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Under Blue Origin’s LSA award, the Air Force agreed to provide Blue Origin up to $500,000,000 between 2019 and 2024 to prepare the reusable New Glenn rocket and associated infrastructure for military launches.
Blue Origin requests that the U.S. Air Force wait until 2021 before selecting the two companies to receive future national security launch contracts.
Without LSA funding, Blue Origin would not build a New Glenn vertical integration facility required for some military payloads or a launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base for polar launches.
Jeff Bezos sells $1,000,000,000 in Amazon stock annually to fund Blue Origin.
Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, which is developing the reusable New Glenn rocket to launch government and commercial satellites.
Blue Origin has challenged the Air Force’s plan to select only two companies to provide launch services from 2022 to 2026.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and OneWeb secured over $1,000,000,000 in investments in 2017.
The Air Force made Launch Service Agreement cost-sharing awards in October to Blue Origin’s New Glenn ($500,000,000), Northrop Grumman’s OmegA ($792,000,000), and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur ($967,000,000).
Blue Origin’s launcher concept is built around recovering boosters and the company plans to fly each of its core stages 12 times.
Blue Origin estimates the infrastructure cost required for New Glenn to launch national security payloads at approximately $1 billion, with about half intended to be funded by LSA money.
Blue Origin received an LSA award of $500,000,000 for New Glenn.
The total cost of the New Glenn program is north of $2.5 billion, including $1,000,000,000 for facilities in Florida where the rocket will be assembled and launched.
The Blue Origin study was part of a series of study contracts that NASA awarded in August to study future concepts to support commercial human spaceflight in low Earth orbit.
The Blue Origin presentation on reuse of the New Glenn second stage took place during a panel at the American Astronautical Society’s Goddard Memorial Symposium on 2019-03-20.
Blue Origin studied repurposing upper stages of its future New Glenn launch vehicle to serve as habitats or for other applications as part of NASA-funded commercialization studies.
Blue Origin developed the BE-4 engine to use liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen and to operate on an oxygen-rich staged-combustion cycle.
Blue Origin received a $500,000,000 Launch Service Agreement award from the U.S. Air Force to help build launch facilities, including at Vandenberg.
Blue Origin invested about $1,000,000,000 into the manufacturing facility and the launch facility at Cape Canaveral.
Blue Origin designed New Shepard with a recovery architecture based on vertical landing.
New rockets being developed by United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman might not be certified for national security launches until at least 2020 or 2021.