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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Sierra Space is co-developing the Orbital Reef space platform with Blue Origin and is maturing its LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible Environment) product line as part of that effort.
Blue Origin selected ATLAS Space Operations to provide ground segment support for the Blue Ring mission DarkSky-1.
Blue Origin and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) announced the DarkSky-1 mission to demonstrate flight systems including space-based processing capabilities, telemetry, tracking and command hardware, and ground-based radiometric tracking.
Blue Origin is developing Blue Ring as an in-space platform for applications in Earth orbit and beyond, including a potential mission to the near Earth asteroid Apophis.
NASA selected Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to launch ESCAPADE and awarded Blue Origin a $20,000,000 task order through the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract in February 2023 for the mission.
Blue Origin has not announced a formal date for the first New Glenn launch beyond the company’s expectation that the flight will take place 2024 after several years of delays.
NASA evaluated the proposals and selected three while rejecting three additional proposals from Astrobotic, Blue Origin, and Leidos.
United Launch Alliance has been planning a transition from the Atlas 5 and Delta 4 Heavy to the next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket powered by Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines.
Blue Origin plans a first crewed New Shepard flight in more than 18 months as of 2024-04-04.
The Starlab effort is one of three commercial station initiatives being funded by NASA alongside initiatives led by Axiom Space and Blue Origin.
Blue Origin received a contract to demonstrate a heavy utility m-OLV system utilizing the Blue Ring platform.
The Defense Innovation Unit is partnering with Blue Origin on a space mission called Dark-Sky 1 that will send a heavy multi-orbit space tug based on the Blue Ring platform to orbit.
The three DIU-funded projects were awarded to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Spacebilt.
The DarkSky-1 (DS-1) mission will demonstrate Blue Origin’s flight systems including space-based processing capabilities.
Blue Origin received a contract to demonstrate a heavy utility on-orbit logistics vehicle system using its Blue Ring platform.
Jeff Bezos built the Corn Ranch launch site for Blue Origin in west Texas.
Blue Origin’s Corn Ranch spaceport is limited to vertical suborbital rocket launches.
Redwire received an award from Blue Origin in January to provide ROSA systems and other technologies for the Blue Ring transfer vehicle, with the award value undisclosed.
Sierra Space partnered with Blue Origin on the construction of a commercially developed space station.
Blue Origin Texas, LLC of Van Horn, Texas was awarded a contract to provide flight and payload integration services.