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Blue Origin

Active Launch Private HQ: Kent, Washington Founded 2000

Debuted New Glenn heavy-lift orbital rocket in 2025. Blue Moon lunar lander for NASA Artemis. Orbital Reef commercial station (with Sierra Space). BE-4 engines for ULA Vulcan. Reportedly acquiring ULA.

63.0
ARI Composite
Very Low Risk
#6 of 30
Peer Rank
Launch cohort
3
Total Launches
As lead operator
Not publicly disclosed
Estimated valuation
Private — reported

FINANCIAL HEALTH

63.0
ARI composite · Very Low Risk
Peer rank#6 of 30
Peer groupLaunch
Data coverage100%
Tracked gov contracts$2.61B across 8 awards

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital
$2.61B lifetime tracked obligations across 8 awards — top agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($2.53B) (strict id-matched; unattributed award rows are excluded). Explore grants →
Source: USAspending.gov award obligations matched to this company. Obligations, not recognized revenue.

SCHEDULE CREDIBILITY

How well this operator historically meets its own projected dates — launch NETs, company-announced roadmap milestones, and forward-dated facility plans. 100 = says what it does. Discount forward guidance accordingly.

68.4
SCI · Low confidence · 5 dated commitments
Behavioral read
systematically aggressive: held its 1 tracked launch date within 1 day; 2/4 roadmap milestones ran >30 d past target (median 159 d late)
Source Events Late (share) Median slip Median slip, late only Sub-score On-time allowance
Launch NETs 1 0 (0%) 0 d 100.0 1 d
Roadmap milestones 4 2 (50%) 54.5 d 159 d 60.5 30 d

WORST SLIPS (RECEIPTS)

Commitment Source Announced Outcome Slip
First commercial New Glenn mission (New Glenn) open, 209d past target Roadmap milestones 2025 still open 209 d and counting
First successful New Glenn booster recovery (New Glenn) completed Roadmap milestones 2025 2026-04-19 109 d

SCI = 100 × Σ(event credit) ÷ N over the trailing 36 months (2023-07-29 → 2026-07-28). Event credit = 1.0 when the commitment met its announced date (launches: net NET slip < 1 day; roadmap milestones & facility plans: within 30 days of the announced target window — month/year-precision targets count the whole period as on-time), else 30 ÷ (30 + days late beyond that allowance). Sources are pooled, so each source weighs by its event count. Sources: launch NET-change log (LL2 ingest, tracked since 2026-04-17; flown launches in coverage + not-yet-flown launches already slipped ≥1 day; cancelled launches excluded), roadmap registry milestones (company-announced targets, verified provenance only; open milestones past target count as late by days-overdue), facility_plans rows with target_date after announced_at (filing-dated rows excluded). Confidence: high ≥20 events, medium ≥8, low ≥5; no score below 5 events. 100 = says what it does.

Window: 2023-07-29 → 2026-07-28 (36 months) · launch NET log live since 2026-04-17

FLEET COMPOSITION

Every vehicle this operator has flown. Linked profiles carry the full reliability + reuse + subsystem record.

Vehicle Class Launches Success rate Reuse
New Glenn 7X2 2 100.0%
New Glenn Heavy 1 0.0% First-stage reusable Profile →

SUBSYSTEM RELIABILITY

Aggregate subsystem outcomes across every vehicle this operator flies. Absence of a row means "not tracked yet" — never fabricated success.

Booster Recovery
S 0 · PS 0 · F 0 · N 1
Communication Link 0%
S 0 · PS 0 · F 1 · N 1
Main Engine 100%
S 1 · PS 0 · F 0 · N 1
Payload Deploy 0%
S 0 · PS 1 · F 0 · N 1

RECENT LAUNCHES

Date Mission Vehicle Orbit Outcome
Apr 19, 2026 BlueBird Block 2 #2 New Glenn LEO Partial Source ↗ · Briefing →
Nov 13, 2025 ESCAPADE 1 New Glenn 7X2 Success Source ↗
Jan 16, 2025 DS-1 New Glenn 7X2 Success Source ↗

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
Jul 09, 2026 Contract Award $10.00B Critical
Jul 08, 2026 Vc Series C $10.00B Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself Critical
Jun 06, 2026 Contract Award $188.0M NASA, Blue Origin High
May 30, 2026 Contract Award Blue Origin High
May 18, 2023 Contract Award $1.70B National Aeronautics and Space Administration, BLUE ORIGIN MANUFACTURING, LLC Critical

Full deal history →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorLaunch
Rank within sector#6 of 30
Tracked peers30
Secondary sectors

RECENT COVERAGE

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameBlue Origin, LLC
OwnershipPrivate
HeadquartersKent, Washington
CountryUS
Founded2000
FounderJeff Bezos
CEODave Limp
AliasesBlue Origin, BO
Key programsNew Glenn, New Shepard, Blue Moon, BE-4 Engine, Orbital Reef
Gov customersNASA, DoD, Space Force
Estimated valuationNot publicly disclosed
Last fundingPrivately funded by Jeff Bezos
IPO statusNo IPO plans announced

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Blue Origin official news page — confirms Blue Origin is the operator of New Glenn (Nov 2025 Block-2 upgrade announcement) and establishes launch-services/lunar/space-stations sector participation.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

Not investment advice. For insurance underwriting, verify against primary-source filings and operator investigation reports.