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Blue Origin

Blue Origin

Blue Origin is an American, privately-funded, aerospace developer and manufacturer that is interested in lowering the cost of spaceflight in order to explore the solar system

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Company
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Organization
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Industry
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Satellite
Satellite
Launch vehicle
Launch vehicle
Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL)
Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL)
Aerospace manufacturer
Aerospace manufacturer
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Clean technology
Clean technology
Spaceflight
Spaceflight
...
Location
United States
United States
Kent, Washington
Kent, Washington
Washington (state)
Washington (state)
B2X
B2B
B2B
CEO
Bob Smith (executive)
Bob Smith (executive)
Founder
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
0
AngelList URL
angel.co/blue-origin
Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles.../56325-79
Legal Name
Blue Origin, LLC
Legal classification
Private limited company
Private limited company
Number of Employees (Ranges)
10,001+0
Email Address
info@blueorigin.com
Phone Number
+12538720411
Number of Employees
2,000
Full Address
21218 76TH AVE S KENT, WA 98032 UNITED STATES
Investors
DARPA
DARPA
NASA
NASA
DUNS Number
618309723
Founded Date
2000
0
Total Funding Amount (USD)
13,000,000
Latest Funding Round Date
August 2018
Competitors
Hermeus
Hermeus
Space Perspective
Space Perspective
World View
World View
0
First Mode
First Mode
Stoke Space
Stoke Space
CFO
‌
Susan Knapp
0
Latest Funding Type
‌
Grant (money)
NAICS Code
336,414
CAGE Code
5VWN7
Patents Assigned (Count)
22
Wellfound ID
blue-origin
Country
United States
United States
Headquarters
Kent, Washington
Kent, Washington

Other attributes

Company Operating Status
Active
Owner
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
0
Partner Organizations
Artemis Program
Artemis Program
Wikidata ID
Q885836

Blue Origin is an American, privately-funded aerospace developer and manufacturer interested in lowering spaceflight costs to explore the solar system. The company was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos in Kent, Washington, United States.

The company has begun developing and designing aerospace capabilities designed to provide launch, landing, stop, and restart capabilities. Blue Origin has built and tested multiple generations of suborbital and orbital spaceflight. The vision of Blue Origin is to have millions of people living and working in space and to implement the use of reusable launch vehicles to make the normal.

New Shepard

The New Shepard is a reusable suborbital rocket system, named after the first American astronaut to space, Alan Shepard. The system is designed to take astronauts and research payloads beyond the boundary of space within eleven minutes. The reusable rocket has a capsule that can hold six people. The system launches up to the Karman Line, where the capsule holding passengers separates into free flight as the engine booster descends for landing. Parachutes are deployed when the capsule is landing in the West Texas desert.

New Glenn

The New Glenn is a reusable orbital launch vehicle designed to carry people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond. The vehicle is named after astronaut John Glenn. It is designed to perform a minimum of 25 space flights and be utilized for civil, commercial, and national security purposes. The vehicle is designed to launch in 95% of weather conditions and will launch from Cape Canaveral. Blue Origin expects to be operational with the New Glenn by 2021.

Blue Moon

Blue Moon is a lunar lander designed to deliver various small, medium, and large payloads to the lunar surface to enable a sustainable human presence on the moon. The vehicle borrows technology from the New Shepard and can provide precision guidance, vertical landing, and operating with landing gear systems. The lander can land multiple metric tons of payload on the moon and provide kilowatts of power to payloads. Blue Origin looks to return Americans to the moon in 2024.

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Blue Moon

https://www.blueorigin.com/blue-moon

Web

Blue Origin

https://www.blueorigin.com

Web

Blue Origin | Crunchbase

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blue-origin#section-overview

Web

Jeff Bezos aims Blue Origin at the Moon

Matt Burns, Jonathan Shieber

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/09/jeff-bezos-aims-blue-origin-at-the-moon/

Web

Jeff Bezos unveils his big plans for the moon

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2019/05/09/bezos-blue-moon-blue-origin-zw-scn-orig.cnn

May 9, 2019

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