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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Orbital Reef is a commercial space station project with lead partners Blue Origin and Sierra Space that won NASA funding in December 2021 for initial design studies.
Caleb Henry, a Senior Analyst at Quilty Analytics, moderated a panel featuring launch contract winners Arianespace CEO Stephane Israel, Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith, and ULA CEO Tory Bruno.
The U.S. government has invested more than $1,000,000,000 in United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket and its Blue Origin–supplied BE-4 engines.
Amazon purchased up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance for Project Kuiper.
Orbital Reef is a commercial space station being developed by a consortium led by Blue Origin and Sierra Space.
The Orbital Reef team led by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin completed its Systems Requirements Review in three months.
Blue Origin is selling 12 New Glenn launches to Amazon with an option for 15 additional New Glenn launches.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn has been selected for 12 launches to deploy Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation with options for as many as 15 additional launches.
Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance to deploy most of its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper, in contracts worth several billion dollars.
Amazon selected Blue Origin’s New Glenn for 12 launches with options for up to 15 additional launches to deploy Project Kuiper on 2022-04-05.
Orbital Reef was unveiled in October 2021 by Blue Origin and Sierra Space as part of a partnership that includes Boeing and Redwire Space.
Blue Origin will develop Orbital Reef’s core modules and provide launch services on its New Glenn rocket.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space completed a system requirements review for Orbital Reef on 2022-04-05.
Blue Origin and Relativity Space plan to make their debut launches sometime 2022.
Telesat announced separate 2019 contracts with Blue Origin and Relativity Space for an unspecified number of New Glenn and Terran 1 launches for Lightspeed.
Blue Origin is planning more crewed and payload flights throughout 2022 and beyond.
Blue Origin announced on 2022-03-21 that Gary Lai would replace Pete Davidson on the NS-20 flight.
Blue Origin is planning additional crewed and payload flights throughout 2022 and beyond.
Blue Origin completed its fourth human spaceflight and 20th overall flight of New Shepard on 2022-03-31.
Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on 2022-03-31 on its first flight of the year.