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 had a New Glenn launch anomaly.
NASA awarded Blue Origin contracts worth up to $280.4 million to deliver two Blue Moon Mark 1 landers carrying the Lunar Terrain Vehicles under the CLPS program.
Blue Origin planned an early June 2026 launch of 48 Amazon Leo broadband satellites on New Glenn.
NASA awarded Blue Origin a $6.1 million CLPS contract for the SCALPSS flight on Endurance without a competition.
Blue Origin said it will fly again before the end of 2026.
Blue Origin’s first Blue Moon Mark 1 lander is named Endurance.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket suffered a massive explosion during a test fire on its pad two days after the NASA contract awards.
NASA selected Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 to deliver both rovers on separate missions under a contract worth up to $468.4 million if all options are exercised.
NASA renamed Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 lander Moon Base 1 and scheduled it to fly in fall 2026 with a NASA payload under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
NASA’s 2021 Artemis lander selection process chose SpaceX’s Starship as the primary provider over Blue Origin’s simpler launch architecture proposal.
Blue Origin has no other operational pad for New Glenn.
NASA planned to award Blue Origin a $190 million CLPS contract for delivering VIPER on a second Blue Moon Mark 1 lander if the required milestones were met.
NASA’s Office of Inspector General released a report in March highlighting shortcomings and risks in Blue Origin’s crewed Blue Moon Mark 2 lander program.
Blue Origin was preparing a New Glenn return-to-flight mission after an April upper stage malfunction.
Blue Origin’s crewed Blue Moon Mark 2 lander is intended to land NASA astronauts on the Moon.
Blue Origin expects Project Horizon to generate 500 aerospace jobs with average salaries above $98,000 per year.
Blue Origin is expanding its Rocket Park campus at Cape Canaveral with a $600 million project called Project Horizon.
Blue Origin says the new upper stage manufacturing facility is designed to increase the volume and mass it can deliver to orbit from Florida.
The Blue Origin Project Horizon jobs are expected to pay average salaries of more than $98,000 a year.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper bought roughly 83 upcoming heavy-lift rocket launches from United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, and Blue Origin to build its global internet constellation.