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[public]In a later tweet, ULA CEO Tory Bruno said that one of the engines had already been installed on the booster, and that the other would be joining it momentarily.

[public]In April 2017, an annual amount was published showing that Jeff Bezos was selling approximately $1 billion in Amazon stock per year to invest in the company. Jeff Bezos has been criticized for spending excessive amounts of his fortune on spaceflight.

[public]S government funding == By July 2014, Jeff Bezos had invested over $500 million into the company and the vast majority of further funding into 2016 was to support technology development and operations where a majority of funding came from Jeff Bezos' private investment fund.

[public]It would be based on Blue Origin's Blue Ring Satellite Platform supplemented by a yet unclarified small number of deployable UHF relay satellites that would enable it to provide wide-area coverage. It is envisioned by Blue Origin to be operational by 2028.

[public]On August 12, 2025, Blue Origin announced a proposed Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) mission that would fulfill NASA's new requirements of an orbiter that can be dually-used for both a Mars Sample Return mission and future crewed Mars missions.

[public]The project includes an uncrewed test mission followed by a crewed Moon landing in 2029. The contract value is $3. 4 billion.

[public]On May 19, 2023, NASA contracted the company to develop, test and deploy its Blue Moon landing system for the agency's Artemis V mission, which explores the Moon and prepares future crewed missions to Mars.

[public]As with their first bid, the company is leading another team called the "National Team" which includes Draper, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Astrobotic, Honeybee Robotics and Blue Origin.

[public]The announcement fell within NASA's deadline for Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) proposals.

[public]The company then announced on December 6, 2022, that it had submitted a second bid via the NASA Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) competition to fund and develop a second lunar lander capable for transporting astronauts to and from the lunar surface.

[public](SpaceX) to develop, test and build their version of the Human Landing System (HLS) for Artemis missions 2 (II), 3 (III) and 4 (IV). In early 2021, the company received over $275 million from NASA for lunar lander projects and sub-orbital research flights.

[public]However, the Blue Origin led team lost their first bid to work for NASA's Artemis program and on April 16, 2021, NASA officially selected the Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

[public]On April 30, 2020, the company and its partners won a $579 million contract to start developing and testing an integrated Human Landing System (HLS) for the Artemis program to return humans to the Moon.

[public]The Blue Origin led team called the "National Team" included, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper.

[public]The company placed their first bid via the NASA Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) competition to fund and develop a lunar lander capable of transporting astronauts to and from the lunar surface.

[public]NASA selected the SpaceX proposal in late 2013 and signed a 20-year lease contract for Launch Pad 39A to SpaceX in April 2014.

[public]"The [solicitation] document merely [asked] bidders to explain their reasons for selecting one approach instead of the other and how they would manage the facility".

[public]General Accounting Office (GAO) denied the companies protest and sided with NASA, which argued that the solicitation contained no preference on the use of the facility as either multi-use or single-use.

[public]SpaceX said that they would be willing to support a multi-user arrangement for pad 39A. In December 2013, the U. S.

[public]NASA had originally planned to complete the bid award and have the pad transferred by October 1, 2013, but the protest delayed a decision until the U. S. General Accounting Office (GAO) reached a decision on the protest.

[public]General Accounting Office (GAO) "over what it says is a plan by NASA to award an exclusive commercial lease to SpaceX for use of mothballed space shuttle launch pad 39A".

[public]In September 2013 – before completion of the bid period, and before any public announcement by NASA of the results of the process – Florida Today reported that the company had filed a protest with the U. S.

[public]The company completed work for NASA on several small development contracts, receiving total funding of $25. 7 million by 2013.

[public]One potential shared user in the companies proposed plan was United Launch Alliance (ULA). Commercial use of the LC39A launch complex was awarded to SpaceX, which submitted a bid for exclusive use of the launch complex to support their crewed missions.

[public]The companies bid was for shared and non-exclusive use of the LC39A complex such that the launchpad was to have been able to interface with multiple vehicles, and costs for using the launch pad were to have been shared across multiple companies over the term of the lease.

[public]The company had a failed attempt to lease a different part of the Space Coast, when they submitted a bid in 2013 to lease Launch Complex 39A (LC39A) at the Kennedy Space Center – on land to the north of, and adjacent to, Cape Canaveral AFS – following NASA's decision to lease the unused complex out as part of a bid to reduce annual operation and maintenance costs.

[public]The company did not submit a proposal for CCiCap, but reportedly continued work on its development program with private funding.

[public]In 2012, NASA's Commercial Crew Program released its follow-on CCiCap solicitation for the development of crew delivery to ISS by 2017.

[public]Milestones included (1) performing a Mission Concept Review (MCR) and System Requirements Review (SRR) on the orbital Space Vehicle, which utilizes a bionic shape to optimize its launch profile and atmospheric reentry, (2) further maturing the pusher escape system, including ground and flight tests, and (3) accelerating development of its BE-3 LOX/LH2 440 kN (100,000 lbf) engine through full-scale thrust chamber testing.

[public]In April 2011, The company received a commitment from NASA for $22 million of funding under the CCDev phase 2 program.

[public]This was later revealed to be a part of a larger system, designed for a bionic capsule, that would be launched atop an Atlas V rocket. On November 8, 2010, it was announced that the company had completed all milestones under its CCDev Space Act Agreement.

[public]NASA co-funded risk-mitigation activities related to ground testing of (1) an innovative 'pusher' escape system, that lowers cost by being reusable and enhances safety by avoiding the jettison event of a traditional 'tractor' Launch Escape System, and (2) an innovative composite pressure vessel cabin that both reduces weight and increases safety of astronauts.

[public]7 million in funding by NASA in 2009 via a Space Act Agreement under the first Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program for development of concepts and technologies to support future human spaceflight operations.

[public]For list of flights performed after 1 January 2025 see the articles of New Glenn and New Shepard where they are listed. In the chart below, ♺ means "Flight Proven Booster".

[public]The system would involve a constellation of over 5,000 space vehicles in low Earth orbit (LEO) and 128 free-space optical communication satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO) with multiple terabit per second interlink, providing 144 gigabit per second data rates on the ground via radio frequency link from LEO.

[public]He also mentioned that the company is building a novel approach to extract outer space's vast resources. === TeraWave === The company announced a communications satellite system called TeraWave in January, 2026.

[public]" Gary Lai, chief architect of the New Shepard rocket said during the pathfinder awards at the Seattle Museum of Flight that [The company] "aims to be the first company that harvests natural resources from the Moon to use here on Earth".

[public]This process also produces oxygen as a useful byproduct for propulsion and life support.

[public]Based on a process called molten regolith electrolysis, the breakthrough would bootstrap unlimited electricity and power transmission cables anywhere on the surface of the Moon.

[public]The company's website states that "Blue Alchemist is a proposed end-to-end, scalable, autonomous, and commercial solution that produces solar cells from lunar regolith, which is the dust and crushed rock abundant on the surface of the Moon.

[public]Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a long range nuclear propulsion system called the Power Adjusted Demonstration Mars Engine, or PADME.

[public]In partnership with Blue Origin, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy, GE Research, Framatome and Materion, USNC-Tech won a $5 million contract from NASA and the U. S.

[public]The company was awarded $2. 9 million to develop spacecraft component designs.

[public]The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Blue Origin contracts to fund and build nuclear spacecraft under the agency's Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations program or DRACO program.

[public]Nuclear fission concepts that can power both life support and propulsion systems could greatly reduce the cost and flight time during space exploration.

[public]One benefit to using nuclear fission as a propellent for spacecraft is that nuclear-based systems can have less mass than solar cells which means a spacecraft could be smaller while using the same amount of energy more efficiently.

[public]In 2024 NASA increased funding for Orbital Reef by $42 million, bringing the total award to $172 million.

[public]It will reportedly be designed to accept docking from almost every spacecraft in operation, such as SpaceX Dragon 2, Soyuz (spacecraft), Dream Chaser, and Boeing Starliner. The initial modules will be: Life, Node, Core, and Research Modules.

[public]Orbital Reef's design will be modular in nature, to provide the greatest amount of customization and compatibility.

[public]The project is envisioned as an expandable business park, with Boeing's Starliner and Sierra Space's Dream Chaser transporting passengers to and from low Earth orbit (LEO) for tourism, research and in-space manufacturing projects.

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