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The company is headquartered on 11 hectares (26 acres) of industrial land in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where its research and development is located.The facility was 24,000 m 2 (260,000 sq ft) in size in early 2015, [3] growing to 28,000 m 2 (300,000 sq ft) by March 2016 with Blue Origin leasing additional space in adjacent office buildings.
The Blue Ring vehicle was announced in October 2023 by Blue Origin. It will have its own engine and is meant to handle orbital logistics and delivery. In March 2024, in partnership with the United States Space Force , it was announced that the Blue Ring’s capabilities will be tested soon on a mission called DarkSky-1.
Nova is a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle being developed by Stoke Space. [15] Announced in October 2023, [16] Stoke Space plans to use two stages with an expected payload capacity of 5 tons (5,000 kg) to low Earth orbit (), with the first stage performing a return-to-launch-site (RTLS) landing.
Jeff Bezos -founded space technology company Blue Origin officially cut the ribbon to open its new HQ and R&D facility, located in Kent, Wash. -- close by to Amazon's own headquarters. The new ...
The arrival of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has turned the once-sleepy West Texas town of Van Horn into a burgeoning space industry hub. In 2004, Bezos purchased the 30,000-acre Figure 2 Ranch just ...
Blue Origin started working on BE-4 in 2011, and though it was originally designed for use specifically on Blue Origin's own New Glenn rocket, which is its first orbital launch vehicle, in 2014 ...
Kent is a city in King County, Washington, United States.It is part of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan area and had a population of 136,588 as of the 2020 census, [5] making it the 4th most populous municipality in greater Seattle and the 6th most populous in Washington state.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Defense picked Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance (ULA) to compete for national ...