Blue Origin News

Latest Blue Origin news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 8 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.

About Blue Origin

Blue Origin is a private aerospace manufacturer and space technology company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000. It develops the reusable New Shepard suborbital rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn launch vehicle. New Glenn is contracted by Amazon's Project Kuiper to deploy parts of the company's broadband satellite constellation.

Headquartered in Kent, Washington, with major operations in Cape Canaveral, Florida and West Texas, Blue Origin remains privately held.

Key facts

• Headquarters: Kent, Washington, United States
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2000
• Sectors: Space & Satellites, Space Technology
• Website: https://www.blueorigin.com

Latest Blue Origin news

• Rendezvous Robotics Raises $20 Million to Build Spacecraft That Assemble Themselves in Orbit — Golden, Colorado-based Rendezvous Robotics raised a $20 million oversubscribed seed round to launch autonomous spacecraft tiles that connect and recon...
• NASA Picks $1.2B PRIMA Far-Infrared Telescope As First Probe Explorer — NASA has selected the PRIMA far-infrared space observatory, led by JPL and Caltech, as the first mission in its new Probe Explorers class, with a 2033...
• Blue Origin Wins $700M NASA Contract To Build Mars Telecommunications Orbiter — NASA on Sept. 2 awarded Blue Origin a firm-fixed-price contract worth up to $700 million to build and operate the Mars Telecommunications Network on t...
• Starcloud Adds $250M Series A Extension As Nvidia Bets On Orbital AI — Redmond-based Starcloud added a $250 million Series A extension led by Manhattan West Ventures, with NVIDIA writing a $25 million check to back its pl...
• Blue Origin traces New Glenn explosion to BE-4 oxygen valve, retrofits by end of August — Blue Origin has identified a failed main liquid-oxygen valve on a BE-4 engine as the cause of the May 28 New Glenn static-fire explosion and is retrof...
• Space Force Triples NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 Ceiling To $17B For Seven Providers — The U.S. Space Force raised the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 contract ceiling from $5.6 billion to $17 billion in a July 17, 2026 not...
• Space Force Adds Impulse Space, Relativity Federal to $5.6B NSSL Launch Roster — The Space Force has added Impulse Space and Relativity Federal to its $5.6 billion NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 launch program, expanding competition for lower...
• Blue Origin Vows To Fly New Glenn Again In 2026 After Pad 36 Blast — CEO Dave Limp says the propellant farm and processing hangar survived last week's spectacular New Glenn explosion at Cape Canaveral and that the rocke...