“This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it,” Jarrett Jones, senior vice president of New Glenn, said in a ...
It's even considered closer to space than to any Earth land mass. The Kármán line, known as the boundary of space, is 62 miles above Earth. Astronauts aboard the ISS in equatorial low-Earth ...
[Joe] at BPS.space has a thing for rockets, and his latest quest is to build a rocket that will cross the Kármán Line and launch into the Final Frontier. And being the owner of a YouTube ...
The Karman Line serves a dual purpose as both a regulatory boundary for airspace and a legal benchmark. As a regulator, it signifies an approximate altitude where conventional aircraft face ...
Doing that on a maiden flight would be unprecedented: that kind of partial reusability was pioneered by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s ...
However, the Karman line is recognised by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) as the edge of space. It's 100 kilometres (about 62 miles) above sea level. Blue Origin went through ...
Its current product, New Shepard, is a toy. (It cannot reach orbit. It merely carries rich tourists above the Karman line, 100km up, which is the official boundary of outer space.) But that will ...
In 2021, Bezos rode Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket above the Kármán line as part of the company’s first space tourism mission. One year earlier, in 2020, Bezos founded the Bezos Earth Fund ...