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 is planning to develop a new launch pad at Vandenberg, SLC-9.
Oasis-1 is part of Blue Origin's multi-phase initiative to locate, map, characterize, and utilize lunar resources.
In 2023, Blue Origin received $34.7 million from NASA as part of public-private Tipping Point contracts to build advanced lunar technologies.
Blue Origin is positioning itself as an end-to-end lunar transportation and resource company through Project Oasis, its aim to carry NASA’s VIPER rover, and in-space refueling.
Blue Origin is eligible to win NSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 contracts beginning in FY27, depending on the pace of New Glenn's certification program.
The Oasis-1 mission is a partnership involving Blue Origin, the Luxembourg Space Agency, ESA’s ESRIC institute, and GOMspace.
Blue Origin received no launch opportunities in the recent contract round due to its New Glenn rocket awaiting certification for national security launches.
The next launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket will send two Rocket Lab built ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars.
Blue Origin's next New Shepard crewed flight, NS-36, will lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Wednesday, October 8.
Blue Origin released the NS-36 mission patch.
USSF Space Systems Command did not award any contracts to Blue Origin.
This is the second lunar CLPS delivery assigned to Blue Origin.
The first lunar CLPS delivery from Blue Origin, using the Blue Moon Mark 1 lander, is scheduled for late 2023 and will transport NASA's stereo cameras and the laser retroreflection system to the lunar South Pole.
New Shepard is Blue Origin's fully reusable suborbital rocket system designed for human flights.
Blue Origin will deliver the VIPER rover to the lunar surface by the end of 2027 using a second Blue Moon MK1 lander currently in production.
Blue Origin is responsible for the complete landing mission architecture, including the design, analysis, and testing of a large lunar lander capable of safely transporting the rover.
The CLPS work order includes a base award for designing payload accommodations and demonstrating how Blue Origin's lander will deploy the rover on the lunar surface.
Blue Origin revealed the names of the crew set to fly on the upcoming New Shepard mission, NS-36.
Blue Origin's next opportunity for a mission is in fiscal year 2027.
Blue Origin will handle end-to-end integration, planning, and deployment support activities for the rover after landing.