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 plans for New Glenn to launch a robotic Mark I Moon lander in 2026 or 2027 as a key technology demonstrator for Blue Moon.
On January 13, Blue Origin made its first attempt to launch New Glenn.
Blue Origin must conduct a mishap investigation before proceeding with the next New Glenn launch.
In 2023, NASA selected the Blue Origin–led Blue Moon spacecraft to land astronauts on the Moon for Artemis V by the end of the decade.
Blue Origin launched a New Glenn rocket on January 16, 2026 that achieved orbit on its first attempt and demonstrated in-space engine relight capability.
Blue Origin lost the booster during reentry after the inaugural flight of New Glenn.
Blue Origin scrubbed the launch of New Glenn after troubleshooting a vehicle subsystem issue.
On January 16, Blue Origin successfully launched New Glenn for the first time.
Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 2 Lunar lander has a wet mass in the 45-ton range and can carry four astronauts to the lunar surface.
Blue Moon's success depends on Blue Origin developing a solar-powered liquid hydrogen refrigeration scheme to maintain cryogenic propellants.
Both Blue Origin and SpaceX conducted studies for NASA on utilizing their lunar landers for Mars Sample Return.
Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin to move heavy industry into orbit to prevent environmental collapse.
Blue Origin will attempt the first launch of its New Glenn rocket on a Friday in early 2025.
Blue Origin completed a static-fire test of its New Glenn rocket on 2024-12-27.
Blue Origin had planned to carry out the first New Glenn launch in 2024.
NASA awarded a CLPS task order to Blue Origin in August to fly a camera payload on Blue Origin’s Blue Moon 2024-03-01 lander that is flying a commercial demonstration mission in 2025.
Blue Origin examined using its Blue Ring transfer vehicle for delivering large payloads to Mars.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket scheduled for the inaugural flight is carrying a technology demonstration payload and had not launched as of the 2024-12-09 statement from the company.
Blue Origin performed tanking tests of New Glenn at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 36 as of 2024-12-08.
Blue Origin plans to install Blue Ring Pathfinder on New Glenn after a static-fire test of the vehicle’s first stage, which had not yet occurred as of 2024-12-09.