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 TeraWave to provide high-speed communications to remote locations where fiber-optic deployment is difficult.
Blue Origin launched New Glenn for the second time two months before unveiling TeraWave and achieved the rocket's first booster landing on that flight.
Blue Origin intends TeraWave to be used in combination with existing fiber-optic networks to provide backup communications during fiber outages and maintenance.
Blue Origin aims to grow TeraWave to a maximum of 100,000 subscribers.
Blue Origin posted on X on 21 January 2026 that Blue Moon MK1 had departed Florida for testing in Thermal Vacuum Chamber A at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Blue Origin, led by Jeff Bezos, unveiled the TeraWave satellite communications network on January 21.
Data centers and governments are prioritized customer types for Blue Origin's TeraWave constellation.
Blue Moon MK1 is a configuration of the Blue Moon program, Blue Origin’s initiative to develop lunar landers.
Blue Origin is introducing TeraWave, a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth.
Blue Origin has introduced TeraWave™, a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth.
Blue Origin’s constellation will deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth.
Blue Origin filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) outlining plans and rationale for the TeraWave constellation.
Blue Origin plans to build a 5,408-satellite constellation in low Earth orbit and medium Earth orbit for corporate and government connectivity.
Blue Origin expects TeraWave to provide industries such as aviation, defense, and manufacturing with high-quality connectivity and to serve civil, defense, and national security government users.
Blue Origin positions TeraWave as purpose-built for enterprise customers including enterprise, data center, and government users.
The Blue Moon program is Blue Origin’s initiative dedicated to developing lunar landers for exploration missions.
Blue Origin projects customer link speeds of up to 144 Gbps on Q/V-band links from LEO and up to 6 Tbps on optical links from MEO.
Blue Origin is led by Dave Limp, a longtime Amazon executive who previously led Amazon Leo.
Blue Origin plans to begin deploying TeraWave in the fourth quarter of 2027.
Blue Origin designed TeraWave enterprise-grade terminals for rapid global deployment and to interface with existing high-capacity infrastructure to provide route diversity and network redundancy for secure operations.