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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As Director of Commercial Solutions, Paige Webster designed the ground station solution for Blue Origin’s DarkSky-1 mission.
Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard suborbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site and is constructing a launch pad for its orbital New Glenn vehicle at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company founded by Jeff Bezos with headquarters in Kent, Washington.
Blue Origin will launch the uncrewed NS-27 mission on Wednesday, 2024-10-23 at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/Corn Ranch.
Blue Origin planned the NS-27 launch attempt for 2024-10-07 but scrubbed the launch following an extended hold to troubleshoot a vehicle issue.
Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas and SpaceX’s Starbase site are examples of spaceports owned and operated by a single company for specific vehicles such as New Shepard and Starship/Super Heavy.
Payloads on NS-27 include new navigation systems developed for New Shepard and New Glenn, two different LIDAR sensors for the Lunar Permanence program, and ultra-wideband proximity operations sensors flown as part of a NASA TechFlights grant with Blue Origin’s Space Systems Development group.
Artemis V’s architecture is planned to be reinforced via Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander instead of Starship.
Blue Origin set alternative tentative launch dates for NS-27 including Wednesday, 2024-10-09; Thursday, 2024-10-10; Friday, 2024-10-11 at 9:00 AM EDT (13:00 UTC); and Sunday, 2024-10-13 with various PDT launch windows.
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company founded by Jeff Bezos with headquarters in Kent, Washington.
Blue Origin set a tentative new launch date for New Shepard-27 on Friday, 2024-10-11, at 9:00 AM EDT (13:00 UTC) from Launch Site One in West Texas.
Blue Origin scheduled an attempted NS-27 uncrewed verification flight for Wednesday, 2024-10-09, with a launch window of 6:00 AM to 1:30 PM PDT from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/Corn Ranch.
Blue Origin scheduled an attempted NS-27 uncrewed verification flight for Thursday, 2024-10-10, with a launch window of 6:00 AM to 1:30 PM PDT from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/Corn Ranch.
Blue Origin planned an NS-27 uncrewed verification flight for Wednesday, 2024-10-09, with a launch window of 6:00 AM to 1:30 PM PDT.
The NS-27 launch will take place at Blue Origin’s West Texas Suborbital Launch Site (Corn Ranch) in Van Horn, Texas.
Blue Origin scrubbed the NS-27 launch on Monday, 2024-10-07 due to a technical issue that would have taken the vehicle outside the available launch window.
The NS-27 mission was planned to launch from Blue Origin’s West Texas Suborbital Launch Site, also known as Corn Ranch in Van Horn, Texas.
Blue Origin stated that the NS-27 launch window would open at 11:00 AM CDT / 16:00 UTC for one broadcast, and another published launch window time was 8:00 AM CDT / 13:00 UTC.
Lars Hoffman, vice president of government sales at Blue Origin, described the relationship with the FAA as productive and constructive.
Human Landing System landers being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin will launch using commercial licenses.