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In this week's Avid Space Industry Update Blue Origin announces multiple new technologies in the works, astronauts perform another successful spacewalk at the ISS and a new heavy-lift rocket is announced. Blue Origin Unveils Their Northstar Engine! - Weekly Spaceflight News | 6:22 Avid Space | 251K subscribers | 2,818 views | November 11, 2026

The launches include Starlink of Vandenberg, including the 700th Falcon 9 overall on the 31st, plus a couple of Electrons from Mahia and a run of Chinese vehicles. Galactic Energy put the first pathfinder for a low-inclination remote-sensing constellation up on a Ceres-1S from an offshore barge, while CAS Space flew the second Kinetica-2 (the liquid RP-1/LOX tri-core version) with another batch of Qianfan satellites. ISRO’s GSLV got NVS-03 into geosynchronous transfer orbit after the previous one’s failure, and Rocket Lab’s 99th Electron carried an iQPS SAR bird. On the bigger picture side, NASA laid out the Artemis Acceleration plan...

Ship 42 has fired its engines for the last time on the ground, and Elon Musk just made a promise about it that no Starship has ever kept. The FAA moved Flight 15. SpaceX hasn't said a date. We did, last episode, and the new one doesn't match ours. Musk also posted a launch number for Louisiana that makes the FAA's biggest Starbase plan look small. NASA stacked the Artemis III core stage and said who flies first. And ULA’s Vulcan rocket has a date you'll want to hear. So, when does Flight 15 fly? SpaceX's Starship 42 Fired Its...

Booster 22 fired up on Pad 2, and SpaceX wants to catch both halves of Starship on Flight 15. But to reach the tower, the ship has to fly home over land, something no Starship has ever done. Also: where Flight 16 really launches from, Ship 43 at Massey's, Starbase's 456-launch plan and the Louisiana spaceport, NASA's Artemis Acceleration briefing, and Blue Origin's New Glenn date. Booster 22 Just Fired! SpaceX Goes for a Double Catch | 23:36 What about it!? | 674K subscribers | 138,119 views | October 27, 2026

NASA Confirms SpaceX's Starship Refueling Estimate! | 17:21 Ellie in Space | 232K subscribers | 1,683 views | October 23, 2026

Blue Origin Works Towards Bringing New Glenn Back Online This Year - Weekly Spaceflight News | 9:23 Avid Space | 251K subscribers | 1,148 views | October 22, 2026

Blue Origin plans a $554.78 million manufacturing campus in Hutto that the company expects to add more than 2,000 jobs over the next decade, alongside an $18.171 million Texas Enterprise Fund grant. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the expansion on October 8. His office said Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC is constructing an advanced manufacturing and operations campus and that the state has extended the company a $10,000 Veteran Created Job Bonus in addition to the grant. Blue Origin described the campus, called Constellation Park, as a 1.3 million-square-foot complex with multiple facilities that will manufacture satellite and communications equipment. “Texas...

Why Is SpaceX Concerned About the Next Starship? | 25:53 Marcus House | 589K subscribers | 27,118 views | October 10, 2026

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos reflects on the explosion of one of his space company's rockets during an engine test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 'Special Report.' 'GUT PUNCH': Jeff Bezos reveals lessons learned from the Blue Origin rocket explosion | 5:35 Fox News Clips | 853K subscribers | 59,297 views | October 7, 2026

On Tuesday morning, we published an episode arguing that Starship's heat shield doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to be serviceable. On Tuesday afternoon, on SpaceX's very first earnings call as a public company, Elon Musk went further than we ever dared. Quote: "I'd consider the heat shield problem solved at this point." And that was just one hour of this call. A ship catch attempt at the end of this month. Operational Starlink V3 satellites on Flight 14. One Starship launch per day within a year. Boots on the Moon in 2028. All of it on the record,...

In this week's Avid Space industry update, Blue Origin continues the cleanup effort at LC-36, NASA's Office of the Inspector General releases a scathing report on NASA's handling of the Starliner contract with Boeing, and Northrop Grumman's last Pegasus XL rocket is launched to on a mission to rescue the Swift Space Observatory. Starliner Delays Costly - NASA Watchdog Demands Accountability Weekly Spaceflight News | 9:04 Avid Space | 29,051 views | July 8, 2026

Blue Origin CEO: New Glenn WILL Fly Again This Year! (Plus, I had a baby) | 16:28 Ellie in Space | 17,090 views | June 30, 2026

SpaceX has been moving at an incredible pace this week! Ship 40 completes a full six-engine static fire, Ship 41 begins cryogenic testing (twice), Ship 42 enters production, Booster 21 finishes stacking and Booster 22 is already underway. We also check out the latest Starbase Pad 1 and Pad 2 construction, plus huge progress at Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A and LC-37. Blue Origin has revealed major changes to New Glenn following the launch pad explosion, NASA has announced new Moon missions, Falcon 9, Atlas V and Amazon Kuiper continue launching, Rocket Lab acquires Iridium, the Canadarm2 is repaired during an...

The Artemis III announcement included the crew selection, but more importantly it gave us a look at what Blue Origin & SpaceX will be building and flying for the mission, and neither represent the full HLS hardware they're supposed to deliver for the lunar missions. Artemis III Won't Use Real Landers.... And That's OK. | 20:58 Scott Manley | 1.86M subscribers | 38,888 views | June 14, 2026

Update from CEO on Blue Origin Pad After Explosive Rocket Disaster! | 6:20 Ellie in Space | 225K subscribers | 55,342 views | June 2, 2026

We're starting to get some of the first daytime images of LC-36, giving us a much better view of the pad. For context, last night, a New Glenn rocket was conducting a static fire in preparation for its fourth mission when it exploded. Not only was the vehicle lost, but the launch pad suffered extensive damage. Now that it's day, we can see the extent to which it's damaged and what's left after the dramatic loss of the vehicle. A Closer Look At The Damage To New Glenn's Launch Pad | 8:00 TheSpaceBucket | 77.9K subscribers | 158,192 views |...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin exploded during a test at the launch pad Thursday night, shaking nearby homes and briefly painting the sky orange. Blue Origin said its New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test being conducted ahead of a satellite launch planned for next week. No one was hurt, according to officials at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. “It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it,” Bezos said via X. “Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to...

Via the Associated Press, a familiar (if dispiriting) incident in space exploration: A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin exploded during a test at the launch pad Thursday night, shaking nearby homes and briefly painting the sky orange. Blue Origin said its New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test being conducted ahead of a satellite launch planned for next week. No one was hurt, according to officials at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Watching this footage, it's kind of incredible that "no one was hurt!" VIDEO AT LINK............. The blowup from other angles is just as unbelievable: VIDEOS...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes on launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida

AXIOM released this statement after I published the video: "Axiom Space is delivering the most advanced spacesuit ever built for human lunar exploration -- and we're doing it with the urgency the Artemis campaign demands. To date, we've logged more than 950 hours of crewed pressurized testing, completed the first thermal vacuum test of the pressure garment, and delivered over 1,300 products toward critical design review, which we're on track to complete this year. We remain confident in our path to a 2027 demonstration and to supporting America's return to the lunar surface in 2028. "We appreciate the OIG's continued...