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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NASA will provide a Blue Origin New Glenn launch vehicle to carry the two ESCAPADE spacecraft to low Earth orbit in 2024.
The two ESCAPADE spacecraft are planned for launch in 2024 to low Earth orbit aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn launch vehicle provided by NASA.
Blue Origin unveiled Blue Ring, a spacecraft platform focused on providing in-space logistics and delivery.
Blue Origin unveiled Blue Ring, a spacecraft platform focused on providing in-space logistics and delivery.
Blue Origin is developing an orbital transfer vehicle capability to host payloads throughout cislunar space, deploy them, and relocate them.
Blue Origin announced on 2023-10-16 that it will develop an orbital maneuvering vehicle called Blue Ring.
Blue Origin unveiled the Blue Ring spacecraft platform on 2023-10-16.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn contracts include a launch agreement with NASA for the ESCAPADE Mars smallsat mission, which project officials have planned for August 2024.
Telesat previously had launch contracts for Lightspeed with Blue Origin and Relativity Space before contracting 14 Falcon 9 launches with SpaceX.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn program planned multiple launches in 2024 and intends to meet its contractual requirements in 2024.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper contracted Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance to launch its 3,236-satellite Kuiper constellation.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance in the United States and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Landspace, and iSpace in China have launched or are close to launching methane–liquid oxygen launchers.
NASA is working with four companies: Axiom Space, Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Voyager Space to develop commercial space stations.
The Federal Aviation Administration identified 21 corrective actions that Blue Origin is required to complete to prevent a recurrence of the mishap.
Blue Origin must demonstrate to the FAA that it has implemented the recommendations related to public safety before the agency will issue a modified launch license for New Shepard.
The FAA’s required corrective actions for Blue Origin include redesigns of engine and nozzle components to improve structural performance and organizational changes.
Bob Smith, chief executive of Blue Origin, indicated at a conference on 2023-06-06 that the company was completing requirements with the FAA and that New Shepard should be ready to fly within the next few weeks.
Blue Origin was nearing $10,000,000,000 in customer orders and had over 10,000 employees, according to a company spokesperson.
Blue Origin planned multiple New Glenn launches in 2024 despite New Glenn being years behind schedule.
Sierra Space is developing the LIFE inflatable habitat as one of the components of the Orbital Reef commercial space station being developed with Blue Origin and other companies.