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 has contingency plans to avoid delays in the lunar lander program if Blue Origin suffers additional setbacks.
Blue Origin expects to complete repairs in 2025 and resume flights.
Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander and SpaceX’s Starship have both experienced development delays.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static-fire test on the launch pad in May.
NASA’s Artemis III team plans a launch with Blue Origin’s New Glenn as the primary option for the lunar lander program.
SpaceX’s Starship HLS and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander are among the landers involved in future Artemis missions.
SpaceX competes with Blue Origin for a prominent role in NASA’s return-to-the-Moon effort.
A late-June 2026 ground test anomaly that caused an upper-stage explosion sidelined Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket and reduced near-term launch availability.
AST SpaceMobile originally partnered with Blue Origin to launch 45 BlueBird satellites on the New Glenn rocket.
SpaceX and Blue Origin are NASA’s two Human Landing System providers for the Artemis III mission.
In April 2026, AST SpaceMobile lost its BlueBird 7 satellite after a Blue Origin launch vehicle experienced an upper stage malfunction.
MoffettNathanson estimated that Blue Origin is at least 10 years behind SpaceX in heavy-lift reuse development.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn has followed Falcon 9 in booster recovery and reuse.
The Canada Rocket Company employs an engineering team with experience from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab.
Blue Origin plans to return its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket to flight by the end of this year after a pad-side anomaly during a hotfire test in late May at Launch Complex 36 in Florida.
Blue Origin has completed the first two phases of a five-phase New Glenn recovery plan and is working on design and repair work tied to a new operations concept.
Blue Origin has completed pad cleanup and debris removal at Launch Complex 36 in Florida and has begun reconstruction work.
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur and Blue Origin’s New Glenn are among the programs affected by the Inconel 718 shortage.
Amazon has secured up to 27 launches on Blue Origin’s New Glenn for its internet constellation.
Blue Origin is testing New Glenn as a super heavy lift launch vehicle.