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Created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in September 2000, Blue Origin is a launch company with a number of rockets and engines in its portfolio. Blue Origin is behind New Shepard and New Glenn rockets, its Blue Moon lunar lander, and multiple Blue Origin-designed rocket engines for its own hardware as well as customer vehicles.

Company plans include space flight missions for passengers, payloads, and partners. Blue Origin also backs the Club for the Future, a foundation created in 2019 “to inspire future generations to pursue careers in STEM and to help invent the future of life in space.”

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Space Explored Podcast Episode 73: How has the space market fared in 2023?

This week on the Space Explored Podcast, Seth and Jared talk about the biggest and their favorite stories of the past week. To continue to wrap up 2023, the two discuss how the business side of space fared and went down over the year. Yes that means more talk about Astra.

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Amazon sued by shareholders for excluding SpaceX in Kuiper launch bid

A pension fund is suing Amazon over its contract to launch Kuiper satellites on Blue Origin, ULA, and Arianespace rockets because SpaceX was not included in the discussion. The suit argues that Bezos’ rivalry with Elon Musk created contracts that did not best meet the company’s fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders.

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Who will win the space tourist sector: Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic?

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Last Thursday, Virgin Galactic successfully launched its first group of commercial customers into space aboard its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane, named VSS Unity. This achievement occurred approximately one month after its previous flight. With Virgin Galactic now a significant player in the field, the question arises: Can they outpace Blue Origin in the realm of space tourism?

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Lucky Break: A third company could secure lucrative Space Force contract

Congress appears to be pushing the Space Force to add a third winner in the force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 contract. This move could potentially bring significant financial opportunities to a fortunate company, offering them a chance to become a major player in the space industry alongside ULA and SpaceX.

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Space Explored Podcast 64: Blue Origin gets help from NASA on an orbital crew system

This week Seth and Jared recap the week’s top stories like the first launch of Rocket Lab’s HASTE, Astra’s financial future, and more. Then the two deep dive into Blue Origin’s agreement with NASA to help in its development of an orbital crew system.

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Space Explored Podcast 60: How a Starship delay could ruin NASA’s Artemis plans

This week Seth and Jared discuss the week’s top stories and dig into the biggest one around the lawsuit against the FAA for letting Starship launch. We discuss what this could mean for SpaceX and more importantly NASA if there are any delays because of this.

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Blue Origin is moving in next door to SpaceX at Port Canaveral

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Blue Origin has been silently working on its next launch vehicle New Glenn for years now and we may be close to seeing its first launch in 2024. As it does with its New Shepard rocket, the company plans on recovering the first stage booster for reuse. While this plan has changed some, scrapping the boat Blue initially intended to land on, recovery of the first stage is still a major part of the New Glenn system. We previously noted on Twitter that Blue Origin had acquired a building complex within Port Canaveral, formerly used by SpaceX, and we now understand that it plans to base its recovery operations there. Now, a new permit shows the next area of the port Blue is looking to call home as it inches closer to the first New Glenn launch.

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