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 intends to expand into infrastructure services in addition to its launch activities and development of space systems.
The burn-through on the solid rocket booster nozzle joint section was oriented toward the Blue Origin BE-4 engines.
AST SpaceMobile plans to launch BlueBird 7 aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket no earlier than late February 2026.
Both SpaceX Falcon Heavy and Blue Origin New Glenn offer upper-stage dry masses in the ranges considered useful for the proposed approach, approximately 4.5–6 tons for Falcon-derived upper stages and 10–12 tons for New Glenn upper stages.
Atlas V, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan accounted for the non-SpaceX orbital launches from the Eastern Range in 2025.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp placed New Shepard space tourism flights on a two-year hold so Blue Origin could focus on its lunar program.
Blue Origin and Axiom Space are working on plans to build commercial space stations.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn may be available to support Commercial Lunar Payload Service missions with Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark I launcher and may support human return with Mark II.
The New Glenn upper stage was modeled in Astrox’s SpaceSIDE using a component-based subsystem approach due to lack of Blue Origin published subsystem weights.
Blue Origin was selected in 2023 as a second lander option for future Artemis missions.
SpaceX and Blue Origin submitted plans to NASA outlining how they could send American astronauts to the Moon before 2030.
Blue Origin develops launch vehicles, rocket engines, a lunar lander, and the Blue Ring in-space mobility vehicle.
Blue Origin will build TeraWave, a constellation of optically linked satellites in Low-Earth Orbit and Medium-Earth Orbit geared toward enterprise users and data centers.
Blue Origin described TeraWave as targeting around 100,000 customers.
Blue Origin has paused its space tourism flights to focus resources on lunar activities.
The Blue Moon MK-1 lunar lander is part of Blue Origin’s lunar program focused on developing lunar landing capabilities.
On February 4, 2026 the NASA Johnson Space Center received the Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark 1 lunar lander at its Houston facilities.
NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 is a more commercial-like acquisition tier designed to integrate newer rockets from Blue Origin and Rocket Lab alongside established incumbents.
The Pentagon is pushing for three viable domestic heavy-lift providers and is focusing in 2026 on certification of Blue Origin’s New Glenn and Rocket Lab’s Neutron.
Blue Moon MK1 is part of Blue Origin’s lunar program focused on developing systems for transport and landing on the lunar surface.