Blue Origin, founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, is an American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company. It develops reusable rocket engines, launch vehicles like New Shepard and New Glenn, in-space systems, and lunar landers such as Blue Moon. Blue Origin is also a NASA partner, collaborating on the Artemis program for lunar exploration and working towards a sustainable human presence on the Moon, with partners like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Draper. Key activities include space tourism, satellite deployment capabilities, and advancing technologies to lower space travel costs.
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In April 2026, AST SpaceMobile lost its BlueBird 7 satellite after a Blue Origin launch vehicle experienced an upper stage malfunction.
MoffettNathanson estimated that Blue Origin is at least 10 years behind SpaceX in heavy-lift reuse development.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn has followed Falcon 9 in booster recovery and reuse.
The Canada Rocket Company employs an engineering team with experience from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab.
Blue Origin plans to return its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket to flight by the end of this year after a pad-side anomaly during a hotfire test in late May at Launch Complex 36 in Florida.
Blue Origin has completed the first two phases of a five-phase New Glenn recovery plan and is working on design and repair work tied to a new operations concept.
Blue Origin has completed pad cleanup and debris removal at Launch Complex 36 in Florida and has begun reconstruction work.
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur and Blue Origin’s New Glenn are among the programs affected by the Inconel 718 shortage.
Amazon has secured up to 27 launches on Blue Origin’s New Glenn for its internet constellation.
Blue Origin is testing New Glenn as a super heavy lift launch vehicle.
Blue Origin is raising up to 10 billion dollars in a private financing round on July 8, 2026.
Blue Origin’s hardware manufacturing facilities in Huntsville, Alabama, and Kent, Washington, remain unaffected and fully funded.
NASA awarded Blue Origin a $3.4 billion contract in 2023 to support crewed lunar landings.
Blue Origin is expected to receive $4 billion from other institutional investors in its new funding round.
Coatue Management is expected to contribute $4 billion to Blue Origin’s new funding round.
NASA awarded Blue Origin a $188 million contract in May to launch two rovers to the lunar South Pole by 2028.
Blue Origin is targeting a return to flight of New Glenn before the end of the year.
Blue Origin is working on Orbital Reef with Sierra Space and other partners.
Blue Origin unveiled TeraWave in January as an enterprise satcom network designed to deliver 6-Tbps connectivity through a constellation of more than 5,400 satellites.
Blue Origin is a prime contractor for NASA’s human landing system under the Artemis lunar initiative and for Space Systems Command national security launch missions.