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 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.
Under the revised plan Artemis 3 is scheduled to launch in 2027 but will remain in low Earth orbit to rendezvous and potentially dock with lunar landers launched by Blue Origin and/or SpaceX.
Both Blue Origin and SpaceX submitted acceleration plans last fall intended to speed up the availability of a lander for Artemis 3.
NASA has not released details of the acceleration plans submitted by Blue Origin and SpaceX for Artemis 3.
Astronauts on Artemis III will perform a docking with commercial lunar lander modules being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin while in low Earth orbit.
SpaceX and Blue Origin are contracted to develop lunar landers for NASA's Artemis program.
SpaceX and Blue Origin each have contracts with NASA to develop Human Landing Systems.
Artemis III will launch an Orion spacecraft with a four-person crew to rendezvous and dock in Earth orbit with either SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System, Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, or potentially both.
Artemis III will no longer attempt a lunar landing and will instead launch an Orion spacecraft with a four-person crew to rendezvous and dock in Earth orbit with SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System, Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, or potentially both.
Artemis III will use one or both Moon landers being developed by industry, specifically SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon, to test operations in lunar orbit.
The accelerated cargo-and-crew landing plan relies heavily on progress by SpaceX and Blue Origin, both of which have agreed to the revised timeline.
The commercial lunar landers in development referenced are SpaceX’s Starship HLS and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK2.
The accelerated cargo-and-crew approach for crewed landings in 2028 relies heavily on progress by SpaceX and Blue Origin.
NASA created a new Artemis III mission in which a crew capsule will dock with a lunar lander built by either SpaceX or Blue Origin.
Amazon Leo expanded its launch manifest to include 10 additional SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and 12 Blue Origin New Glenn missions to mitigate previous launch delays.
AST SpaceMobile encapsulated its BlueBird 7 (BB7) satellite within the payload fairing of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on February 19, 2026.
Amazon Leo expanded its launch manifest to include 10 additional SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and 12 Blue Origin New Glenn missions to mitigate previous launch delays.