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Blue Origin is a Commercial space agency led by CEO: Jeff Bezos that was established in 2000 and operates in United States of America. Blue Origin has 38 successful launches and 1 failed attempts, with a cumulative tally of 39 launches, currently with 4 pending launches in the pipeline. Blue Origin has a tally of 39 attempted booster landings, of which 3 failed and 36 successful booster landings recorded.

Launchers

New Glenn

The New Glenn is a privately funded orbital launch vehicle in development by Blue Origin. New Glenn is described as a 7-meter-diameter (23 ft), two- or three-stage rocket.

New Glenn 9x4

The New Glenn 9x4 is a further enhanced variant of the current New Glenn rocket (the "7x2" configuration) by Blue Origin. The New Glenn 9x4 uses 9 updated BE-4 Block 2 engines on the reusable 1st stage and 4 BE-3U engines on the 2nd stage, with a 8.7 meters diameter payload fairing. It can carry 70 metric tons to low Earth orbit, 14 metric tons to Geostationary Orbit Direct, and 20 metric tons to Trans Lunar Injection.

New Shepard

The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.

Spacecraft

Crew Capsule 1

The Crew Capsule 1 is the first version of Blue Origin's New Shepard Crew Capsule.

It was launched on the first 6 flights of the New Shepard.

Flight Life: Reflown 6 times.

Crew Capsule 2.0

The Crew Capsule 2.0 is the newest version of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.

It is deisgned to spearate from the launcher stage below the Karman line and pursue a ballistic free flight above it before landing.

Flight Life: The capsule is designed to be reusable.

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