Redwire supplies four Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) wings, multiple Argus cameras, and Low Voltage Distribution Units (LVDUs) for Blue Origin’s Blue Ring multi-orbit space mobility platform under a 2024 contract; also partnered on Orbital Reef concepts.
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory added $11.7 million to Blue Origin contract for studying rocket-based point-to-point cargo delivery, expanding total to about $13 million.
Blue Origin supplies BE-4 liquid methane/liquid oxygen engines (two per vehicle) for the first stage of ULA's Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle; first flight engines delivered in 2022 with ongoing production and acceptance testing for initial and subsequent launches.
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Blue Origin supplies and has delivered multiple BE-4 rocket engines (including the first shipset in 2022 and at least 30 engines total by late 2025) to United Launch Alliance for the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle under a long-term partnership and teaming arrangement that began with co-development in 2014; Blue Origin also makes BE-4 commercially available.
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AST SpaceMobile— customer · launch services2 connectionsTell me more
Blue Origin provides launch services on its New Glenn rocket to AST SpaceMobile under a multi-launch agreement announced November 2024 to deploy multiple Block 2 BlueBird satellites to LEO; the first such mission (NG-3) occurred in April 2026.
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Blue Origin provides launch services to AST SpaceMobile via New Glenn rocket, with a master launch agreement and planned/attempted launches for BlueBird satellites starting late 2025/2026.
SCOUT Space supplies its next-generation Owl space domain awareness sensor (with AI-driven processing and autonomous capabilities) for integration on Blue Origin's first Blue Ring multi-mission spacecraft, announced in July 2025, to demonstrate SDA in GEO.
NASA supplies technical expertise, assessments, lessons learned, technologies, and data to Blue Origin under unfunded Space Act Agreements via the 2023 CCSC-2 initiative to advance commercial space capabilities.
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Lockheed Martin— partner · program partner2 connectionsTell me more
Blue Origin leads the National Team (teaming agreements signed 2019 and updated 2023) with Lockheed Martin as a principal partner to develop the Artemis Human Landing System (Blue Moon lander) for NASA; Lockheed Martin develops the reusable Ascent Element vehicle and supports crewed operations.
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Blue Origin collaborates with Lockheed Martin (as part of National Team) on Blue Moon lunar lander proposals for NASA's Artemis program and on nuclear spacecraft development under DARPA's DRACO program (ongoing partnerships since 2020).
Blue Origin leads the National Team (teaming agreements signed 2019) with Northrop Grumman as a partner to develop the Artemis Human Landing System; Northrop Grumman develops the Transfer Element vehicle.
Blue Origin leads the National Team (teaming agreements signed 2019 and updated 2023) with Draper as a partner to develop the Artemis Human Landing System; Draper provides flight avionics, guidance, navigation, and control expertise.
Blue Origin acquired Honeybee Robotics in January 2022 (deal closed mid-February 2022), making it a wholly owned subsidiary focused on planetary robotics and mechanisms.
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Blue Origin acquired Honeybee Robotics in early 2022 (deal announced January 2022, closed mid-February 2022) as a wholly owned subsidiary to integrate its robotic systems, mechanisms, and planetary exploration capabilities into Blue Origin's space systems and lunar programs.
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Government awards & missions
NASA Stennis Space Center— test-facility-userTell me more
Blue Origin will use the Thad Cochran Test Stand B-Test Complex at NASA Stennis Space Center for New Glenn second-stage hotfire tests. · New Glenn upper-stage hotfire testing.
The named facility and its test purpose are stated in the NASA-Blue Origin announcement.
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Artemis V— human-lunar-landing-system-providerTell me more
Blue Origin is developing the Blue Moon Mark 2 human landing system for the Artemis V crewed lunar mission. · Crew-capable Blue Moon Mark 2 lunar lander and associated cislunar transportation architecture.
NASA states that Blue Origin's lander is to support its Artemis V mission.
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ESCAPADE— mission-launch-providerTell me more
Blue Origin launched NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft on New Glenn from Launch Complex 36. · Mars heliophysics mission studying solar-wind interaction with Mars' magnetic environment and upper atmosphere.
NASA records ESCAPADE's launch aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration— human landing system providerTell me more
Blue Origin will provide NASA with a Blue Moon human landing system/lander designed, developed, tested, and verified to meet NASA requirements.
NASA explicitly states that it selected Blue Origin to develop the human landing system and that Blue Origin will perform the associated lander work under the contract.
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