Blue Origin

NASA shares updated render of the Cargo Starship variant

NASA shared updated renders of the SpaceX and Blue Origin cargo landers that will bring rovers and other equipment to…

Blue Origin set to fly its next crewed mission

Blue Origin is preparing its next crewed mission this month, its first with a crew in a year and a…

NASA selects Blue Origin to land Astronauts on the Moon

NASA has awarded Blue Origin $3.4 billion dollars for its Human Landing System (HLS), Blue Moon. Blue Moon will launch…

Blue Origin rocket launch fails after engine catches fire

Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard rocket suffered a catastrophic engine failure during its 23rd launch attempt, ending a seven-year streak…

Blue Origin scraps New Glenn recovery ship, finishes first ‘test tank’

After four years of halting work, Blue Origin has fully abandoned a transport ship it once intended to convert into…

Blue Origin successfully tests first New Glenn fairing prototype

Blue Origin has completed a crucial test of the payload fairing of their upcoming New Glenn rocket at NASA's Armstrong…

SpaceX and NASA defeat Blue Origin’s Starship Moon lander lawsuit

While specific details of the decision are likely a few weeks away, the US Court of Federal Claims has denied…

Elon Musk trolls Amazon’s Jeff Bezos after claiming title of ‘World’s Richest Person’

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk trolled Amazon's Jeff Bezos on Twitter earlier today after reclaiming the title of World's…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk explains why Blue Origin’s Starship lawsuit makes no sense

For the first time since SpaceX competitor Blue Origin took NASA to federal court after losing a Moon lander contract…

Blue Origin lawsuit forces SpaceX, NASA to stop joint work on Starship Moon lander

Days after Jeff Bezos space startup Blue Origin sued NASA over its decision to solely award SpaceX a contract to…

SpaceX’s Starship Moon lander under fire yet again as Blue Origin sues NASA

Less than three weeks after the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) categorically denied protests from Blue Origin and Dynetics over…

Rivian R1S transports passengers to Blue Origin’s first human flight

Blue Origin successfully launched and landed its first space flight with human passengers recently. Blue Origin's first astronauts rode a…

Blue Origin launches first suborbital tourists after six years and 15 test flights

More than six years after New Shepard's first test flight and nine years after a pad abort featuring a prototype…

SpaceX tops off Starship launch tower during Blue Origin crew launch briefing

On Sunday morning, SpaceX began the process of installing the last prefabricated section of Starship's skyscraper-sized 'launch tower' around the…

SpaceX’s NASA Starship contract safe for now as Blue Origin looks to Congress

Fresh off of a major contract loss during a competition to build NASA's next crewed Moon lander, Blue Origin has…

SpaceX’s upgraded Starship set for test flight despite sore NASA contract losers

Within the last week, while SpaceX has been diligently working to ready an upgraded Starship prototype for its first launch,…

SpaceX competitor Blue Origin completes first suborbital launch in 10 months

Prospective SpaceX competitor Blue Origin has completed a suborbital launch of its reusable New Shepard rocket for the first time…

SpaceX’s Starship Moon lander passes NASA review alongside Blue Origin, Dynetics

A variant of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft optimized to land NASA astronauts on the Moon has passed the space agency's first…

SpaceX’s Starship to spar with Blue Origin for NASA Moon landing contracts

On November 18th, NASA announced that it had added commercial Moon lander offerings from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corporation,…

Blue Origin teases first New Glenn rocket prototype at Blue Moon lander event

In May 2019, Blue Origin unveiled plans to build and launch "Blue Moon" lunar landers. Five months later, founder Jeff…