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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.

68.4
ARI Composite
Very Low Risk
#4 of 22
Peer Rank
Launch cohort
3
Total Launches
As lead operator
Not publicly disclosed
Estimated valuation
Private — reported

FINANCIAL HEALTH

68.4
ARI composite · Very Low Risk
Peer rank#4 of 22
Peer groupLaunch
Data coverage92%
Tracked gov contracts$2.31B across 8 awards

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 Briefing →
Nov 13, 2025 ESCAPADE 1 New Glenn 7X2 Success
Jan 16, 2025 DS-1 New Glenn 7X2 Success

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
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#4 of 22
Tracked peers22
Secondary sectors

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
May 01, 2026 Ars Technica — Space Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy is back; Russia's Soyuz-5 finally debuts
Apr 30, 2026 Ars Technica — Space Blue Origin certainly has ambitious launch targets for New Glenn
Apr 28, 2026 NASASpaceFlight Artemis III core stage assembly arrives at the Kennedy Space Center
Apr 28, 2026 Ars Technica — Space Put it in pencil: NASA's Artemis III mission will launch no earlier than late 2027
Apr 24, 2026 Ars Technica — Space Rocket Report: Artemis III rocket getting ready; SpaceX is now an AI company

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.