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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Amazon has spent about $1,700,000,000 to date on the three Project Kuiper launch contracts, including $585,000,000 paid directly to Blue Origin.
The 77-page complaint devotes a section to the history of the rivalry between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and between Blue Origin and SpaceX, including Blue Origin’s protest of a NASA lunar lander contract won by SpaceX in 2021.
Telesat has previously announced plans to use rockets still under development by Blue Origin and Relativity Space for Lightspeed launches.
Boeing is a partner on the Orbital Reef station concept led by Blue Origin and Sierra Space.
Brett Alexander most recently served as Blue Origin’s Vice President of Government Sales.
NASA issued funded Space Act Agreements in late 2021 to teams led by Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Voyager Space to support initial design work on commercial station concepts.
Blue Origin's New Shepard appears to be carefully designed and well tested.
Blue Origin of Kent, Washington received $34,700,000 from NASA for In-Situ Resource Utilization-based power on the Moon that could extract elements from lunar regolith to produce solar cells and wire.
The Space Force’s revised Phase 3 solicitation creates an opportunity for a new entrant such as Blue Origin, which is developing a heavy rocket.
Lockheed Martin is developing a cislunar transporter vehicle to refuel Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander.
NASA awarded Blue Origin a $35,000,000 Tipping Point partnership on 2023-07-25 to continue advancing the Blue Alchemist technology.
Blue Origin received a $34,700,000 Tipping Point award to demonstrate the ability to produce solar cells using lunar materials as part of its Blue Alchemist project.
Blue Origin plans to develop a reusable second stage for New Glenn.
Blue Origin is developing the New Glenn heavy launch vehicle.
Sierra Space has ongoing work with Blue Origin on the Orbital Reef commercial space station, which received NASA funding in late 2021 for initial development.
Blue Origin received a CCSC-2 agreement for a proposed interrelated LEO space transportation capability utilizing its reusable Space Vehicle (SV), New Glenn launch vehicle, and other supporting elements.
The Kennedy Space Center satellite processing facility will perform final preparations of Project Kuiper satellites shipped in from out of state for launch aboard Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance rockets.
Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Arianespace are expected to perform up to 92 Project Kuiper launches under a launch deal announced in early 2022.
A new entrant such as Blue Origin could be awarded a Lane 2 contract on the assumption that its New Glenn rocket will be operational and certified by October 2026, with fiscal year 2027 missions assigned to other providers until New Glenn is certified.
The Senate CJS bill fully funds Orion, the Space Launch System, and ground systems and provides funding to continue Artemis Campaign Development, including Human Landing System awards to SpaceX and Blue Origin.