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 aims to establish a dedicated platform for suborbital spaceflight through missions like NS-37.
Earlier in 2025, Viasat's telemetry relay capabilities were demonstrated onboard Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket under NASA's Communications Service Project.
Blue Origin is developing the New Glenn rocket to fundamentally alter the economics of heavy-lift launch.
New Glenn allows Blue Origin to refine refurbishment operations and lower costs for third-party customers, including NASA and the US Space Force.
K2 Space designs massive, high-power platforms intended to maximize the throw-weight capabilities of next-generation launch vehicles like SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s New Glenn.
The New Glenn GS2 is a key component of Blue Origin's orbital launcher architecture.
Blue Origin is ramping up production of the GS2 second stages.
Blue Origin successfully completed a 15-second hotfire test of the GS2 second stage with serial number 4.
Blue Origin is solidifying its path towards the first flight of the New Glenn program.
K2 Space plans to launch its Giga line of satellites, which require a super-heavy rocket like SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s New Glenn.
Blue Origin's technology is likely to be integrated into or deployed alongside the Blue Ring, the company’s multi-mission orbital platform designed for logistics and hosting.
Blue Origin is developing an 'Orbital Data Center' to pivot toward high-margin downstream services.
By internalizing data processing capabilities, Blue Origin is positioning itself to compete directly against traditional data processing providers.
Blue Origin is shifting its strategy to move beyond launch services (New Glenn) and suborbital tourism (New Shepard) into the space services sector.
The crew of the Blue Origin NS-37 mission includes Michaela (Michi) Benthaus, Joey Hyde, Hans Koenigsmann, Neal Milch, Adonis Pouroulis, and Jason Stansell.
Blue Origin is actively hiring software and hardware engineers to build space-hardened computing infrastructure for orbital data processing.
Blue Origin has flown 86 people above the Kármán line, which is the internationally recognized boundary of space.
Blue Origin's space-based edge computing seeks to solve the bandwidth bottleneck associated with traditional satellite operations.
Blue Origin intends to capture the processing value chain by offering a 'server rack in the sky' for government and commercial clients requiring ultra-low latency intelligence.
An agreement between Optimum Technologies and Blue Origin will integrate the OpTech Caracal optical payload onboard the first mission of Blue Ring.