Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a Launch Vehicles company founded in 2000 and based in Kent, United States.
Founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000 and headquartered in Kent, Washington, Blue Origin is a privately funded space company that reached orbit for the first time with its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket in January 2025. It also flies the reusable suborbital New Shepard for space tourism and research, manufactures the BE-4 methane-oxygen engine (which also powers United Launch Alliance's Vulcan), and is developing the Blue Moon lunar lander for NASA's Artemis program. The company has historically been funded directly by Bezos.
Blue Origin is the best-capitalized challenger to SpaceX in heavy-lift launch, and its BE-4 engine supplies both New Glenn and ULA's Vulcan, making it a load-bearing piece of US launch infrastructure.
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