10/31/2023 0 Comments Blue origins![]() ![]() ![]() Initially as a rocket engine supplier for others, Blue Origin has become a part of a “dramatic metamorphosis” of the space industry in recent years, having moved into the orbital spaceflight technology business in 2014, when Blue Origin and launch operator United Launch Alliance (ULA) entered into a partnership whereby Blue Origin would produce a large rocket engine, the BE-4, for ULA’s Vulcan, the successor to the 10,000–19,000-kilogram-class (22,000–42,000 lb) Atlas V which has launched US national security payloads since the early 2000’s, and will exit service in the late 2010’s.īlue Origin designs, manufactures and assembles and operates two reusable launch vehicles, New Shepard and New Glenn. ![]() In 2017 and again in 2018, Bezos made public statements that he intends to fund Blue Origin with 1 billion USD per year from sales of his equity in Amazon. The company motto is Gradatim Ferociter, Latin for Step by Step, Ferociously and is spending 1 billion USD a year, funded by Jeff Bezos’ sales of Amazon stock. Blue Origin, headquartered in Kent, Washington USA, is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. The company’s name refers to the blue planet, Earth, as the point of origin.Ī founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos founded the Company in 2000. Since the founding, the company was very secretive about its plans and emerged from its “self-imposed silence” only after 2015. The Company develops both rocket propulsion systems for vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) vehicles for access to suborbital and orbital space. Blue Origin, LLC, a private American aerospace company, is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. ![]()
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