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blueorigin.com. 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.
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 station on 25 October ...
The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4) [ 5] is an oxygen-rich [ 6] liquefied-methane-fueled staged-combustion rocket engine produced by Blue Origin. The BE-4 was developed with private and public funding. [ 7] The engine has been designed to produce 2.4 meganewtons (550,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level. [ 8]
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) -The chief executive officer of Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin, Bob Smith, will step down at the end of the year to be replaced by former Amazon executive Dave ...
Blue Origin launched 6 tourists to the edge of space from West Texas. Ed Dwight, first Black astronaut candidate, now oldest person to see space.
Blue Origin later revealed that the cause of the failure was a problem with the engine nozzle, a large cone that directs the flaming exhaust at the rocket’s bottom. Onboard computers accurately ...
Atlas II(retired) Atlas III(retired) New Glenn(future) New Armstrong(future) Launch Complex 36(LC-36)—formerly known as Space Launch Complex 36(SLC-36) from 1997 to 2010—is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Stationin Brevard County, Florida. It was used for Atlaslaunches by NASAand the U.S. Air Forcefrom 1962 until 2005.