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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On February 2, 2026 Blue Origin posted on X that the Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander arrived in Houston.
On February 2, 2026 U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered a policy address at Blue Origin’s Rocket Factory in Merritt Island, Florida that marked an expansion of the Department of Defense’s acquisition reforms into the space domain.
Blue Origin will pause crewed New Shepard flights for at least two years.
Amazon booked almost all of its initial deployment capacity on three launch vehicles that had not yet flown or were in early testing: ULA’s Vulcan, Arianespace’s Ariane 6, and Blue Origin’s New Glenn.
Blue Origin will pause New Shepard flights for no less than two years to further accelerate development of the company's human lunar capabilities.
Amazon initially diversified launch bookings across United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, and Blue Origin.
Blue Origin holds the contract for the fifth planned mission of the Artemis program.
Blue Origin aims to compete with SpaceX in the orbital flight market.
Blue Origin carried out two uncrewed orbital flights using its New Glenn rocket in the prior year.
Blue Origin will reassign resources from New Shepard crewed flights to accelerate development of human lunar capabilities.
NASA requested acceleration approaches from both Blue Origin and SpaceX for speeding up lunar landings as part of Human Landing System contract oversight.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn is slated to fly for the third time in late February.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard tourist flights provide roughly ten minutes of microgravity at the edge of space.
Dave Limp is the chief executive officer of Blue Origin.
On January 22, 2026 Blue Origin conducted the NS-38 New Shepard suborbital launch from its Launch Site One in West Texas.
Blue Origin plans to refurbish and reflown the NG-2 booster within roughly three months for the NG-3 mission to demonstrate rapid turnaround capability.
Phil Joyce is senior vice president for New Shepard at Blue Origin.
Starting with NG-3, Blue Origin is phasing in performance upgrades to New Glenn that include higher-thrust engine variants and a reusable fairing.
Blue Origin targets no earlier than late February 2026 for the New Glenn-3 launch from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral.
Blue Origin's New Glenn-3 (NG-3) mission will deploy AST SpaceMobile’s first next-generation Block 2 BlueBird satellite.