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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NASA selected the Blue Origin National Team to begin development of the Artemis Human Landing System on 2020-04-30.
The Blue Origin-led team received a $579,000,000 Human Landing System award.
Except for SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are offering newly designed rockets that RAND projects will be ready by 2021.
Blue Origin is hiring about 20 people a week and has more than 500 job openings across its facilities.
The postcards created by students will be flown to space on an upcoming flight of Blue Origin’s fully reusable New Shepard rocket.
Club for the Future was founded in 2019 by Blue Origin.
Solstar tested the Schmitt Space Communicator in April and July 2018 on board Blue Origin’s New Shepard and transmitted the first tweets from space.
Companies including Blue Origin advocate using cryogenic propellants such as liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen because those propellants could eventually be produced from lunar water ice if mining at the poles proves feasible.
Blue Origin plans to continue conducting test flights of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle that last flew in December 2019.
Blue Origin plans to install tooling in the Huntsville factory in summer 2020 and start building a test stand for BE-4 and BE-3U engines.
The Huntsville test stand will allow Blue Origin to test production engines and ship them to United Launch Alliance in Decatur and to Florida for New Glenn.
Testing of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines intended for delivery to United Launch Alliance later in 2020 is proceeding as planned.
Blue Origin opened a 350,000-square-foot factory in Huntsville, Alabama in February 2020 to produce BE-4 and BE-3U engines for the New Glenn rocket.
Blue Origin expects to qualify the BE-4 engine in 2020 and to ship some engines to United Launch Alliance for integration into Vulcan in 2020.
SpaceX and Blue Origin combined collected $1,900,000,000 in 2019.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman are competing with SpaceX for Launch Service Procurement five-year contracts to be awarded in mid-2020 to two companies.
The 2021 budget includes $560,000,000 to continue funding public-private Launch Service Agreement partnerships signed in 2018 with United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman.
United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are competing to be two providers that will receive five-year U.S. National Security Space Launch contracts beginning in 2022.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are pitching newly designed launch vehicles projected to fly for the first time in 2021 as part of the U.S. NSSL competition.
Blue Origin conducted uncrewed New Shepard test flights in 2019 and planned additional uncrewed tests before starting crewed commercial flights.