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Blue Origin

US
commercialFounded 2000
www.blueorigin.com/
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Blue Origin supports the Air Force continuing to support three U.S. launch service providers through 2023.

Mentioned as: blue originNarrative GrowthMay 3, 2020RAND finds risk in Air Force plan to support two launch companies

For the Phase 2 competition, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are developing new launch vehicles with company-stated first-flight readiness in 2021.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipMay 3, 2020RAND finds risk in Air Force plan to support two launch companies

Telesat signed a launch contract with Blue Origin in January 2019 for multiple New Glenn missions.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMay 1, 2020Telesat preparing for mid-2020 constellation manufacturer selection

NASA selected the Blue Origin National Team to begin development of the Artemis Human Landing System on 2020-04-30.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralApr 30, 2020NASA Selects Blue Origin National Team to Return Humans to the Moon

Blue Origin develops the Descent Element for the National Team based on the Blue Moon lander and the BE-7 engine.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginTechnical ProductApr 30, 2020NASA Selects Blue Origin National Team to Return Humans to the Moon

The Blue Origin-led team received a $579,000,000 Human Landing System award.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipApr 30, 2020NASA selects three companies for human landing system awards

Except for SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are offering newly designed rockets that RAND projects will be ready by 2021.

Mentioned as: blue originTechnical ProductApr 28, 2020Space and Missile Systems Center releases RAND study of space launch market

Blue Origin is hiring about 20 people a week and has more than 500 job openings across its facilities.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginTechnical ProductApr 17, 2020World View delays plans and furloughs staff because of pandemic

Blue Origin’s nonprofit Club for the Future encourages students, educators, and parents to draw postcards answering the question: 'What would you build in space that could help Earth?'

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 25, 2020Club for the Future At-Home Activity

Club for the Future engages K-12 students and teachers from around the world in activities that provide direct access to space through Blue Origin’s reusable launch vehicles.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 25, 2020Club for the Future At-Home Activity

The postcards created by students will be flown to space on an upcoming flight of Blue Origin’s fully reusable New Shepard rocket.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 25, 2020Club for the Future At-Home Activity

Club for the Future was founded in 2019 by Blue Origin.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 25, 2020Club for the Future At-Home Activity

Solstar tested the Schmitt Space Communicator in April and July 2018 on board Blue Origin’s New Shepard and transmitted the first tweets from space.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 24, 2020NASA to hand off spacecraft communications to industry

The CSF includes large space companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 23, 2020Space industry group warns small companies will not survive crisis without stimulus

Companies including Blue Origin advocate using cryogenic propellants such as liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen because those propellants could eventually be produced from lunar water ice if mining at the poles proves feasible.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 23, 2020Study recommends minimizing elements for Artemis lunar lander

Testing of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines intended for delivery to United Launch Alliance later in 2020 is proceeding as planned.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 17, 2020Blue Origin pressing on with rocket and engine development as industry copes with coronavirus

Blue Origin opened a 350,000-square-foot factory in Huntsville, Alabama in February 2020 to produce BE-4 and BE-3U engines for the New Glenn rocket.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipMar 17, 2020Blue Origin pressing on with rocket and engine development as industry copes with coronavirus

Blue Origin stood up a task force weeks before mid-March 2020 to lead its coronavirus response efforts.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginNarrative GeneralMar 17, 2020Blue Origin pressing on with rocket and engine development as industry copes with coronavirus

Blue Origin expects to qualify the BE-4 engine in 2020 and to ship some engines to United Launch Alliance for integration into Vulcan in 2020.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipMar 17, 2020Blue Origin pressing on with rocket and engine development as industry copes with coronavirus

Blue Origin plans to install tooling in the Huntsville factory in summer 2020 and start building a test stand for BE-4 and BE-3U engines.

Mentioned as: Blue OriginOrg RelationshipMar 17, 2020Blue Origin pressing on with rocket and engine development as industry copes with coronavirus
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