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Blue Origin

US
commercialFounded 2000
www.blueorigin.com/
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Blue Origin’s First Human Flight was scheduled to take place on 2021-07-20.

Mentioned as: blue originTechnical ProductJul 14, 2021Blue Origin's foundation, Club for the Future, selects 19 space-based charities to each receive a $1 million grant

The $1,000,000 grants from Club for the Future are funded by a $28,000,000 donation raised by the auction for the first paid seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipJul 14, 2021Blue Origin's foundation, Club for the Future, selects 19 space-based charities to each receive a $1 million grant

Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies, working with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, Blue Origin, General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy, General Electric Research, Framatome, and Materion, received one of the NASA nuclear thermal propulsion concept study contracts.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipJul 13, 2021NASA issues contracts for nuclear thermal propulsion studies

Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin won DARPA contracts to develop spacecraft using nuclear thermal propulsion systems for the DRACO program.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginTechnical ProductJul 13, 2021NASA issues contracts for nuclear thermal propulsion studies

Blue Origin included Wally Funk as a passenger on its 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralJul 11, 2021Branson flies to edge of space on SpaceShipTwo

The fourth seat on Blue Origin’s 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight was sold at auction for $28,000,000.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative FinancialJul 11, 2021Branson flies to edge of space on SpaceShipTwo

Blue Origin conducted 15 uncrewed tests of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle before announcing plans on 2021-05-05 to fly people on New Shepard on 2021-07-20.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipJul 11, 2021Branson flies to edge of space on SpaceShipTwo

Starfish Space, founded in late 2019 by two former Blue Origin and NASA engineers, plans an all-electric tug called Otter as early as 2023.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative PlanJul 6, 2021Space Tugs as a Service: In-orbit service providers are bracing for consolidation

Blue Origin sold the fourth seat on the 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight at auction on 2021-06-12 for $28,000,000 to an unidentified individual.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative FinancialJul 1, 2021Blue Origin to fly Mercury 13 woman on first crewed New Shepard flight

The fourth seat on Blue Origin’s 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight will be occupied by the winner of a 2021-06-12 auction who bid $28,000,000 for the seat.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative FinancialJul 1, 2021Branson to be on next SpaceShipTwo flight July 11

Blue Origin plans its first New Shepard suborbital flight with people on board for 2021-07-20 from its West Texas test site.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipJul 1, 2021Branson to be on next SpaceShipTwo flight July 11

Blue Origin developed the BE-4 staged combustion engine.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginTechnical ProductJun 21, 2021Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA): Successful Tests Of Their Full-Scale, Staged-Combustion Engine

$400,000,000 of the $850,000,000 provided in the final fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill was needed to support work on the three initial base period Human Landing System awards to Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipJun 15, 2021Nelson asks Senate appropriators for more HLS funding

Blue Origin’s Human Landing System bid was $5,990,000,000 as stated in its protest filed with the Government Accountability Office.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginTechnical ProductJun 15, 2021Nelson asks Senate appropriators for more HLS funding

The winning bidder of Blue Origin’s New Shepard first-seat auction will fly to space on New Shepard’s first human flight on 2021-07-20.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative PlanJun 12, 2021The very first seat on New Shepard sells for $28 million

The $28,000,000 winning bid for the New Shepard first seat will be donated to Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative PlanJun 12, 2021The very first seat on New Shepard sells for $28 million

On 2021-06-12 Blue Origin concluded an online auction for the very first seat on New Shepard with a winning bid of $28,000,000.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipJun 12, 2021The very first seat on New Shepard sells for $28 million

A seat on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle sold for $28,000,000 at an auction on 2021-06-12.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative FinancialJun 12, 2021Blue Origin auctions New Shepard seat for $28 million

Blue Origin opened a bidding process on 2021-05-05 to sell a seat on the New Shepard flight scheduled for 2021-07-20 from the company’s West Texas test site.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipJun 12, 2021Blue Origin auctions New Shepard seat for $28 million

United Launch Alliance bid its new Vulcan rocket, which uses the domestically produced BE-4 engine made by Blue Origin, for the DoD launch contract.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralJun 8, 2021GAO’s annual review of DoD programs raises concerns on space launch, missile warning satellites
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