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 has two New Glenn rocket first stages shown in the image.
GS1-7E03 is Blue Origin's third New Glenn first stage booster built to date.
Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers are intended to provide frequent, low-cost, high-mass access to the lunar surface.
Blue Origin rolled GS1-3 "No, It's Necessary" out of its factory and sent it to LC-36.
GS1-3 "No, It's Necessary" is Blue Origin's third New Glenn first stage booster built to date.
AST SpaceMobile’s seventh operational broadband satellite, BlueBird 7, ended up in a lower-than-planned orbit after a Blue Origin New Glenn launch from Kennedy Space Center on April 19.
The CoBR hardware cleared the final environmental verification milestone before its planned flight on Blue Origin’s Blue Ring spacecraft.
Blue Origin has scheduled Blue Ring’s first mission for 2026.
Blue Origin’s Blue Ring is a multi-mission spacecraft developed by Blue Origin’s In-Space Systems business unit.
CoBR pairs the Caracal sensor with Blue Origin’s Blue Ring for the first fully commercial GEO space domain awareness mission.
The 13 CLPS contractors are Astrobotic Technology, Blue Origin, Ceres Robotics, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, Lockheed Martin Space, Moon Express, Orbit Beyond, Redwire Space Sensors, Sierra Space, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
Blue Origin was targeting an April 10 launch for the NG-3 mission before the 2CAT facility damage surfaced.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn booster achieved its first reuse on the April 19 mission.
NASA selected Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander to provide a secondary, redundant path to the lunar surface.
The 2CAT facility serves as the final certification stop for Blue Origin upper stages before integration with the first-stage booster at Launch Complex 36.
Satellite imagery showed structural damage to Blue Origin’s Second Stage Cleaning and Test (2CAT) facility at Exploration Park.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn mission Flight 3 (NG-3) failed to deliver an AST SpaceMobile BlueBird satellite into its target orbit.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp attributed the New Glenn upper-stage failure to one of the two BE-3U engines producing insufficient thrust during the second vacuum burn.
The FAA has issued an indefinite launch moratorium for Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket after a mission failure on April 19.
The FAA must approve Blue Origin’s final report and corrective actions before New Glenn can return to flight.