Blue Origin (BO)
Blue Origin is a commercial space agency, led by CEO: Jeff Bezos, established in 2000, operating out of United States of America.
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
Blue Origin Launch & Landing Record
| Total Launches | 41 |
|---|---|
| Successful Launches | 39 |
| Failed Launches | 2 |
| Pending Launches | 4 |
| Attempted Booster Landings | 41 |
| Successful Booster Landings | 38 |
| Failed Booster Landings | 3 |
| Consecutive Successful Landings | 12 |
Blue Origin Launchers
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.
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.
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.
Blue Origin Spacecraft
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.
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.