A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch from West Texas. The New Shepard vehicle was developed by billionaire Jeff ...

Blue Origin plans to deliver moon gravity-style missions on spaceflights much closer to Earth. Starting in 2022, the company plans to meet a long-standing need to simulate lunar gravity — that ...

Blue Origin expects to provide the rotational capability starting in late 2022. Testing payloads under lunar conditions should help pave the way for NASA’s Artemis moon exploration program ...

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin simulated lunar gravity conditions today (Feb. 4) during the 29th launch of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle.

Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft successfully simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight Tuesday morning over West Texas. Video of the uncrewed launch ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will be providing NASA with a valuable scientific tool ahead of the U.S. space agency's goal ... It’s not like there aren’t already ways to simulate lunar gravity, ...

At a webinar in August, Erika Wagner, director of payloads at Blue Origin, said the company was studying options for lunar gravity flights. At the time Blue Origin was planning the first such ...

A newly announced upgrade to Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket system will serve as a new type of testbed for NASA's Moon exploration efforts, offering minutes of simulated lunar gravity by ...

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced its next launch of the New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral will be for a ...

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) February 4, 2025 Notably, Mission NS-29 simulated lunar gravity — an apparent first for a suborbital flight — with 29 of the rocket’s 30 payloads designed ...

Blue Origin’s first flight of this capability will target 11 rotations per minute to provide more than two minutes of continuous lunar gravity, ...