Monday, December 1, 2025

Blue Origin's Blue Ring Spacecraft

From Space News: "Blue Origin advances Blue Ring spacecraft toward 2026 national security mission." From the article:

    Blue Origin said it has passed a key development milestone for its Blue Ring spacecraft, a maneuverable in-orbit transport vehicle designed for national security missions and backed by Pentagon funding.

    The company on Nov. 21 said “the Blue Ring team successfully integrated the flight vehicle’s primary structure and internal harnessing with the core propulsion module.” The spacecraft will now undergo additional checkout work before engineers move on to powering up the vehicle.

    Blue Ring is built to deliver, host and transport payloads in orbit and shift between orbits as missions require. Those movements fall under what the U.S. military calls “dynamic space operations,” a term used to describe spacecraft that can reposition themselves on demand — to gain a better sensor angle, avoid a threat, support another spacecraft or relocate payloads. Such maneuvering has become a priority for the Space Force as it eyes more resilient satellite architectures.

Our first space fighter?

2 comments:

  1. Blue leader standing by... Lock radiators in attack position...
    ;)

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