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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Harris Corporation will work with Blue Origin to develop satellite antennas optimized for the New Glenn rocket.
Blue Origin is supporting The Moon Race initiative alongside the European Space Agency and Airbus to foster the next generation of lunar exploration using Blue Moon and New Glenn.
Blue Moon is a large lunar lander that Blue Origin is designing in the conceptual design phase to provide reusable access to the lunar surface and its resources.
Blue Origin joins an industry team for Vulcan that includes Aerojet Rocketdyne providing the RL10 engine for the rocket's upper stage, Northrop Grumman supplying solid-fuel strap-on boosters, L-3 Avionics Systems providing the rocket's avionics, and Ruag supplying the rocket's payload fairing.
United Launch Alliance will use a pair of Blue Origin BE-4 engines using liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first stage of its Vulcan rocket expected to make a first launch in mid-2020.
On 2018-09-27 United Launch Alliance selected Blue Origin's LOX/LNG BE-4 engine to power the first stage of the Vulcan rocket.
In April 2017, Tory Bruno was waiting for Blue Origin to complete a set of tests of the BE-4 before making a decision.
The ULA–Blue Origin announcement comes four years after the companies first announced their partnership to develop the BE-4.
Blue Origin will develop a production facility for its BE-4 engine in Huntsville over the next year.
United Launch Alliance selected Blue Origin to provide the main engine for its next-generation Vulcan launch vehicle on 2018-09-27.
Blue Origin performed several hundred seconds of BE-4 firing, including an over 200-second firing.
Jeff Bezos will invest $1,000,000,000 next year in Blue Origin to further development of New Glenn, a heavy-lift launch vehicle anticipated to fly in late 2020.
Blue Origin is developing its first orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, to transition customers from competitors' rockets.
Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines burn methane and are being developed to power the New Glenn orbital rocket.
Blue Origin won two Tipping Point contracts with a combined value of $13,000,000 to develop cryogenic propulsion systems for a lunar lander and advanced sensors for landing on the lunar surface.
Stout highlighted that companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin space companies, and United Launch Alliance are reducing costs for access to low Earth orbit.
In October 2012 Blue Origin simulated a booster failure on the launch pad and achieved a successful escape.
In October 2016 Blue Origin simulated a booster failure in-flight at Max Q and achieved a completely successful escape of the capsule.
mu Space, a Thai company that ordered a launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn orbital rocket in 2017, included a package with several experiments from universities and organizations in Thailand on this New Shepard flight.
Blue Origin’s first New Shepard launch in April 2015 featured a successful takeoff and separation of the crew capsule, and the capsule landed under parachutes.