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 has developed launch vehicles and has worked on lunar landers as part of building space infrastructure to enable commercial activity in space.
Blue Origin posted a job opening on 2020-09-18 for an "Orbital Habitat Formulation Lead" at its headquarters in Kent, Washington.
NASA planned to select in early 2021 one or more of the three companies working on the Human Landing System—Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX—to proceed into full-scale lander development.
Blue Origin completed the New Shepard NS-13 mission on 2020-10-13.
Blue Origin delivered a full-sized mockup of its lander to NASA’s Johnson Space Center for testing.
Blue Origin completed similar systems reviews of its lunar lander under a $579,000,000 HLS award and agreed with NASA on dozens of design and construction standards.
The Blue Origin-led team had an aggregate total of 62 design and construction standards across the three partners involved in the integrated lander.
The Human Landing System National Team, led by Blue Origin, has completed its System Requirements Review.
Brent Sherwood, vice president of Advanced Development Programs at Blue Origin, stated that achieving major milestones is the surest way to measure progress toward the first lunar landing.
Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX won Human Landing System awards from NASA in April to develop lunar landers for the Artemis missions.
The Blue Origin-led team won a Human Landing System award from NASA in April valued at $579,000,000.
A Blue Origin-led national team that includes Draper, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman received a $579,000,000 NASA contract to design vehicles to land humans on the moon.
Blue Origin’s National Team installed a full-sized engineering mockup of its lunar lander in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center on 2020-08-20.
The Blue Origin-led HLS National Team delivered a full-scale engineering mockup of a crew lander vehicle to NASA Johnson Space Center’s Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Building 9) on 2020-08-20.
The full-sized, low-fidelity mockup includes a descent element developed by Blue Origin and an ascent element built by Lockheed Martin.
Draper provides descent guidance and avionics to the Blue Origin-led HLS National Team.
Blue Origin is developing storage technologies for the cryogenic propellants used by its BE-7 engine.
The Blue Origin-led team expects its lander concept to be ready in 2024 to meet NASA’s goal of returning people to the moon.
Blue Origin has been performing tests of its BE-7 engine at Marshall Space Flight Center.
The Blue Origin-led team includes Northrop Grumman developing the transfer element that moves the lander in lunar orbit and Draper providing the guidance and avionics.