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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.
Blue Origin was also selected in June as a preferred provider for Pentagon contracts worth $5.6 billion — the first time it's been given the green light to launch national security satellites.
Blue Origin, founded in 2000, is the brainchild of Amazon CEO Bezos who envisions the company as a regular provider of space transport for both cargo and crew and a major player in making humanity ...
Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into New Glenn’s launch site, rebuilding historic Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. New Glenn was supposed to fly before dawn Monday, but ...
The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.
Honeybee Robotics, LLC is a subsidiary of Blue Origin that builds advanced spacecraft, robotic rovers, [1] and other technologies for the exploration of Mars [2] [3] and other planetary bodies in deep space. The company, headquartered in Longmont, Colorado, has additional facilities in Altadena, California and Greenbelt, Maryland. [4]
Either way, Amazon and Blue Origin have watched Musk’s space company race ahead in important areas. In April 2021, NASA awarded SpaceX a sole contact worth $2.9 billion for its lunar landing system.
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 ...