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 and SpaceX are developing commercial orbital habitats, but progress on those habitats has been slower than expected.
Redwire is manufacturing multiple arrays for Blue Origin’s multi-orbit space mobility platform Blue Ring.
NASA considered Blue Origin’s New Glenn upper stage for evaluation.
AST SpaceMobile plans to launch Block 2 BlueBird satellites in tranches of eight aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn-3 rocket.
Sierra Space’s September 2023 Series B was intended to boost production of the Dream Chaser spaceplane and to support investment in the Orbital Reef commercial space station bid with Blue Origin.
Orbital Reef is Sierra Space’s commercial space station bid in partnership with Blue Origin.
Blue Origin completed its Florida lunar production facility in September 2025.
Blue Origin will suspend New Shepard flights for at least two years.
Blue Origin completed a $9.25 million lunar production facility in Florida and employs 4,000 people in the state.
After the NG-2 (EscaPADE) mission in November 2025, Blue Origin completed two of the four flights required for NSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 certification.
Blue Origin is at the halfway mark for National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 certification.
The updated Artemis III mission will endeavor to include a rendezvous and docking with one or both commercial landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin and in-space tests of the docked vehicles.
Blue Origin is advancing a "9×4" super-heavy lift configuration of the New Glenn rocket alongside its TeraWave satellite network.
Blue Origin posted production engineering positions at Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral to scale infrastructure to support the increased thrust of the 9×4 variant and faster booster refurbishment cycles.
By developing the 9×4 launch variant and the TeraWave constellation, Blue Origin is positioning itself as both a launch provider and a data infrastructure company competing for defense contracts that require secure, low-latency space-based data centers.
Blue Origin is preparing the NG-3 mission to carry AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation Block 2 BlueBird satellite.
Blue Origin is preparing the NG-4 mission to debut the Blue Moon Mark 1 uncrewed lunar lander.
Blue Origin is recruiting for specialized roles in in-house Hall thruster development, custom silicon design, and National Security Space Launch certification management.
Artemis III will practice rendezvous and docking maneuvers with one or both commercial landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin in low Earth orbit.
The Artemis III LEO rehearsal will test commercial lunar landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin before attempting a crewed lunar surface landing with Artemis IV in 2028.