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 received a contract to demonstrate a heavy utility on-orbit logistics vehicle system using its Blue Ring platform.
Blue Origin’s Honeybee Robotics and Astrobotic each developed one of the three LVSAT designs funded by NASA in 2022.
Interlune, a startup led by former Blue Origin president Rob Meyerson, is pursuing helium-3 extraction from the Moon.
NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers developed by Blue Origin and SpaceX to deliver a pressurized rover and a surface habitat to the lunar surface in the early 2030s.
Blue Origin’s Blue Moon will deliver a lunar surface habitat no sooner than fiscal year 2033.
The NS-27 mission on 2024-10-23 was the first flight of a new crew capsule and booster that Blue Origin plans to use for future crew flights to provide expanded flight capacity to better meet growing customer demand.
The New Shepard vehicle lifted off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 10:30 a.m. Eastern on 2024-11-22.
NASA expects Blue Origin to deliver a lunar surface habitat no earlier than fiscal year 2033.
NASA requested in 2023 that SpaceX and Blue Origin develop cargo versions of their crewed human landing systems that are being developed for Artemis III, Artemis IV, and Artemis V.
NASA intends to award Blue Origin and SpaceX additional work under their existing contracts to develop landers that will deliver large pieces of equipment and infrastructure to the lunar surface.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn is designed for 25 reuses and multiple New Glenn vehicles are being built.
AST SpaceMobile booked rockets from Blue Origin and other launch providers to deploy enough satellites between 2025 and 2026 to provide full text, voice, and 0.005 kg data services to standard mobile phones across the United States and other key markets.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn has a fairing large enough to deploy eight Block 2 BlueBird satellites at a time to low Earth orbit.
All New Glenn launches for the AST SpaceMobile Block 2 BlueBird satellites will occur from Blue Origin’s Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station over a multi-year period.
The uncrewed NS-27 mission lifted off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 11:26 a.m. Eastern on 2025-10-23.
Blue Origin positioned RSS Kármán Line as providing expanded flight capacity to better meet growing customer demand.
Blue Origin reported that the NS-27 booster reached a peak altitude of 102 km above mean sea level while the NS-27 capsule flew to an apogee of 102 km.
Blue Origin stated on 2025-10-04 that the new vehicle features technology upgrades to improve performance and reusability, an updated livery, and accommodations for payloads on the booster.
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company founded by Jeff Bezos with headquarters in Kent, Washington.
Blue Origin scheduled an uncrewed NS-27 launch window to open at 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC) from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site / Corn Ranch on Wednesday, 2024-10-23.