By Akash Sriram and Joey Roulette April 1 (Reuters) - NASA's Artemis II mission is shaping up to be more than just the next step in returning humans to the moon — it is a key test of whether the agency's traditional contractor-built systems can remain viable in a rapidly shifting space industry.

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Blue Origin's New Glenn is riding high after two successful missions in 2025, but when will billionaire Jeff Bezos' towering rocket launch again? Up next, the New Glenn launch vehicle is due to deploy some commercial satellites to low-Earth orbit as Blue ...

Project Sunrise satellites would interface with Blue Origin's planned TeraWave satellite internet to push AI-related processing off the planet.

Blue Origin and NASA are teaming up on a new mission to protect Earth from asteroids, building on NASA's DART success.

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has applied to launch up to 51,600 datacenter satellites. A Thursday filing argues that the US Federal Communications Commission should approve Blue Origin’s plans because “insatiable demand for AI workloads” means orbiting servers represent “a complement to terrestrial infrastructure by introducing a new compute tier that operates independently of Earth-based constraints.

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket launched the NS-36 crew from Launch Site One in West Texas. The crew included Jeff Elgin, Danna Karagussova, Dr. Clint Kelly III, Aaron Newman, Vitalii Ostrovsky, and Will Lewis,

The company said that it is targeting the launch of BlueBird-7 no earlier than April 10 aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn-3 mission. ・BlueBird-7 supports AST SpaceMobile’s direct-to-cell satellite network,