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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.
SpaceX and Blue Origin are years away from putting astronauts on the moon. Four other companies may get there first. 2025 Looks Like a Good Year for Stocks to Go to the Moon (Literally)
The roughly 320-foot (98-meter) New Glenn is not only the first Blue Origin rocket designed to be capable of hauling satellites to space, it’s also among the most powerful in the world.
SpaceX and Blue Origin have had a history of conflict. [5] [7] Blue Origin and SpaceX have had dueling press releases that compete with each other's announcements and events. [20] [21] SpaceX and Blue Origin battled for the right to lease Kennedy Space Center LC-39A, the rocket launch platform that was used to launch the Apollo Moon missions ...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is set for an inaugural launch of its giant New Glenn rocket on Sunday, a long-awaited first leap to Earth orbit that sets up one of the biggest challenges yet to industry ...
In January 2016, Blue Origin indicated that the new rocket would be many times larger than New Shepard even though it would be the smallest of the family of Blue Origin orbital vehicles. [11] Blue Origin publicly released the high-level design of the vehicle and announced the name New Glenn—with both two-stage and three-stage variants planned ...
Blue Origin, on the other hand, has struggled to bring its giant New Glenn rocket to market. In December last year, it tapped Amazon veteran Dave Limp to expedite development of its New Glenn rocket.
Blue Origin NS-24 was an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight mission of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, which launched on 19 December 2023. It was New Shepard's first flight in over a year since the failure of Blue Origin NS-23 , and was Blue Origin's 24th overall flight to go into space.