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Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P., [2] commonly referred to as Blue Origin [3] is an American aerospace manufacturer, government contractor, launch service provider, [4] [5] and space technologies [6] company headquartered in Kent, Washington, United States.
The company is headquartered on 11 hectares (26 acres) of industrial land in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where its research and development is located.The facility was 24,000 m 2 (260,000 sq ft) in size in early 2015, [3] growing to 28,000 m 2 (300,000 sq ft) by March 2016 with Blue Origin leasing additional space in adjacent office buildings.
830 m 3 (29,000 cu ft) Orbital Reef is an under development low Earth orbit (LEO) space station being designed by Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada Corporation 's Sierra Space for commercial space activities and space tourism uses. Blue Origin has referred to it as a "mixed-use business park". [1] The companies released preliminary concepts for the ...
(Reuters) -Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew - including the first U.S. Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s - from West Texas to the edge of space on Sunday ...
Watch liftoff of Blue Origin's New Shepard. The scheduled New Shepard flight lifted off at 9:07 a.m. ET into cloudy skies from Bezos' Launch Site One in rural West Texas over 140 miles east of El ...
Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) is a launch complex located at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Historically, it served as a launch pad for Atlas rockets operated by NASA and the U.S. Air Force from 1962 to 2005. [ 1 ][ 2 ] In 2015, Blue Origin leased LC-36 with the goal of developing a new launch site for its orbital rockets.
Limp, a former senior vice president at Amazon who led the company's consumer devices unit, will become Blue Origin's CEO on Dec. 4, an email from Bezos, Blue Origin's founder, said.
The first hotfire-tested Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine, serial number 103, at the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 2018, showing the liquid methane inlet side of the engine The New Glenn is a 7 m (23 ft) diameter two-stage orbital launch vehicle with a reusable first stage [ 22 ] and an expendable second stage. [ 42 ]