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Financial terms of the CRADA were not disclosed and Blue Origin will fund capital improvements to a facility it will use for BE-7 engine tests.
Blue Origin unveiled the BE-7 engine in May 2019 as part of an updated design of the Blue Moon lunar lander.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and Blue Origin signed a 15-year cooperative research and development agreement on 2019-12-11 covering testing of Blue Origin’s BE-7 engine.
The October 2018 LSA contracts awarded $500,000,000 to Blue Origin, $967,000,000 to United Launch Alliance, and $762,000,000 to Northrop Grumman.
SpaceX is challenging the Air Force’s October 2018 decision to award Launch Service Agreements to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance.
Except for SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are offering newly designed rockets that RAND projects will be ready by 2021.
Eleven companies won concept study and prototype development awards from NASA in May, including Blue Origin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX, with a combined value of $45,500,000.
Blue Origin opened a new headquarters and R&D facility in Kent, Washington on 2020-01-06.
Blue Origin plans to conduct work to fly humans to space, build and design large engines and a large orbital rocket, and return to the Moon from operations centered in Kent.
Blue Origin broke ground on the Kent facility in January 2019 and completed construction in 11 months.
NS-12 hosted thousands of postcards submitted by students through Blue Origin’s nonprofit arm, Club for the Future.
OK Go partnered with Blue Origin to send the two winning Art in Space student art experiments on NS-12.
NS-12 carried two student art projects selected in a competition run by Blue Origin and rock band OK Go.
The NS-12 mission lifted off from Blue Origin’s West Texas test site at 12:53 p.m. Eastern.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman were developing new launch vehicles for the Phase 2 competition and projected first flights of those rockets in 2021.
The Government Accountability Office issued its decision on Blue Origin’s protest on 2019-11-18 and released a redacted version of the full decision on 2019-11-22.
Blue Origin argued that awarding Phase 2 contracts in 2020 would favor ULA and SpaceX because those companies already have certified vehicles and launch infrastructure.
The Air Force signed cost-sharing agreements in October 2018 with Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance to help pay for vehicle development and launch infrastructure.
The Air Force agreed to provide Blue Origin $500,000,000 between 2019 and 2024 to cover some costs of preparing the New Glenn rocket and related infrastructure to support military launches.
A 2019 study titled "Integrating Commercial Space Innovations into National Security Missions" recommended certifying multiple vendors based on agreed-upon base standards for mission assurance, capability, and business capacity, and that study was funded by Blue Origin, Leidos, and Rocket Lab.