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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NASA selected 11 companies, including Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin, on 2019-05-16 to design descent modules and transfer stages with awards totaling $45,500,000.
One of Maxar’s partners is Blue Origin, which is developing the New Glenn heavy-lift rocket slated to enter service in 2021.
In October 2018 the Air Force awarded Launch Service Agreements that provided $2,300,000,000 to ULA, Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin to support development of next-generation rockets and infrastructure.
The Air Force awarded LSA cost-sharing contracts of $500,000,000 to Blue Origin, $967,000,000 to United Launch Alliance, and $762,000,000 to Northrop Grumman.
Blue Origin planned to hot fire the BE-7 engine for the first time in the summer following the 2019-05-09 event.
Blue Origin’s public timeline reiterates plans to begin launching people on New Shepard in the year of the 2019-05-09 event and to carry out a first orbital launch of New Glenn in 2021.
NASA awarded Blue Origin two Tipping Point program awards in August 2018 to mature cryogenic fluid management and to test landing technologies such as lidars and altimetry sensors for the lander.
Blue Origin can meet the U.S. Administration's goal of putting Americans on the Moon by 2024 using the Blue Moon lunar lander.
Jeff Bezos presented a BE-7 engine that Blue Origin intends to use on the Blue Moon lander at the 2019-05-09 event.
Blue Origin plans to test a full Blue Moon lander with both descent and ascent stages in 2024 with astronauts on board, followed by a crewed landing using the system by the end of 2024.
Jeff Bezos presented a full-sized model of the Blue Moon lunar lander at an invitation-only Blue Origin event in Washington on 2019-05-09.
Blue Origin had been working on the BE-7 engine for three years as of the 2019-05-09 event.
Blue Moon is a large lunar lander developed by Blue Origin capable of delivering multiple metric tons of payload to the lunar surface depending on configuration and mission.
Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman were collectively awarded Launch Service Agreement contracts in October worth $2,300,000,000 to help partially fund vehicle development and build infrastructure for national security payload launches.
Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman were collectively awarded Launch Service Agreement contracts worth $2,300,000,000 in October to help partially fund vehicle development and build launch infrastructure for Phase 2.
The New Shepard NS-11 mission lifted off at approximately 9:35 a.m. Eastern from Blue Origin’s test site in West Texas.
Blue Origin plans to fly people on New Shepard later in 2019.
Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on the NS-11 mission on 2019-05-02.
Blue Origin scheduled the 11th New Shepard flight for 2019-05-02 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern from the company’s test site in West Texas.
The Federal Aviation Administration published a Notice to Airmen restricting airspace surrounding Blue Origin’s West Texas test site for a four-day period starting 2019-05-02.