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 seeking to raise $10 billion at a $130 billion valuation.
Blue Origin is now working on design and major repairs before systems integration and final launch preparations.
Blue Origin continues to build New Glenn vehicles at its manufacturing facilities while pad reconstruction continues.
Under Blue Origin’s revised launch operations concept, a crane raises New Glenn into vertical position, places it on a refurbished launch table, and connects umbilicals from the main tower.
Blue Origin plans to return its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket to flight by the end of 2026.
Blue Origin’s revised launch operations concept uses existing facilities to mate New Glenn horizontally before rolling the vehicle to the pad on a transporter.
Blue Origin has completed site securing, recovery, cleanup, pad cleanup, and debris removal as the first two phases of its five-phase recovery plan.
Under Blue Origin’s revised launch operations concept, payloads are transported to the pad base and lifted onto the stacked launch vehicle before launch.
Blue Origin’s tank farm, integration facility, vehicle access tower, and water tower at Launch Complex 36 remained in good condition after the May 28 incident.
Blue Origin relocated the test article nicknamed Never Tell Me the Odds and three GS2 stages from the integration facility during recovery.
Blue Origin is rebuilding its launch operations around a horizontal and vertical hybrid integration concept rather than restoring Launch Complex 36 to its previous configuration.
Blue Origin’s new launch operations concept is intended to be a common approach for multiple pads supporting New Glenn’s nine-engine first stage and four-engine upper stage.
Blue Origin’s team adjusted Endurance’s struts to the installation length during the BE-7 engine fit check.
Blue Origin’s team lifted the BE-7 engine into position on Endurance to fit, trim, and weld the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen feedlines.
NASA awarded SpaceX the Human Landing System contract in 2021 over Blue Origin’s and Dynetics’ proposals.
Blue Origin will repair and modify the LC-36A lightning tower to accommodate its new vertical ConOps.
Blue Origin is taking down the lightning tower at LC-36A in segments.
Blue Origin plans to fly New Glenn again this year.
Blue Origin’s next test for the MK1 lunar lander is full vehicle separation testing.
Blue Origin positioned 21 accelerometers around the MK1 lunar lander to characterize its shock response.