Launch
Kent, WA, US
Blue Origin
New Glenn, New Shepard, BE-4 engines, Blue Moon. Based in Kent, WA, US, founded 2000 by Jeff Bezos.
- Where
- Kent, WA, US
- Founded
- 2000
- Staff
- 3,501
No chief executive on record here, and no disclosed holdings on file, which above 5% would come from SEC filings. We show a name only where we can point at the page it came from.
Where they are 13
Headquarters in Kent, and hiring in 12 other places on their live postings: Space Coast Regional Airport, Huntsville, San Francisco Bay Area, Van Horn, Los Angeles, Arlington and 6 more. Every company on one map
New Glenn, New Shepard, BE-4 engines, Blue Moon.
Open roles 379
All 379 open roles, prefiltered on the jobs index
Launch record 1 flown
The record shows 1 flown and 4 scheduled, from Apr 19, 2026 onward, 1 of them recorded by both Launch Library and the Wikipedia launch lists. This is what we hold rather than the company's full history: our launch record begins where our collection does.
| Date | Mission | Outcome | Grade | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 2026 | New Glenn | NG-4/LN-01 | Go | ||
| Dec 20, 2026 | New Glenn | NG-6 | Go | ||
| Dec 20, 2026 | New Glenn | NG-7 | Go | ||
| Dec 3, 2026 | New Glenn | NG-5 | Go | ||
| Apr 19, 2026 | New Glenn | BlueBird Block 2 #2 | Failure | F | 0 |
On the record 3 claims
- Missed in the next couple of weeks November 2025
- At risk We want to be hardware rich. So, you know, we want to try to keep building as fast as we can,… During 2026
- At risk We will return to flight by the end of this year. End of 2026
Of these, 2 at risk, 1 missed. Each claim's full quote, source and evidence is on Claims & outcomes.
In the news 4
- Commercial Rockets Bring New Life to Stennis
- Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract
- In 2021, Blue Origin challenged NASA’s decision to award SpaceX its first crewed lunar-lander contract. Now, in a striking reversal, Blue Origin has won a NASA Mars communications-orbiter contract worth up to $700 million—and losing bidder Rocket Lab has filed its own protest with the same federal watchdog.
- Rocket Lab protests NASA's decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract