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 still plans to fly again in 2026.
Blue Origin plans to provide more details on its new concept of operations soon.
Blue Origin cleared all debris from Launch Complex 36.
Blue Origin officials told auditors that Kennedy Space Center’s nitrogen constraint created a major scheduling challenge ahead of the New Glenn-1 mission in January 2025.
Blue Origin experienced a launch pad explosion that can set back launch operations for months.
Blue Origin’s NEO Hunter concept uses Blue Ring to study and deflect potentially hazardous asteroids.
Blue Origin developed Blue Ring for advanced space missions.
Blue Origin’s NEO Hunter mission concept tests ion-beam deflection and direct kinetic impact techniques for near-Earth objects.
Blue Origin developed Blue Ring as a platform for advanced space missions.
Blue Origin proposed Blue Ring as a central element of the NEO Hunter mission concept for studying and deflecting potentially hazardous asteroids.
Blue Origin and SpaceX are targeting lower-fidelity uncrewed mission demonstrations before carrying crew.
NASA wants Blue Origin to launch its robotic Blue Moon Mark 1 lander on a rocket other than New Glenn.
The Artemis III mission aims to dock the crew’s Orion spacecraft with prototype lunar landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX in low Earth orbit to test key systems and reduce risks ahead of Artemis IV.
The Office of Inspector General found that the Blue Origin and SpaceX missions would not simulate the full-scale profile of their respective crewed landing flights.
Blue Origin’s lander prototype may launch on ULA’s Vulcan rocket or SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy if New Glenn is not available in time.
Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lander was scheduled to launch later this year.
Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 2 lander is not required to return to lunar orbit after its surface mission in the current plan.
Blue Origin’s and SpaceX’s lunar landers are not expected to be ready until late 2027 at the earliest.
Blue Origin’s Artemis III lander prototype will not fly with cryogenic fuel.
Artemis III will demonstrate rendezvous and docking operations with commercial lunar landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX.