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 delayed the NS-23 mission from the end of August because of bad weather at the launch site.
Other NS-23 payloads included thousands of postcards from students provided by Club for the Future, a nonprofit associated with Blue Origin.
The NS-23 mission lifted off at 10:27 a.m. Eastern from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas.
Weather prevented the Blue Origin NS-23 launch that was scheduled for 2022-08-31 from Launch Site One in West Texas.
Honeybee Robotics of Altadena, California was acquired by Blue Origin earlier in 2022.
Dream Chaser and LIFE™ are central components to Orbital Reef, a mixed-use business park in LEO being developed by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin.
Blue Origin’s efforts include flying astronauts on New Shepard, producing reusable liquid rocket engines, developing the New Glenn orbital launch vehicle, building next-generation Orbital Reef space habitats, and returning to the surface of the Moon.
The Orbital Reef team led by Sierra Space and Blue Origin completed a System Definition Review with NASA.
Blue Origin acquired the Stena Freighter roll-on, roll-off cargo ship in 2018.
On 2022-08-15 Blue Origin decided to transition away from Jacklyn as a landing solution.
Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on the NS-22 mission on 2022-08-04 at 9:56 a.m. Eastern from Launch Site One in West Texas.
Blue Origin successfully completed its sixth human spaceflight and the 22nd flight of the New Shepard program on 2022-08-04.
Blue Origin will lift off its NS-22 mission from Launch Site One on Thursday, 2022-08-04.
Orbital Reef is a mixed-use business park in low Earth orbit being developed by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin and is expected to be operational by 2027.
Sierra Space and Blue Origin are principal partners developing Orbital Reef, a mixed-use business park in low Earth orbit.
General John Hyten will provide strategic counsel to Blue Origin senior leadership to help guide the company as it builds a road to space.
Blue Origin is expected to offer the New Glenn rocket when national security launch contracts are recompeted in 2024.
Blue Origin lost national security launch awards in 2020 to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
On 2022-06-15 John Hyten will join Blue Origin as executive director of the company's Club for the Future foundation and as a strategic advisor.
General John Hyten will provide strategic counsel to Blue Origin senior leadership to help guide the company as it builds a road to space.