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 is rebuilding the pad at LC-36.
Blue Origin will move the booster to its manufacturing facility at Rocket Park while it rebuilds the pad at LC-36.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static-fire test on 28 May, destroying its only active launch pad.
Airborne Systems has supplied or supported parachute and recovery systems for Boeing Starliner, NASA’s Orion, SpaceX Dragon, and Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsules.
Blue Origin’s NG-4 exploded during a static fire test at Space Launch Complex 36 on May 28.
Blue Origin’s lunar lander services award under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services framework includes an option period valued at $280.4 million.
NASA separately awarded Blue Origin $188 million for lunar lander services under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services framework.
Blue Origin plans to fly again before the end of 2026.
Blue Origin will continue 7x2 rate manufacturing at pace as planned and store the stages for later use.
Moon Base I is targeted for launch no earlier than fall 2026 and will use Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance lander to deliver NASA scientific instruments to the Shackleton Connecting Ridge.
Blue Origin’s booster Never Tell Me The Odds and three GS-2 vehicles in the integration facility appear to be in good condition.
Blue Origin will not move directly to a 9x4 configuration.
Orbital Reef is a partnership between Blue Origin and Sierra Space.
Orbital Reef is a joint venture between Blue Origin and Sierra Space.
Blue Origin is planning to rebuild LC-36 to a vertical-operations configuration that does not require a transporter-erector.
Blue Origin is pursuing an alternative vertical operations concept instead of building a new transporter-erector.
Blue Origin's pad loss could delay Moon Base 1 by several months and affect the VIPER launch, the two LTV rovers, and the Artemis 3 and Artemis 4 schedules.
Blue Origin and NASA built a full-size mock-up of the Blue Moon Mark 2 crew cabin for ground-based astronaut testing and feedback.
Blue Origin's static-fire test at Launch Complex 36 ended in a major explosion that destroyed the rocket, its transporter-erector, and a lightning tower.
NASA has a potential contract with Blue Origin to deliver the 450-kilogram VIPER rover to the Moon’s south pole in late 2027.