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Blue Origin

New Glenn rocket lifts off

Space Force allocates $2.4B in national security launch contracts to Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has been awarded $2.4 billion in the U.S. Space Force’s latest round of procurement for future national security launches. “It’s an honor and huge… Read More

Worker shines up BE-3U engine

Blue Origin rocket engine gives a boost to Museum of Flight’s Simonyi Space Gallery

Seattle’s Museum of Flight has brought its collection of space artifacts up to the present day, thanks to a rocket engine that’s been donated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space… Read More

Illustration: Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander on moon with Earth in background

Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander is on deck to deliver NASA payload to the moon

NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1 cargo lander to deliver a scientific payload to the moon’s south polar region as soon as this summer. The… Read More

Six pictures of Blue Origin crew: Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee; Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings”; pop superstar Katy Perry; and Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn and Amanda Nguyen, three advocates for women in STEM. (Blue Origin Photos)

Jeff Bezos’ fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, will lead female crew on Blue Origin’s next space trip

The next suborbital spaceflight planned by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is due to follow through on the dream of Bezos’ fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, to lead an all-woman crew… Read More

Blue Origin New Shepard booster descends to landing

Blue Origin’s latest suborbital space trip hits milestones – and throws in a mystery

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent its 10th crew on a quick suborbital ride to space today, extending its list of spacefliers to more than 50. And that list… Read More

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on Florida launch pad

Blue Origin to lay off 10% of workforce — read memo from CEO to employees

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to cut about 10% of its workforce, according to an announcement Thursday by the Kent, Wash.-based company’s CEO. “Our primary focus in 2025… Read More

Descent of Blue Origin New Shepard booster

Blue Origin puts a lunar spin on suborbital research flight of New Shepard rocket ship

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes’ worth of moon-level gravity. The uncrewed mission,… Read More

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket rises from Florida launch pad

Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time, marking a milestone for Jeff Bezos

For the first time ever, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit, using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. The two-stage rocket lifted off from Launch… Read More

New Glenn rocket on Florida launch pad

Blue Origin reschedules orbital debut of New Glenn rocket, then re-reschedules it

Over the course of just a few hours today, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture made two adjustments to the schedule for launching its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket to orbit… Read More

Blue Origin rocket on Florida launch pad

Technical snag forces another delay for the first orbital launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture counted down to the final hour tonight, but in the end, the company had to postpone the first-ever orbital launch of its heavy-lift New… Read More

New Glenn rocket on launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Launch Complex 36 in Florida

Blue Origin postpones first launch of New Glenn rocket due to high seas for landing

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s delaying the first-ever launch of its orbital-class New Glenn rocket due to unfavorable weather conditions for landing the first-stage booster. Liftoff from… Read More

Blue Origin New Glenn integrated vehicle hotfire test

Blue Origin completes its last major test to get ready for first New Glenn rocket launch

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s put its orbital-class New Glenn rocket through its last major test in preparation for its first-ever launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force… Read More

New Shepard landing

Blue Origin flight sends husband and wife on their second suborbital trip to space

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent six more people to the edge of space today — including the first husband-and-wife pair to make two trips together to the final… Read More

Illustration: BlueBird satellites in orbit

AST SpaceMobile chooses Blue Origin’s New Glenn rockets for satellite launches

AST SpaceMobile plans to use Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to launch some of the satellites for its space-based cellular broadband network in 2025 and 2026. New Glenn has been… Read More

BE-4 engines on Blue Origin New Glenn booster.

Space shots: A tangled web of speculation surrounds Boeing, Blue Origin and Bezos

Is Boeing thinking about unloading some of its space projects? Is Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture a potential buyer? And in light of former President Donald Trump’s increasingly close… Read More

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket ship lifts off from Texas launch pad

Blue Origin lofts new New Shepard capsule into space for test run before carrying crew

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture successfully sent a brand-new New Shepard rocket ship on an uncrewed shakedown cruise today, with the aim of increasing the company’s capacity to take… Read More

Blue Origin New Shepard booster

Blue Origin donates historic New Shepard booster and space capsule to Smithsonian

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has donated a New Shepard rocket booster, plus a New Shepard capsule, to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The history-making hardware will… Read More

Workers mate sections of New Glenn's first stage

Blue Origin shifts its plans for New Glenn rocket after NASA postpones Mars mission

NASA is delaying the launch of its ESCAPADE probes to Mars, which means plans for the debut of Blue Origin’s heavy-lift New Glenn rocket will change as well. New Glenn… Read More

Blue Origin sends six people on suborbital space trip, marking a first for researchers

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today provided a brief dose of spaceflight to six people, including the first researcher to conduct his own experiment on a suborbital space trip… Read More

Portraits of Blue Origin NS-26 crew members

Blue Origin sets a date for its next flight to launch people and experiments into space

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says its next suborbital spaceflight is set for Aug. 29, with a space researcher and a college senior among the mission’s six spacefliers. Next… Read More

New Glenn first-stage simulator being maneuvered in Florida

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket program reportedly faces failures during testing

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has encountered two recent failures in its efforts to get orbital-class New Glenn rockets ready for future launches from Florida, Bloomberg News reported today.… Read More

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket and Stoke Space's Nova rocket. (Blue Origin / Stoke Space Illustrations)

Space Force clears Blue Origin and Stoke Space to bid for fast-turnaround launches

The U.S. Space Force has added Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Stoke Space, a startup that’s headquartered nearby in Kent, Wash., to a list of eligible providers for… Read More

Illustration: New Glenn rocket

Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA on Pentagon list for $5.6B in launch contracts

The Department of Defense has put Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin in the running for a share of up to $5.6 billion in national security space launch contracts, marking a first… Read More

Blue Origin New Shepard launch in West Texas

Blue Origin flies its first crew in 21 months — and writes another page in space history

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today resumed sending people on suborbital space trips after a 21-month gap, and made a Black aerospace pioneer’s 60-year-old dream come true in the… Read More

Blue Origin New Shepard spaceship on launch pad in 2022

Blue Origin sets the date for its first crewed suborbital space trip in 21 months

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has set the date for the long-delayed start of its next chapter in the history of spaceflight. Six spacefliers are scheduled to take a… Read More

New Glenn pathfinder rocket being rolled out from Blue Origin's Florida factory

Happy Space Day! Contest will offer kids a chance to visit Blue Origin’s rocket factory

The first Friday in May is National Space Day, which makes today a fitting time to announce a contest that will give eight students an opportunity to tour Blue Origin’s… Read More

Ed Dwight as test pilot

Blue Origin puts a test pilot who could have been NASA’s first Black astronaut on its next space crew

If the fates decided differently, Air Force test pilot Ed Dwight could have become NASA’s first Black astronaut in the 1960s — but he lost out, amid racial controversy. Now… Read More

Blue Ring logistics platform in Earth orbit

Blue Origin plans to test Blue Ring space platform on Pentagon’s DarkSky-1 mission

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says that technology for its Blue Ring orbital platform will be put to the test during an upcoming mission sponsored by the Pentagon’s Defense… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Amazon, Flexport exec Tim Collins joins Blue Origin as supply chain chief

Tim Collins, most recently an executive vice president at Flexport and a former top Amazon leader, announced Saturday that he’s joining Blue Origin as vice president of supply chain. Collins… Read More

Blue Moon MK1 lander

Blue Origin targets 2025 for cargo lander’s inaugural moon trip, with humans to follow

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is aiming to send an uncrewed lander to the surface of the moon in the next 12 to 16 months, according to the executive… Read More

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