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 commercially developed, owned, and operated space station planned to be built in low Earth orbit by investor partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin.
Blue Origin will not launch its New Glenn vehicle before the end of 2022.
In the original HLS Option A competition, a team led by Blue Origin bid $6,000,000,000 while Dynetics submitted a proposal that bid more than $6,000,000,000.
Blue Origin’s NS-20 liftoff was targeted for 8:30 a.m. CDT / 13:30 UTC from Launch Site One in West Texas.
Blue Origin shifted the NS-20 flight to Tuesday, 2022-03-29.
Gary Lai received the Blue Origin Founder’s Award in 2019.
Telesat announced separate 2019 contracts with Blue Origin and Relativity Space for an unspecified number of New Glenn and Terran 1 launches for Lightspeed.
A consortium led by Blue Origin announced the Orbital Reef commercial space station.
United Launch Alliance will retire the Atlas 5 by 2025 and plans to start transitioning to the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, which will use the Blue Origin BE-4 engine made in the United States.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Airbus OneWeb Satellites, and Made In Space have established or expanded employment and facilities in Florida in recent years.
Huntsville is home to a Blue Origin engine production facility.
Blue Origin donated the $28,000,000 winning bid from the first-crew auction to charities.
A winning bid of $28,000,000 for a seat on Blue Origin’s first crewed New Shepard flight was placed by Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Lin.
Blue Origin is developing and launching rockets in Texas and is based in Washington state.
Part of the work for the three CLD award teams led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman will be to improve the fidelity of their estimated prices for commercial station services.
NASA selected proposals led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman on 2021-12-02 for funded Space Act Agreements under the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations (CLD) program.
NASA elected to award Space Act Agreements to Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman to provide a balanced risk spread for achieving at least one commercial LEO destination during the course of the project.
Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman will receive more than $400,000,000 combined through 2025 to mature designs of commercial space stations under the CLD program.
Blue Origin argued that the NPRM would create duplicative and conflicting incident investigation authorities between the FAA and NTSB and could lead to unlimited and non-statutory NTSB authority to initiate investigations even without vehicle damage or serious injury.
United Launch Alliance projected receiving Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines in mid-2022 and flying the Vulcan Centaur by the end of 2022.