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Blue Origin is developing Blue Ring as an in-space platform for applications in Earth orbit and beyond, including a potential mission to the near Earth asteroid Apophis.
Blue Ring is part of Blue Origin’s initiative to build a road to space and enable millions of people to live and work in space for the benefit of Earth.
NASA selected Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to launch ESCAPADE and awarded Blue Origin a $20,000,000 task order through the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract in February 2023 for the mission.
Blue Origin has not announced a formal date for the first New Glenn launch beyond the company’s expectation that the flight will take place 2024 after several years of delays.
NASA evaluated the proposals and selected three while rejecting three additional proposals from Astrobotic, Blue Origin, and Leidos.
United Launch Alliance has been planning a transition from the Atlas 5 and Delta 4 Heavy to the next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket powered by Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines.
Blue Origin plans a first crewed New Shepard flight in more than 18 months as of 2024-04-04.
The Starlab effort is one of three commercial station initiatives being funded by NASA alongside initiatives led by Axiom Space and Blue Origin.
Blue Origin received a contract to demonstrate a heavy utility m-OLV system utilizing the Blue Ring platform.
The three DIU-funded projects were awarded to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Spacebilt.
Blue Origin received a contract to demonstrate a heavy utility on-orbit logistics vehicle system using its Blue Ring platform.
The Defense Innovation Unit is partnering with Blue Origin on a space mission called Dark-Sky 1 that will send a heavy multi-orbit space tug based on the Blue Ring platform to orbit.
The DarkSky-1 (DS-1) mission will demonstrate Blue Origin’s flight systems including space-based processing capabilities.
Jeff Bezos built the Corn Ranch launch site for Blue Origin in west Texas.
Blue Origin’s Corn Ranch spaceport is limited to vertical suborbital rocket launches.
Redwire received an award from Blue Origin in January to provide ROSA systems and other technologies for the Blue Ring transfer vehicle, with the award value undisclosed.
Sierra Space partnered with Blue Origin on the construction of a commercially developed space station.
Blue Origin and ISRO are interested in using LVM3 to launch crew capsules to service Blue Origin’s commercial space station, Orbital Reef.
Artemis 5 is scheduled to be the first Artemis mission to use Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander after SpaceX’s Starship lands on Artemis 3 and Artemis 4.
Blue Origin Texas, LLC of Van Horn, Texas was awarded a contract to provide flight and payload integration services.