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Blue Origin

US
commercialFounded 2000
www.blueorigin.com/
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On 2021-05-05 Blue Origin offered one seat on the first astronaut flight of New Shepard through an online auction.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMay 5, 2021Bid for the Very First Seat on New Shepard

Blue Origin submitted a bid of $5,990,000,000 for the HLS Option A competition.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative FinancialApr 30, 2021Dynetics HLS protest argues NASA should have revised competition after budget shortfall

Blue Origin’s bid for the Human Landing System competition was $5,990,000,000.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative FinancialApr 27, 2021Dynetics protests NASA HLS award

NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk indicated on 2021-04-27 that it was too soon to determine whether the GAO protests by Blue Origin and Dynetics would delay moving forward on Human Landing System work.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralApr 27, 2021Dynetics protests NASA HLS award

Brent Sherwood, senior vice president of advanced development programs at Blue Origin, stated in an affidavit included with the protest that Blue Origin received no feedback on its proposal until NASA notified the company on 2021-04-16 that it had not been selected.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralApr 26, 2021Blue Origin protests NASA Human Landing System award

Blue Origin filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on 2021-04-26 over NASA’s decision to select only SpaceX for the Human Landing System program.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipApr 26, 2021Blue Origin protests NASA Human Landing System award

Blue Origin’s National Team submitted a $5,990,000,000 bid for the Human Landing System award.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative FinancialApr 26, 2021Blue Origin protests NASA Human Landing System award

Blue Origin’s first New Glenn launch was pushed back to late 2022 after Blue Origin lost a significant Pentagon contract last year.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralApr 19, 2021Amazon contracts nine Atlas 5 missions for Kuiper broadband satellites

Blue Origin completed New Shepard Mission NS-15 on 2021-04-14.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipApr 15, 2021Blue Origin’s New Shepard Successfully Launches The NS-15 Mission

The New Shepard vehicle lifted off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 12:51 p.m. Eastern on 2021-04-14.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginTechnical ProductApr 14, 2021Blue Origin aces dress rehearsal for New Shepard crewed flights

Blue Origin completed a New Shepard test flight on 2021-04-14.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralApr 14, 2021Blue Origin aces dress rehearsal for New Shepard crewed flights

Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-15 flight is targeting liftoff on Wednesday, 2021-04-14 from Launch Site One in West Texas.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginTechnical ProductApr 12, 2021Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-15 Flight Set For April 14

On 2021-04-12, DARPA selected Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin to develop competing spacecraft concepts for a demonstration of nuclear thermal propulsion under the DRACO program.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipApr 12, 2021DARPA selects Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin to develop spacecraft for nuclear propulsion demo

DARPA awarded Blue Origin a $2,500,000 contract under the DRACO program.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipApr 12, 2021DARPA selects Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin to develop spacecraft for nuclear propulsion demo

Jeff Bezos expected Blue Origin to begin crewed New Shepard flights by the end of 2019 based on a February 2019 interview.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginTechnical ProductApr 12, 2021Blue Origin to perform dress rehearsal for crewed New Shepard flights

Blue Origin provided a live webcast of NS-15 starting at T-minus 60 minutes on BlueOrigin.com.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralApr 12, 2021Blue Origin Conducts Astronaut Rehearsal for Future Customer Flights

The HLS base period awards made in 2020-04-01 to teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX were set to end 2021-04-30.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipMar 28, 2021NASA still planning HLS awards by the end of April

Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew capsule will use reaction control thrusters to spin at a rate of 11 revolutions per minute to simulate lunar gravity.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative PlanMar 10, 2021Blue Origin to simulate lunar gravity on suborbital flights for NASA

Blue Origin had been planning the first reduced-gravity New Shepard flight in 2022.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 10, 2021Blue Origin to simulate lunar gravity on suborbital flights for NASA

Kencoa Aerospace made a rocket engine supply contract with Blue Origin under which Kencoa Aerospace LLC will produce parts for Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipMar 4, 2021S. Korea’s Kencoa Aerospace expands space business in U.S. with new capital
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