Blue Origin

operating 5,001–10,000 employees

Develops reusable heavy-lift launch vehicles, rocket engines, lunar landers, in-space logistics platforms, and satellite communications constellations.

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Blue Origin designs and manufactures reusable launch vehicles, rocket engines, lunar landers, and in-space transportation systems. Its flagship orbital vehicle, New Glenn, carries 45 metric tons to low Earth orbit and features a first stage designed for 25 reuse cycles powered by seven BE-4 engines. Blue Origin also produces the BE-4 engine for United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur and manufactures the BE-3U upper-stage and BE-7 lunar descent engines.

The company's Blue Moon program develops lunar landers for NASA's Artemis program under the Sustaining Lunar Development contract. Blue Ring is a multi-mission orbital platform providing payload hosting, transportation, refueling, and data relay from MEO to cislunar space. TeraWave is a planned 5,408-satellite constellation designed to deliver up to 6 Tbps of symmetrical bandwidth for enterprise and government customers.

Blue Origin operates launch facilities at Cape Canaveral, manufactures engines in Huntsville, Alabama, and maintains its headquarters in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is led by CEO Dave Limp.

Products & Services

BE-3PM Engine component

Liquid hydrogen engine powering New Shepard's suborbital booster

Hydrogen Reusable Suborbital Commercial

BE-3U Engine component

Liquid hydrogen upper-stage engine producing 200,000 lbf vacuum thrust for New Glenn's second stage

Hydrogen Commercial Space-to-Space

BE-4 Engine component

Oxygen-rich staged combustion engine producing 640,000 lbf thrust, powering New Glenn and ULA's Vulcan Centaur

Methane Commercial Space-to-Space

BE-7 Engine component in-development

Dual-expander cycle engine producing 10,000 lbf vacuum thrust for lunar lander applications

Hydrogen Cislunar Lunar Surface Government-Civil

Blue Moon MK1 vehicle in-development

Robotic lunar cargo lander capable of delivering up to 3 metric tons to the lunar surface using New Glenn's 7-meter fairing

Hydrogen Cislunar Lunar Surface Commercial

Blue Moon MK2 vehicle in-development

Crew-capable lunar lander developed under NASA's Sustaining Lunar Development contract for the Artemis program

Hydrogen Cislunar Lunar Surface Government-Civil

Blue Ring platform in-development

Multi-mission in-space logistics platform providing hosting, transportation, refueling, data relay, and edge computing from MEO to cislunar space

Electric Propulsion LEO MEO GEO

Honeybee Robotics Products component

Motion control systems and exploration systems for space robotics applications (acquired subsidiary)

Solar Arrays Radiation Hardened Lunar Surface Mars

New Glenn vehicle

Heavy-lift reusable orbital launch vehicle with a 7-meter fairing, capable of 45 metric tons to LEO and 13 metric tons to GTO, powered by seven BE-4 engines on a reusable first stage

Heavy-Lift Methane Reusable LEO

New Shepard vehicle

Fully reusable suborbital rocket system for human spaceflight and research payloads, reaching above the Karman line at 100 km altitude

Hydrogen Reusable Suborbital Commercial

TeraWave service in-development

Planned 5,408-satellite LEO/MEO constellation delivering up to 6 Tbps symmetrical bandwidth for enterprise and government customers

Government-Defense Enterprise Broadband

Locations

Kent, WA HQ

Huntsville, AL

Cape Canaveral, FL

Los Angeles, CA

Denver, CO

Reston, VA

Phoenix, AZ

Van Horn, TX

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