Blue Origin

Blue Origin develops reusable rocket engines, launch vehicles, in-space systems and lunar landers. The company's stated objective is to lower the cost of access to space substantially, with the long-term aim of enabling millions of people to live and work beyond Earth. Its engineering approach is described as methodical and incremental: each vehicle is intended to build on the last in a step-by-step reduction of barriers to spaceflight.

The product line spans suborbital and orbital flight as well as lunar operations. New Shepard is a suborbital space vehicle designed to lower barriers to space access. New Glenn is an orbital launch vehicle. Blue Moon is a lunar lander intended to support a permanent human presence on the Moon. The company also builds reusable rocket engines, which it regards as central to reducing launch costs.

The company works across several industry verticals, including space launch services, space exploration, lunar landers and in-space infrastructure, with stated ambitions extending to off-world heavy industry. Its geographic scope runs from Earth and low Earth orbit to the Moon and, in the longer term, deep space. Blue Origin describes its workforce as engineers, scientists and visionaries, and frames its mission around the belief that Earth's resources are finite and that expanding beyond the planet is necessary to preserve its biosphere. The company also aims to widen access to space beyond governments and professional astronauts to entrepreneurs, researchers and private individuals.