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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Sierra Space is partnering with Blue Origin and other companies to develop the Orbital Reef commercial space station.
Blue Origin successfully completed the NS-21 New Shepard flight on Saturday, 2022-06-04.
Bob Smith, chief executive of Blue Origin, expected in February 2022 that the company would easily double the 14 people it took to space in 2021.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle performed its fifth crewed suborbital flight on 2022-06-04.
New Shepard lifted off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 9:25 a.m. Eastern on 2022-06-04.
Blue Origin completed its fifth human spaceflight and the 21st flight for the New Shepard program on 2022-06-04.
Blue Origin set NS-21 to lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Saturday, 2022-06-04.
Bob Smith declined to provide a projection for how many New Shepard flights, including crewed and payload-only missions, Blue Origin planned to launch in 2022.
Blue Origin stated in an 2022-04-25 tweet that MoonDAO has purchased seats on an upcoming New Shepard flight.
Orbital Reef is a mixed-use business park in low Earth orbit being developed by Sierra Space and Blue Origin that is expected to be operational by 2027.
Boeing is participating in the Orbital Reef commercial space station project being developed with Blue Origin and Sierra Space and is offering Starliner for crew transportation to that station.
Blue Origin delayed the NS-21 launch originally scheduled for Friday, 2022-05-20.
Blue Origin planned to lift NS-21 from Launch Site One in West Texas.
Blue Origin scheduled NS-21 to lift off from Launch Site One on Friday, 2022-05-20 with a launch window opening at 8:30 a.m. CDT / 13:30 UTC.
Hamish Harding is a crew member on Blue Origin’s NS-21 mission and serves as Chairman of Action Aviation.
The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project started over a year ago when DARPA selected a preliminary design for a rocket engine reactor developed by General Atomics and chose two conceptual spacecraft designs by Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper announced an agreement to buy up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance.
Amazon selected Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance on 2022-04-05 to launch up to 3,236 satellites for Project Kuiper.
Northrop Grumman was considering both partnering again with Blue Origin and leading a separate team for the new Sustaining Lunar Development competition.
In the original Human Landing System competition that SpaceX won, Lockheed Martin was part of the National Team led by Blue Origin that also included Northrop Grumman and Draper.