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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Blue Origin plans to conduct the 11th test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on 2019-05-02.
Phase 2 plans call for selecting two vendors from a field that would include United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman.
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 national security payloads.
Mu Space previously planned to procure a geostationary-orbit high-throughput communications satellite that will be launched in 2021 on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket.
United Launch Alliance selected Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine over the AR1 for the Vulcan launch vehicle in September 2018.
Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman were awarded a total of $2,300,000,000 in Launch Service Agreement (LSA) funding in October to develop next-generation rockets and supporting infrastructure.
Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman are developing new vehicles that are not expected to fly until 2021.
United Launch Alliance is developing the Vulcan Centaur rocket powered by Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine.
The largest single deal in 2018 was an estimated $750,000,000 invested in Blue Origin by Jeff Bezos.
Without LSA funding, Blue Origin would not build a New Glenn vertical integration facility required for some military payloads or a launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base for polar launches.
Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman were chosen in October by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to share $2,300,000,000 in Launch Service Agreement funding.
Blue Origin requests that the U.S. Air Force wait until 2021 before selecting the two companies to receive future national security launch contracts.
Blue Origin has invested $2,500,000,000 in New Glenn development, including building factories in Florida and Alabama.
Blue Origin asserts that selecting two providers in 2020 to split 60/40 contracts for up to 25 launches between 2022 and 2026 would forestall competition and advantage United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
Under Blue Origin’s LSA award, the Air Force agreed to provide Blue Origin up to $500,000,000 between 2019 and 2024 to prepare the reusable New Glenn rocket and associated infrastructure for military launches.
Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, which is developing the reusable New Glenn rocket to launch government and commercial satellites.
Jeff Bezos sells $1,000,000,000 in Amazon stock annually to fund Blue Origin.
Blue Origin has challenged the Air Force’s plan to select only two companies to provide launch services from 2022 to 2026.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and OneWeb secured over $1,000,000,000 in investments in 2017.
The Air Force made Launch Service Agreement cost-sharing awards in October to Blue Origin’s New Glenn ($500,000,000), Northrop Grumman’s OmegA ($792,000,000), and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur ($967,000,000).