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Blue Origin pauses New Shepard flights for at least two years — Static01.nyt.com

Blue Origin pauses New Shepard flights for at least two years

Blue Origin announced on Friday that it will pause launches of its New Shepard suborbital rocket for at least two years to focus on work for NASA’s upcoming moon missions. New Shepard flights have lifted off from the company’s site in West Texas. The small, reusable New Shepard

NASA’s ADEPT umbrella-like aerobrake adapted for Blue Origin Moon and Mars cargo — Nasa.gov

NASA’s ADEPT umbrella-like aerobrake adapted for Blue Origin Moon and Mars cargo

NASA’s ADEPT (Adaptable Deployable Entry and Placement Technology), an umbrella-like deployable entry system developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center, is being adapted to serve as an aerobrake to slow spacecraft for future Blue Origin lunar and Martian cargo deliveries as well as Earth-return applications, the agency says. ADEPT

Companies pursue space-based data centers to cut energy and cooling loads — Api.time.com

Companies pursue space-based data centers to cut energy and cooling loads

Time reports that a growing group of companies — including Blue Origin, Google, Open AI and several startups — are exploring moving data centers into space to address the sector’s mounting energy and cooling demands. On Earth, data centers already consume large shares of power and water: the Pew Research Center

German Paraplegic Engineer Becomes First Wheelchair User on Blue Origin Suborbital Flight — Static01.nyt.com

German Paraplegic Engineer Becomes First Wheelchair User on Blue Origin Suborbital Flight

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old paraplegic aerospace engineer from Germany, became the first wheelchair user to travel on a suborbital flight when she rode Blue Origin’s New Shepard from West Texas on Saturday. The fully automated capsule launched at 8:15 a.m. local time and the roughly 10-minute mission

NASA launches ESCAPADE twin orbiters to study how Mars lost its atmosphere — Static01.nyt.com

NASA launches ESCAPADE twin orbiters to study how Mars lost its atmosphere

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched to space on Thursday aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, sending two small twin orbiters bound for Mars. The pair, named Blue and Gold, are each about the size of a mini fridge and are designed to study how Mars went from having a