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Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. is an American space technology company headquartered in Kent, Washington. The company operates the suborbital New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles, including United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur.
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.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just became more tangible. The company has officially started construction on a factory in Huntsville, Alabama that will produce the BE-4 engines powering both New ...
[7] [8] In 2021, the corporation created the subsidiary, Sierra Space, to continue working on the development of the Dream Chaser spaceplane and Commercial Space Station with Blue Origin [9] [10] The organization is a multi-billion-dollar corporation with over 4,000 employees.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The CEO of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced in an all-hands call on Thursday company-wide layoffs of "about 10 percent" of its employees, a sweeping readjustment as it aims ...
The development of New Glenn has spanned three Blue Origin CEOs and faced numerous delays as Elon Musk's SpaceX grew into an industry juggernaut with its reusable Falcon 9, the world's most active ...
Meyerson announced the selection of Huntsville, AL as the location of Blue Origin's rocket engine production factory in June 2017. [12] Blue Origin began work on the BE-4 in 2011, [13] although the public announcement was made in September 2014. [14] This was their first engine to combust liquid oxygen and methane propellants.
Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin company is exploring space to protect Earth and keep ‘the natural world’ from backsliding Alan Murray, Nicholas Gordon March 1, 2024 at 12:24 AM