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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With the full activation of the SCS calibration system, Blue Origin consolidates its role in Earth observation technologies, significantly improving the reliability of oceanographic measurements.
Blue Origin's SCS calibration system has been officially commissioned onboard the Copernicus Sentinel-6B satellite.
Viasat has upcoming demonstrations of HaloNet with Blue Origin and NASA.
Blue Origin announced that the crew for its NS-37 mission includes Michaela (Michi) Benthaus, Joey Hyde, Hans Koenigsmann, Neal Milch, Adonis Pouroulis, and Jason Stansell.
Blue Origin's space experience flights utilize the New Shepard rocket for suborbital flights, allowing passengers to experience approximately five minutes of weightlessness.
Blue Origin's NS-37 mission is the next scheduled mission for the New Shepard program as of December 3, 2025.
Isaacman emphasized the need for a competitive technology race between SpaceX's Starship program and Blue Origin's Blue Moon project.
The rocket and capsule of New Shepard are reusable, and Blue Origin has not disclosed the ticket price for each seat.
Blue Origin has flown 86 people (80 individuals) above the Kármán line to date.
Blue Origin announced the six passengers for the upcoming spaceflight NS-37 on December 3, 2023.
Jared Isaacman believes that competition between SpaceX and Blue Origin is beneficial.
Applied Aerospace's customers include L3Harris, Sierra Space, Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin, and NASA.
Blue Origin has transitioned from a test project to a product with New Glenn.
Blue Origin plans to develop a 'Block 2' variant of the New Glenn rocket to increase payload performance.
Blue Origin's New Glenn demonstrates engineering management capabilities that can extend to lunar lander development.
Blue Origin is introducing a new super-heavy class rocket variant named New Glenn 9×4.
Blue Origin's New Glenn has completed a successful test campaign similar to Saturn V.
Optimum Technologies and Blue Origin have reached an agreement to integrate the OpTech next-generation Caracal optical payload onboard Blue Ring's first mission.
Blue Origin should expand its lunar lander contract to include an interim lander.
The 'Block 2' variant aims to help Blue Origin compete for a larger share of the launch market and the Kuiper and National Security Space Launch bids.