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The Blue Origin job description requires developing a detailed understanding of NASA, other government, and commercial needs, guiding iterative product strategy, and capturing external and internal sponsorship funding to establish viable LEO destination systems in the 2020s.
Blue Origin posted a job opening on 2020-09-18 for an "Orbital Habitat Formulation Lead" at its headquarters in Kent, Washington.
NASA planned to select in early 2021 one or more of the three companies working on the Human Landing System—Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX—to proceed into full-scale lander development.
Blue Origin has not publicly discussed LEO space station work in the past, but developing LEO destination systems aligns with Jeff Bezos’ long-stated strategy of enabling millions of people to live and work in space.
Blue Origin announced plans on 2020-09-22 to conduct another test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle designated NS-13.
The NS-13 New Shepard mission is scheduled to lift off from Blue Origin’s West Texas test site at 11 a.m. Eastern on 2020-09-24.
Blue Origin integrated and tested the lunar landing sensor experiment at its West Texas Launch Site prior to NS-13.
Blue Origin delivered a full-sized mockup of its lander to NASA’s Johnson Space Center for testing.
Blue Origin completed similar systems reviews of its lunar lander under a $579,000,000 HLS award and agreed with NASA on dozens of design and construction standards.
Brent Sherwood, vice president of Advanced Development Programs at Blue Origin, stated that achieving major milestones is the surest way to measure progress toward the first lunar landing.
The Human Landing System National Team, led by Blue Origin, has completed its System Requirements Review.
The Blue Origin-led team had an aggregate total of 62 design and construction standards across the three partners involved in the integrated lander.
Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX won Human Landing System awards from NASA in April to develop lunar landers for the Artemis missions.
Blue Origin has been performing tests of its BE-7 engine at Marshall Space Flight Center.
A Blue Origin-led national team that includes Draper, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman received a $579,000,000 NASA contract to design vehicles to land humans on the moon.
Draper provides descent guidance and avionics to the Blue Origin-led HLS National Team.
The Blue Origin-led team includes Northrop Grumman developing the transfer element that moves the lander in lunar orbit and Draper providing the guidance and avionics.
The Blue Origin-led HLS National Team delivered a full-scale engineering mockup of a crew lander vehicle to NASA Johnson Space Center’s Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Building 9) on 2020-08-20.
Blue Origin’s National Team installed a full-sized engineering mockup of its lunar lander in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center on 2020-08-20.
The full-sized, low-fidelity mockup includes a descent element developed by Blue Origin and an ascent element built by Lockheed Martin.