A new model of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle lifts off for the first time Oct. 23. Credit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — Blue Origin carried out the first flight of a new model of its ...

As a result, the failure rate of the vehicles would be in the range of 5 to 8 percent. As companies perform more commercial suborbital spaceflights, “obviously the number of commercial launches ...

CAS Space, a spinoff from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is working on a crewed suborbital vehicle of its own and could be up and running in a few years as well, if all goes according to plan.

Blue Origin conducted a successful uncrewed certification mission for its new model New Shepard suborbital vehicle and capsule on Wednesday (October 23rd). It was the first flight for the second ...

it launched to suborbital space from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site at 8:27 a.m. PT. This was the 27th flight of a New Shepard launch vehicle since 2015. All those missions used the same ...

New Shepard's 27th flight was on a vehicle with "expanded flight capacity ... New Shepard flights, which take place on a fully reusable suborbital rocket system, last 10 to 12 minutes from ...