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 had planned up to 12 launches in 2026 before the FAA grounding and 2CAT facility damage threatened that schedule.
Blue Origin holds a backlog of missions for Eutelsat, Telesat, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper.
BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower-than-planned orbit during a Blue Origin New Glenn 3 mission launched on April 19 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Blue Origin conducted modal tests on Endurance using dedicated sensors to measure how the lunar lander will respond to launch conditions.
Blue Origin completed the first structural tests on its lunar lander Endurance ahead of launch from Florida.
ULA’s Vulcan rocket and Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket are currently grounded.
Blue Origin performed the Endurance tests with the lander integrated on representative New Glenn configurations.
Blue Origin is leading the anomaly investigation for NG-3 with FAA oversight.
Blue Origin’s first Blue Moon Mark 1 lunar lander completed thermal vacuum chamber testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas before returning to Blue Origin’s Florida facilities for final tests.
Blue Origin placed AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 satellite into an off-nominal orbit on NG-3.
Blue Origin needs four successful launches to certify New Glenn for military launches.
Blue Origin flew a reused New Glenn booster on the NG-3 mission for the first time.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 19 for its third flight.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn booster named Never Tell Me The Odds previously flew on NG-2 in November and landed on the company’s ship Jacklyn in the Atlantic.
Blue Origin replaced the seven BE-4 engines between the NG-2 and NG-3 missions.
Blue Origin expected to launch its Blue Moon Mark 1 lunar lander by the summer before the NG-3 failure.
Blue Origin identified insufficient thrust from one BE-3U engine during the second GS2 burn as the likely cause of the NG-3 orbital insertion failure.
The Blue Origin New Glenn variant is grounded pending a post-launch review.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn upper stage failed to deploy AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird #7 into its intended orbit.
Blue Origin's transporter is likely to pick up GS1-7E03 "No, It's Necessary" at the Rocket Park facility.