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Blue Origin’s Launch Complex 36 will host New Glenn launches starting no earlier than late 2022.
Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, and Relativity are either building new launch facilities or have announced plans to launch from Cape Canaveral.
Blue Origin intends to deliver flight-qualified BE-4 engines to United Launch Alliance on time for ULA’s planned maiden launch of the Vulcan rocket late 2021.
Blue Origin is completing new facilities at Launch Complex 36, with major construction wrapping up and system activation and checkouts starting.
Blue Origin has invested more than $2,500,000,000 in facilities and infrastructure at all sites.
Blue Origin has invested $1,000,000,000 in the rebuild of historic Launch Complex 36, which is nearing completion.
Blue Origin estimated that not winning the five-year NSSL Phase 2 procurement contract cost the company up to $3,000,000,000 in revenue.
Blue Origin’s overall investment in facilities for New Glenn totals $2.5 billion, including the New Glenn factory and a BE-4 engine factory in Huntsville, Alabama.
The Launch Complex 36 pad cost Blue Origin $1,000,000,000.
Blue Origin originally targeted New Glenn’s inaugural launch for 2020 and had delayed it to late 2021 before setting the new 2022 target.
Blue Origin won a $500,000,000 Launch Service Agreement with the Air Force in October 2018 that was terminated in December 2020 after Blue Origin received $255,500,000.
Blue Origin completed a qualification version of a seven-meter payload fairing for New Glenn and a payload adapter that will be tested at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Ohio.
Blue Origin was not selected for the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 Launch Services Procurement and lost to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
The latest task order awarded to Millennium Engineering and Integration supports certification of Vulcan including the new BE-4 engine provided by Blue Origin.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan are also aiming for debut launches in 2021 and are powered by BE-4 methalox engines.
Telesat signed an agreement in 2019 with Blue Origin for launch services on the New Glenn rocket under a non-exclusive arrangement.
NASA delayed a decision on which of the three companies that won base period HLS contracts in April 2020—Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX—will receive Option A awards to proceed with lander development.
Competition from companies using thousands of smallsat LEO constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink and Blue Origin contributed to Loon’s business case failure.
The two-month no-cost extensions allow the HLS contracts awarded in 2020-04-01 to Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX to run through 2021-04-30 without providing additional funding to the companies.
NASA will execute two-month no-cost extensions to the HLS contracts with Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX that were set to end on 2021-02-28.