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 provides a service to experience space with its New Shepard rocket and successfully launched its New Glenn rocket.
Blue Origin has developed a concept for a Mars communications satellite using its Blue Ring spacecraft that could deliver up to 1,250 kilograms of payload to low Martian orbit and then maneuver to a higher orbit to serve as a communications relay.
In 2023, NASA awarded $15 million to Project Harmonia, led by Zeno Power, which includes Blue Origin and Intuitive Machines.
Blue Origin created a concept for a Mars communications satellite using its Blue Ring spacecraft and presented that Blue Ring could deliver up to 1,250 kilograms of payloads to low Martian orbit before maneuvering to a higher orbit to serve as a communications relay.
Turkish businessman Gökhan Erdem participated in Blue Origin’s NS-34 mission on 3 August 2025, marking the 14th crewed flight of the New Shepard program.
Blue Origin has completed six launches in 2025 amid rising demand for commercial suborbital spaceflight.
Gökhan Erdem will become the first Turkish businessman to fly into space via Blue Origin's New Shepard.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster performs rocket-powered landings after flying above the Kármán Line.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster performs powered landings after flying above the Kármán Line.
Blue Origin aims to launch its robotic Blue Moon Mark I lander later this year on a New Glenn rocket.
Blue Origin’s Mark I lander will attempt to land somewhere on the Moon’s south pole.
NASA awarded the SCALPSS payload flight to Blue Origin under a $6.1 million Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract without holding a competition.
Blue Origin’s two robotic Mark I flights are self-funded technology demonstrations to test and refine landing and associated systems before the Mark 2 crewed lander.
Blue Origin will launch another Mark I lander next year incorporating lessons from the first Pathfinder flight.
Blue Origin’s Mark I lander has a payload capacity of 3,000 kilograms.
Blue Origin wants the robotic Mark I to demonstrate the ability to touchdown within 100 meters of a targeted spot on the Moon’s south pole as a precursor to crewed Blue Moon landings.
The lunar south pole region targeted by Blue Origin’s Mark I is known to have water ice deposits based on orbital remote sensing measurements.
Blue Origin revealed that the Artemis V Transporter vehicle will launch on a single New Glenn rocket and be fueled with leftover propellant from multiple New Glenn second stages to carry liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to lunar orbit.
Blue Origin plans for the Mark 2 lander to carry astronauts for NASA with Artemis V by the end of the decade.
NASA requires crewed landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX to touchdown within 100 meters of their targeted spots on the Moon’s south pole.