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 completed a shock test on its MK1 lunar lander last week to simulate the environment generated when it separates from New Glenn.
NASA has awarded Blue Origin several Moon contracts.
Blue Origin remains a vendor under consideration to fly Artemis III no earlier than 2027.
Blue Origin plans to ramp up New Glenn flights quickly with a new pad design.
Blue Origin’s Endurance lunar lander is in development and its assembly is nearly complete.
Blue Origin plans to join rocket stages in a facility, ferry an already integrated New Glenn to the launch pad, crane it to a vertical position, and then mate payloads.
NASA is working with Blue Origin to understand recovery timelines and evaluate alternatives after the New Glenn launch vehicle anomaly.
Blue Origin expects the new New Glenn ground operations concept to increase flight cadence.
Blue Origin will mate New Glenn stages horizontally in the Integration Facility and then bring the integrated vehicle to the pad for a crane-assisted vertical breakover.
Blue Origin will modify LC-36A’s lightning tower with umbilicals.
Blue Origin aims to return New Glenn to flight in 2026.
Blue Origin will mate New Glenn’s payload after the vehicle is vertical at LC-36A.
Blue Origin plans to rebuild LC-36A for New Glenn using a horizontal/vertical hybrid configuration.
Blue Origin was already working on a similar horizontal/vertical hybrid configuration for New Glenn 9x4 at LC-36B.
NordSpace’s team includes personnel drawn from SpaceX, Firefly, Rocket Lab, and Blue Origin.
Blue Origin has hired more than 300 current employees who previously spent time at SpaceX.
About 130 current SpaceX employees previously worked for Blue Origin.
Axiom Space, Vast Space, and Blue Origin are managing forward production plans against NASA’s restructured Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations payment schedule.
Blue Origin completed wreckage recovery from start to finish in 9 days after May 28, 2026.
Blue Origin has started reconstruction at Launch Complex 36.