time, and we're working on it methodically."" Mr Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the intention of developing a vertical take-off"
"duration, while carrying an research payload. By March 2016, Blue noted that they are ""due to start flying unaccompanied scientific payloads later [in 2016]."" New Shepard New Shepard is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital crewed rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism. Blue Origin is owned and led by Amazon.com founder and businessman Jeff Bezos and aerospace engineer Rob Meyerson. The name ""New Shepard"" makes reference to the first American astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, who ascended to space on a suborbital trajectory"
"New Shepard New Shepard is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital crewed rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism. Blue Origin is owned and led by Amazon.com founder and businessman Jeff Bezos and aerospace engineer Rob Meyerson. The name ""New Shepard"" makes reference to the first American astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, who ascended to space on a suborbital trajectory similar to that planned for ""New Shepard"". Prototype engine and vehicle flights began in 2006, while full-scale engine development started in the early 2010s"
"Glenn is being funded by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, and the US Air Force. New Glenn will receive $500 million in funding under the EELV program. By September 2017, Bezos had invested into ""New Glenn"". As of 2018, Blue was aggressively hiring new talent, including 60 engineers who worked previously at SpaceX, to focus principally on New Glenn development. New Glenn The New Glenn (named for John Glenn) is a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle in development by Blue Origin. Design work on the vehicle began in 2012. The vehicle itself, and the high-level specifications, were initially publicly unveiled in"
"by Mr Bezos as ""both useful and fun"", was watched by friends, family and a team of engineers. Blue Origin Goddard Blue Origin Goddard is the name of the first development vehicle in the Blue Origin New Shepard program, which flew for the first time on November 13, 2006. Named after rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard, the vehicle is a subscale demonstrator and flew at a 285 ft altitude during its initial flight. The private spacecraft venture is being funded by the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos. He hopes that the private spacecraft could eventually bring space travel within the"
"the DARPA XS-1 spaceplane program. In September 2018, it was announced that Blue Origin's BE-4 engine was selected by United Launch Alliance to provide first-stage rocket engines for their latest booster design, the Vulcan rocket. The BE-4 engine is set to replace the Russian-build RD-180 powering ULA's Atlas 5. Blue Origin Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company, which in 2017 hired NASA Silver Snoopy Award winner Robert Smith as CEO, is developing technologies to enable private human access to space"
"cost and to increase the safety of human spaceflight. By July 2014, Bezos had invested over of his own money into Blue Origin. The first developmental test flight of the ""New Shepard"" occurred on April 29, 2015. The uncrewed vehicle flew to its planned test altitude of more than and achieved a top speed of . In July 2015, NanoRacks, a provider of services such as payload design and development, safety approvals, and integration, announced a partnership with Blue Origin to provide standardized payload accommodations for experiments flying on Blue Origin's ""New Shepard"" suborbital vehicle. As of late 2016, Blue"
"the sale of the vessel on 30 August 2018, and in October Blue Origin, a U.S. launch service provider and space technology company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, confirmed it was the purchaser. The vessel sailed to Florida and arrived at Pensacola later that month to commence a refit. In March 2017 Blue Origin had unveiled the concept of landing a rocket on a hydrodynamically-stabilized ship that was underway, but did not reveal which marine vessel would be used as the landing platform until October 2018. Launches of the ""New Glenn"" launch vehicle are planned to be made from"
"equity in Amazon. As early as 2005, Bezos had discussed plans to create a vertical-takeoff and landing spaceship called New Shepard. Plans for New Shepard were initially kept quiet, but Blue Origin's website indicated Bezos' desire to, ""lower the cost of spaceflight so that ... we humans can better continue exploring the solar system."" By 2008, a publicized timetable for New Shepard indicated that Blue Origin intended to fly unmanned in 2011, and manned in 2012. In a 2011 interview, Bezos indicated that he founded Blue Origin to send customers into space by focusing on two objectives: to decrease the"
"Virgin Hyperloop One Virgin Hyperloop One formerly known as Hyperloop One, is an American transportation technology company that was formed in 2014, and reorganized and renamed in 2017, working to commercialize the high-speed technology concept called Hyperloop. Hyperloop systems are intended to move passengers and/or cargo at airline speeds at a fraction of the cost of air travel. The concept of Hyperloop transportation was first introduced by Elon Musk in August 2013. The original Hyperloop concept uses a linear electric motor to accelerate and decelerate an electromagnetically levitated pod through a low-pressure tube. The vehicle will glide silently for miles"
"Amazon Prime Air Amazon Prime Air is a conceptual drone-based delivery system currently in development by Amazon. On December 1, 2013, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos revealed plans for Amazon Prime Air in an interview on ""60 Minutes"". Amazon Prime Air is planned to use multirotor miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (miniature UAV) technology to autonomously fly individual packages to customers within 30 minutes of ordering. To qualify for 30-minute delivery, the order must be less than 5 pounds (2.25 kg), must be small enough to fit in the cargo box that the craft will carry, and must have a delivery location"
"billion in 2017. He also invested in Unity Biotechnology, a life-extension research firm hoping to slow or stop the process of aging. Bezos is involved in the healthcare sector, which includes investments in Unity Biotechnology, Grail, Juno Therapeutics, and ZocDoc. In January 2018, an announcement was made concerning Bezos's role within a new, unnamed healthcare company. This venture is expected to be a partnership between Amazon, JPMorgan, and Berkshire Hathaway. Journalist Nellie Bowles of ""The New York Times"" has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of ""a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan"". During the"
"In September 2015, Blue Origin announced details of an unnamed planned orbital launch vehicle, indicating that the first stage would be powered by its BE-4 rocket engine currently under development, while the second stage would be powered by its recently completed BE-3 rocket engine. In addition, Blue Origin announced that it would both manufacture and launch the new rocket from the Florida Space Coast. No payload or gross launch weight was given. Bezos noted in interviews that this new launch vehicle would not compete for US government national security missions, leaving that market to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX. Science-fiction"
"Blue Origin Goddard Blue Origin Goddard is the name of the first development vehicle in the Blue Origin New Shepard program, which flew for the first time on November 13, 2006. Named after rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard, the vehicle is a subscale demonstrator and flew at a 285 ft altitude during its initial flight. The private spacecraft venture is being funded by the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos. He hopes that the private spacecraft could eventually bring space travel within the reach of the masses. A video of the cone-shaped Goddard vehicle shows it climbing to about 85 m"
"plans, Jeff Bezos has said the company is developing a spacecraft that would take off and land vertically and carry three or more astronauts to the edge of space. New Shepard has flown above the Karman line, landed and been reflown to above the Karman line again. On 16 September 2014, SpaceX and Boeing were awarded contracts as part of NASA's CCtCap program to develop their Crew Dragon and CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, respectively. Both are capsule designs to bring crew to orbit, a different commercial market than that addressed by Virgin Galactic. Now-defunct XCOR Aerospace had also worked on rocket-powered"
"""were a big fraction of airplane flights in those early days,"" he sees space tourism playing a similar role: advancing ""space travel and rocket launches, through tourism and entertainment."" On the other hand, there are no current plans to pursue the niche market of US military launches; Bezos has said he is unsure where Blue Origin would add any value in that market. On September 12, 2016, Blue announced that its orbital rocket would be named ""New Glenn"" in honor of the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, John Glenn, and that the first stage will be powered by"
"in the initial 2016 announcement, and the second stage will now be powered by two upper stage versions of the BE-3 tap-off cycle liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket engine. Blue explained in the 12 September 2016 announcement that the rocket would be named ""New Glenn"" in honor of the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, John Glenn. Three weeks of wind tunnel testing of a scale model ""New Glenn"" were completed in September 2016 in order to validate the CFD design models of transonic and supersonic flight. In March 2017, Jeff Bezos showed graphics of the New Glenn which had"
"Even by March 2016, the vast majority of funding to support technology development and operations at Blue Origin has come from Jeff Bezos' private investment, but Bezos had declined to publicly state the amount prior to 2017 when an annual amount was stated publicly. Blue Origin has also completed work for NASA on several small development contracts, receiving total funding of by 2013. , Bezos is selling approximately in Amazon stock each year to privately finance Blue Origin. Blue Origin has contracted to do work for NASA on several development efforts. The company was awarded in funding in 2009 by"
"during a significantly more energetic geostationary transfer orbit mission. In March 2017, SpaceX became the first to successfully re-launch and land the first stage of an orbital rocket. SpaceX plans to launch its Dragon 2 spacecraft in January 2019 and to launch its first crewed spacecraft Dragon 2 in June 2019. In September 2016, CEO Elon Musk unveiled the mission architecture of the Interplanetary Transport System program, an ambitious privately funded initiative to develop spaceflight technology for use in crewed interplanetary spaceflight. In 2017, Musk unveiled an updated configuration of the system, now named the BFR (Big Falcon Rocket), which"
"seven Blue Origin BE-4 engines. The first stage is reusable and will land vertically, just like the ""New Shepard"" suborbital launch vehicle that preceded it. At the time of the announcement of New Glenn, Bezos revealed that the next project beyond New Glenn would be ""New Armstrong"", without detailing what that would be. In March 2017, Bezos announced that Blue Origin had acquired its first paying launch customer for orbital satellite launches. Eutelsat is expected to start launching TV satellites in 2022 on Blue Origin's New Glenn orbital launch vehicle. A day after announcing Eutelsat, Blue Origin introduced OneWeb as"
"and Sierra Nevada have explicit plans to advance human spaceflight. , all four of those companies have development programs underway to fly commercial passengers. A commercial suborbital spacecraft aimed at the space tourism market is being developed by Virgin Galactic called SpaceshipTwo which reached space in December 2018. Blue Origin has begun a multi-year test program of their New Shepard vehicle and carried out six successful uncrewed test flights in 2015–2016. Blue Origin plan to fly ""test passengers"" in Q2 2017, and initiate commercial flights in 2018. SpaceX and Boeing are both developing passenger-capable orbital space capsules as of 2015,"
"the unused complex out as part of a bid to reduce annual operation and maintenance costs of unused government facilities. The SpaceX bid was for exclusive use of the launch complex to support their future crewed missions, but SpaceX said in September 2013 that they are also willing to support a multi-user arrangement for LC-39A, and they reiterated that position in December 2013. A competing bid for commercial use of the launch complex was submitted by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, who bid for a shared non-exclusive use of the complex such that the launchpad can interface with multiple vehicles, and"
"SpaceX CRS-15 SpaceX CRS-15, also known as SpX-15, was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station launched 29 June 2018 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission was contracted by NASA and flown by SpaceX. In early 2015, NASA awarded a contract extension to SpaceX for three additional CRS missions (CRS-13 to CRS-15). In June 2016, a NASA Inspector General report had this mission manifested for April 2018, but this was pushed back, first to 6 June, to 9 June, to 28 June and finally to 29 June 2018. The mission launched on 29 June 2018 at"
"Zero Gravity Corporation Zero Gravity Corporation (also known as ZERO-G) is an American company based in Arlington, Virginia, formerly of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which operates weightless flights from United States airports. Unlike NASA, ZERO-G is governed under Part 121 of FAA regulations (as are all US commercial passenger and cargo airlines) enabling the company to cater to both tourists and researchers alike. Founded by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, astronaut Byron K. Lichtenberg, and NASA engineer Ray Cronise, the company has been operating weightless flights since 2004. Over 15000 were clients as of November 2017 . A number of notable passengers have"
"location and approximately 50 in Texas supporting the engine-test and suborbital test-flight facility. By April 2017, the company had more than 1000 employees. In August 2018, the company was more than 1500 employees, more than double the number in early 2016, and is ""expected to double again by the time New Glenn is flying."" As of 2016, Blue Origin was spending US$1 billion a year, funded by Jeff Bezos' sales of Amazon stock. In both 2017, and again in 2018, Bezos made public statements that he intends to fund Blue Origin with US$1 billion per year from sales of his"
"Convoy (company) Convoy is a Seattle based trucking startup co-founded by CEO Dan Lewis and CTO Grant Goodale. On 25 July 2017, the company raised $62 million in Series B funding led by Y Combinator's Continuity Fund. Other new investors included Cascade Investment CEO Bill Gates, Mosaic Ventures, former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, and Barry Diller. This round of funding brought Convoy's total amount raised to $80 million. They joined existing Convoy investors Greylock Partners (the VC fund of LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman), Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos via Bezos Expeditions, former Starbucks President Howard Behar, Code.org"
"automated object detection, GPS surveillance, gigapixel cameras, and enhanced image resolution. Autonomous vehicles also fall under the Prime Air division's responsibility. There is little news about this potential direction, which would seem to make great sense for Amazon, since the last mile of delivery is the most expensive, and human drivers are the primary cost, but there is little news about this since an article about an Amazon patent for reversible lanes. Amazon Prime Air Amazon Prime Air is a conceptual drone-based delivery system currently in development by Amazon. On December 1, 2013, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos revealed plans for"
"from Imperial College London. Zvi Schreiber Zvi Schreiber ( ; born 9 June 1969) is a British-Israeli serial entrepreneur, executive, and author. He has founded high-tech startups like G.ho.st, which at the time was considered the only high-tech startup with a joint Palestinian–Israeli team. In 2011 Schreiber was CEO of Lightech which he sold to GE Lighting. He is currently the CEO of startup logistics technology company Freightos, a ""leading sales automation platform for the logistics industry"" that he describes as the ""equivalent of Expedia/Orbitz/Kayak for the shipment of goods rather than people"". Schreiber has founded the following companies: In"
"funding from OurCrowd. Freightos is the trading name of Tradeos Limited, a Hong Kong company. Freightos is member of Airforwarders Association since January 2013. In August 2016, Freightos bought Spanish startup WebCargoNet. In March 2017, Freightos raised $25 million in Series B funding led by GE Ventures bringing the company's total funding to $50 million. Freightos provides features for uploading freight pricing contracts in Excel, a database for freight rates, and a module for automatic freight and quotations on the Web. The quotation algorithm includes routing of door-to-door freight services. The Freightos Network supports exchanging quote requests and quotes between"
"Ford made the surprise announcement to more than 1,000 SNC employees and guests at SNC’s year-end event in Denver. Fatih Ozmen Fatih Ozmen is the owner and CEO of Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). Best known publicly for the Dream Chaser spacecraft selected by NASA to move cargo to and from the International Space Station, Fast Company business magazine, in its April 2014 ""5 minute read"" section, named SNC to be one of the world's top 10 most innovative companies in space. Fatih Ozmen and his wife, Eren Ozmen, are the sole owners of SNC. Born in Turkey, the former Turkish"
"(SEDS). Later, Jeff Bezos became a chapter president of SEDS. In the 1990s, Diamandis, dissolute with the state of space development, decided to spur it on and spark the suborbital space tourism market, by initiating a prize, the X Prize. This led to Paul Allen becoming involved in the competition, creating the Scaled Composites Tier One platform of SpaceShipOne and White Knight One which won the Ansari X-Prize in the 2000s. The technology of the winning entrant was then licensed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group as a basis to found Virgin Galactic. The base techniques of Tier One also form"
"reusable sub-orbital spaceplane for space tourism. I-Space (Chinese company) i-Space (Chinese: 星际荣耀; pinyin; xīngjì róngyào; literally: ""Interstellar Glory""), also known as Space Honor or Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Ltd. is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing and founded in October 2016. As of August 2018, i-Space has successfully launched the Hyperbola-1S rocket into space twice on a suborbital flight. The Hyperbola-1S, also called SQX-1Z, is a single stage, solid-fueled test rocket. The rocket is long, with a diameter of and weighs . Its first sub-orbital test flight took place in April 2018. Its second flight was"
"then pursued other options for removing the pad from the Federal government inventory. By early 2013, NASA publicly announced that it would allow commercial launch providers to lease Pad 39A, and followed that, in May 2013, with a formal solicitation for proposals for commercial use of Launch Pad 39A. There were two competing bids for the commercial use of the launch complex. SpaceX submitted a bid for exclusive use of the launch complex, while Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin submitted a bid for shared non-exclusive use of the complex such that the launchpad would interface with multiple vehicles, and costs could"