News Blue Origin Won Aviation Week's Laureate Award for Space 2017

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Aviation Week’s 2017 Laureate Awards Finalists

SPACE

Blue Origin, for successful reuse of the New Shepard suborbital booster on a total of five flights, culminating in inflight abort test on the final mission.

The Juno Team on NASA's Discovery program, setting a precedent in using only solar arrays for power on missions to the outer Solar System.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Dawn orbiter, the first space probe to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, including the first visit to a dwarf planet.

Space Exploration Technologies, for recovery of multiple Falcon 9 first stages on land and at sea, and the first sale of a reused booster to a customer.

Source:http://laureates.aviationweek.com/la17/Public/Content.aspx?ID=1064066&sortMenu=103001
 
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