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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At Blue Origin, Jessica Curry managed the team responsible for awarding subcontracts to support NASA’s Sustaining Lunar Development contract.
Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and other suppliers are working to increase BE-4 production to meet a target rate of 25 engines a year by mid-2025 under the initiative referred to as "25 in ’25."
Blue Origin's launch experience is limited to its New Shepard suborbital flights, which have been on hiatus since September 2022.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket and its engines are currently more than three years behind schedule and have not been flight tested.
Blue Origin began flying paying customers on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle in 2021.
Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle has been grounded since a mishap in September 2022.
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith stated that the company is preparing to resume flights within the next few weeks.
The companies selected for CCSC-2 are Blue Origin of Kent, Washington; Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Dulles, Virginia; Sierra Space Corporation of Broomfield, Colorado; Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California; Special Aerospace Services of Boulder, Colorado; ThinkOrbital Inc. of Lafayette, Colorado; and Vast Space LLC of Long Beach, California.
Blue Origin of Kent, Washington is collaborating with NASA to develop an integrated commercial space transportation capability to ensure safe, affordable, and high-frequency U.S. access to orbit for crew and other missions.
Blue Origin is collaborating with NASA to develop an integrated commercial space transportation capability to ensure safe, affordable, and high-frequency U.S. access to orbit for crew and other missions.
CLD companies including Northrop Grumman, Voyager, Blue Origin, Sierra Space, and Axiom are depending on NASA seed funding to develop and build orbital facilities.
NASA selected teams led by Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Voyager Space in late 2021 for funded Space Act Agreements to assist in initial design work on commercial stations.
Blue Origin relies on investment from founder Jeff Bezos, who several years ago invested $1,000,000,000 per year into the company.
Blue Origin received a $3,400,000,000 NASA award on 2023-05-19 to develop a second lunar lander for the Artemis lunar exploration campaign.
Astrobotic is part of the Blue Origin National Team that won a contract for NASA’s Artemis program to develop and provide human and large cargo lunar landing services.
Astrobotic announced the Blue Origin National Team contract win on 2023-05-23 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Boeing is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
Blue Origin will design, develop, test, and verify its Blue Moon lander to meet NASA’s human landing system requirements for recurring astronaut expeditions to the lunar surface, including docking with Gateway in lunar orbit.
Honeybee Robotics is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
Astrobotic is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.