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 plans to achieve RF download and upload speeds up to 144 Gbps and optical link speeds up to 6 Tbps.
Blue Origin will deploy a constellation of 5,408 satellites in low Earth orbit and medium Earth orbit.
Blue Origin targets customers seeking higher throughput, symmetrical upload/download speeds, more redundancy, and rapid scalability.
Blue Origin owns the reusable New Glenn rocket and can use it to conduct launches for its constellation.
Blue Origin has flown 92 humans representing 86 individuals above the Kármán line.
Blue Origin’s current constellation design will be able to serve approximately 100,000 customers.
Blue Origin characterizes the TeraWave multi-orbit design as enabling ultra-high-throughput links between global hubs and distributed multigigabit user connections, particularly in remote, rural, and suburban areas.
Blue Origin intends to use its own heavy-lift rockets for the majority of TeraWave’s constellation deployment as a vertical integration strategy to manage capital costs and meet regulatory deployment milestones.
Blue Origin plans to deploy TeraWave, a new constellation of optically linked satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO).
Blue Origin requested a waiver of FCC processing round rules for NGSO systems for the TeraWave filing, arguing the system is designed to share spectrum and would not preclude additional operators in the same band.
Blue Origin is targeting remote, rural, and suburban areas with its optically interconnected constellation where diverse fiber paths are costly, technically infeasible, or slow to deploy.
Blue Origin assigned the name Endurance to the Blue Moon MK1 lander.
Blue Origin scheduled liftoff of New Shepard Mission NS-38 from Launch Site One in West Texas for Thursday, January 22 with a launch window opening at 9:30 a.m. EST.
Blue Origin positions TeraWave enterprise-grade user and gateway terminals as rapidly deployable worldwide and as able to interface with existing high-capacity infrastructure to provide route diversity and strengthen network resilience.
Blue Origin is developing TeraWave, a 5,408-satellite communications network.
Blue Origin appointed former United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno as President of Blue Origin’s National Security Group.
Lindo St. Angel leads TeraWave as senior vice president of Emerging Systems at Blue Origin.
Jeff Bezos founded both Amazon and Blue Origin, and Amazon and Blue Origin operate as separate companies.
Blue Origin will begin deployment of its 5,408-satellite constellation in Q4 2027.
Blue Origin’s satellites will be optically interconnected in low Earth orbit and medium Earth orbit to enable ultra-high-throughput links between global hubs and distributed, multigigabit user connections.