Blue Origin

CORE BUSINESS

We are building a road to space for the benefit of Earth, humanity’s blue origin. Our team is focused on radically reducing the cost of access to space and harnessing its vast resources while mobilizing future generations to realize this mission. Blue Origin builds and operates reusable rocket engines, launch vehicles, in-space systems, and lunar landers. Discover more at BlueOrigin.com.

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

  • New Glenn is a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. The New Glenn family includes two configurations, named for the number of engines on the first and second stages: the current 7x2 variant and the super-heavy class 9x4 variant. The 7x2 vehicle is capable of carrying 13 metric tons to GTO and 45 metric tons to LEO. The first stage is fully reusable and built for a minimum of 25 missions. New Glenn 9x4 is designed for missions requiring additional capacity and performance. The vehicle carries over 70 metric tons to LEO, over 14 metric tons direct to GTO, and over 20 metric tons to trans-lunar injection. The 9x4 features a larger 8.7-meter fairing.
  • Blue Moon is our line of lunar landers, including Blue Moon Mark-1 (MK1), capable of landing three metric tons on the lunar surface, and Mark-2 (MK2), serving the Artemis Program, and capable of landing and supporting four crew.
  • Blue Ring is our space mobility platform, providing multi-mission deployment and end-to-end services that span hosting, transportation, refuelling, data relay, and logistics, including an in-space edge computing capability. It’s capable of hosting up to 13 payloads totalling three metric tons in GEO and beyond.
  • Blue Alchemist is our in-space resources initiative to make long-term presence on the Moon viable, including prospecting initiatives and making power systems from materials on the Moon.
  • Blue Engines (BE) is our line of high-performance engines, including BE-3PM, BE-3U, BE-4, and BE-7, powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight missions.
  • Orbital Reef is our commercial LEO destination, a vertically integrated solution for end-to-end destination services in Earth orbit. It takes advantage of New Glenn’s large fairing and high payload mass performance to LEO to launch habitats that create much larger volumes than current ISS modules.
  • TeraWave is a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. TeraWave is optimized for enterprise, data center, and government customers. TeraWave adds a space-based layer to existing network infrastructure, providing connectivity to locations unreachable by traditional methods. 

MAIN CUSTOMERS

Blue Origin supports all segments of the space industry, including commercial, civil, and national security customers in the United States, Europe, and globally.

MAJOR SPACE PROJECTS

  • Blue Origin is proud to support the United States-led Artemis Program to return humans to the surface of the Moon through the Human Landing System contract. We seek ways to expand access to the lunar surface for other customers through our planned lunar architecture and through opportunities like NASA’s Moon Base program.

  • We are partnering with the Luxembourg Space Agency on Project Oasis, a multi-phase initiative to identify key lunar resources from orbit, assess them on the ground, and harness them in situ. It will create the most detailed high-resolution maps to date of lunar water ice, Helium-3, radionuclides, rare earth elements, precious metals, and other materials crucial for humanity’s expansion into space for the benefit of Earth.

  • We serve the United States Space Force and other customers through the National Security Space Launch program, providing critical access to space for the nation’s most important space assets. 

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