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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket scheduled for the inaugural flight is carrying a technology demonstration payload and had not launched as of the 2024-12-09 statement from the company.
Amazon’s Kuiper program contracted up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance, which is characterized as the largest commercial launch deal and could imply launch Capex as high as $6,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000 at current market prices.
Blue Origin plans to launch the first 2024-03-01 version of its Blue Moon lunar lander in 2025.
Blue Origin continues to work toward a first launch of the New Glenn orbital launch vehicle later 2024.
On 2024-01-22, Redwire won a contract from Blue Origin to provide four Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) systems, cameras, and power distribution units.
Blue Origin plans to increase New Shepard flight cadence in 2024.
Blue Origin aims for a 2024 first launch of its New Glenn rocket, which is contracted to launch NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars.
A new entrant such as Blue Origin could be awarded a Lane 2 contract on the assumption that its New Glenn rocket will be operational and certified by October 2026, with fiscal year 2027 missions assigned to other providers until New Glenn is certified.
Astrobotic is part of the Blue Origin National Team that won a contract for NASA’s Artemis program to develop and provide human and large cargo lunar landing services.
Blue Origin plans to invest well north of $3,400,000,000 to develop the Blue Moon lander.
Blue Origin previously won a contract from Amazon in April 2023 for 12 Project Kuiper launches with an option for 15 additional launches.
Blue Origin completed testing of the BE-4 main booster engines and delivered the first two BE-4 engines for Vulcan’s maiden flight.
Blue Origin completed delivery of the first BE-4 shipset to United Launch Alliance and shipped the engines to ULA’s factory in Decatur, Alabama after final acceptance testing.
Blue Origin successfully completed its sixth human spaceflight and the 22nd flight of the New Shepard program on 2022-08-04.
Blue Origin successfully completed the NS-21 New Shepard flight on Saturday, 2022-06-04.
Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance to deploy most of its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper, in contracts worth several billion dollars.
Blue Origin and Relativity Space plan to make their debut launches sometime 2022.
Blue Origin has not yet delivered flight-ready BE-4 engines required for Vulcan Centaur’s maiden flight as of early 2022.
Blue Origin conducted three crewed flights of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle in 2021, most recently on 2021-12-11, taking a total of 14 people to altitudes above 100 km.
Blue Origin successfully completed its second human spaceflight on New Shepard on 2021-10-13.