The MTO, which Blue Origin says could lift off by 2028, is designed to deliver much higher bandwidth to Red Planet spacecraft ...

Jef Bezos's Blue Origin is preparing for a Mars mission. The New Glenn rocket will launch NASA's ESCAPADE probes in September ...

Blue Origin is offering a version of Blue Ring as a Mars communications orbiter as it and others propose ways to provide ...

New Glenn will also carry a secondary payload as a part of the NG-2 launch. A technology demonstration from satellite ...

Blue Origin is readying its New Glenn rocket for its second launch, designated NG-2, with a target date of no earlier than ...

Blue Origin has proposed the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) to support NASA’s Mars exploration missions. Set for a ...

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin announced the arrival of the Blue Ring-based Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) ...

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is set to launch NASA's Mars mission in September 2025, preceding any Mars-bound mission from Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

For decades, NASA built and flew its own relay orbiters and spacecraft to ferry valuable data back to Earth. Now the agency ...

Blue Origin is reaching from low Earth orbit to Mars. NASA gave Blue Origin a task order to launch a Mars mission known as Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE).

NASA is moving from operating its own Mars relay network to purchasing connectivity as a service, prompting aerospace companies including Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and Lockheed Martin to ...

Blue Origin is among six companies that will help NASA learn how orbital transfer vehicles can deliver spacecraft to ...