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NASA revives VIPER, awards Blue Origin $190M to deliver rover to Moon south pole in 2027

NASA revived the canceled VIPER mission, awarding Blue Origin a $190 million task order to deliver the rover to the Moon's south pole aboard the Blue Moon Mark 1 lander in late 2027. VIPER will map water ice and volatiles to help enable a sustainable Artemis lunar presence.

2025-09-19T13:32:50.812454-07:00

Washington Post

Blue Origin's First All-Female Crew Completes New Shepard Suborbital Flight

2025-04-14T06:44:05.736896-07:00

Space.com

Blue Origin delays second New Glenn launch to Sept. 29, will carry NASA Mars probes

2025-08-15T14:08:01.192664-07:00

Space.com

Blue Origin unveils lunar architecture with crewed landers and orbital tankers

2025-06-04T07:01:36.935797-07:00

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Aviation Week

Bezos predicts gigawatt‑scale orbital data centers in coming decades Jeff Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin, said he foresees gigawatt‑scale data centers orbiting Earth in the coming decades. His forecast underlines a potential shift toward hosting large compute and storage facilities in orbit that could reshape commercial space activity.

2025-10-06T01:32:19.955547-07:00

Bezos predicts gigawatt‑scale orbital data centers in coming decades

Fortune

Sara Sabry: Blue Origin training taught me to embrace discomfort Sara Sabry, a millennial astronaut, says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable and credits Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin training with teaching her to push through long, 13‑hour workdays. She describes using discomfort as a deliberate mental tool that helped her advance in spaceflight preparation.

2025-10-04T05:17:06.971370-07:00

Sara Sabry: Blue Origin training taught me to embrace discomfort

newswire.com

Utah State researcher Aaron Newman to fly on Blue Origin New Shepard in USU–Uplift collaboration Utah State University announced researcher Aaron Newman will fly on Blue Origin’s upcoming crewed New Shepard suborbital mission as part of a USU–Uplift Aerospace collaboration, marking the university’s direct participation in commercial suborbital human spaceflight and hands‑on research aboard New Shepard.

2025-10-03T23:00:12.826829-07:00

Utah State researcher Aaron Newman to fly on Blue Origin New Shepard in USU–Uplift collaboration

CNBC

NASA allows Artemis work with SpaceX and Blue Origin to continue during government shutdown NASA has granted an exception allowing agency personnel and contractors supporting Artemis missions with SpaceX and Blue Origin to continue work through the current government shutdown. The decision preserves integration, testing and launch preparations tied to upcoming Artemis milestones despite a lapse in appropriations.

2025-10-01T13:16:43.528434-07:00

NASA allows Artemis work with SpaceX and Blue Origin to continue during government shutdown

GeekWire

Blue Origin and Luxembourg launch Project Oasis — Oasis‑1 to map lunar water ice, helium‑3 and radionuclides Blue Origin and Luxembourg partners announced Project Oasis, a multi‑phase campaign to identify and exploit lunar resources. Oasis‑1, the first mission, will produce the most detailed orbital and ground maps yet of lunar water ice, helium‑3 and radionuclides, and feed downstream in‑situ resource‑utilization efforts.

2025-09-30T19:32:45.955048-07:00

Blue Origin and Luxembourg launch Project Oasis — Oasis‑1 to map lunar water ice, helium‑3 and radionuclides

orlandosentinel.com

Blue Origin opens Lunar Plant 1 and New Glenn rocket factory on Florida Space Coast Blue Origin opened Lunar Plant 1 at its Florida Space Coast complex to manufacture Blue Moon Mark 2 lunar landers for NASA's Artemis program, and unveiled a massive New Glenn rocket factory in Brevard County where New Glenn vehicles are moving down the production line toward upcoming launches.

2025-09-27T08:36:17.187015-07:00

Blue Origin opens Lunar Plant 1 and New Glenn rocket factory on Florida Space Coast

Space.com

Blue Origin targets mid‑October New Glenn launch for NASA’s twin Mars probes; first‑stage hot‑fire expected next month Blue Origin is targeting a mid‑October launch of its New Glenn rocket to carry NASA’s twin Mars probes, and expects to conduct a static hot‑fire of the vehicle’s first stage early next month. The test is a key pre‑launch milestone ahead of the planned interplanetary mission.

2025-09-26T12:04:12.974090-07:00

Blue Origin targets mid‑October New Glenn launch for NASA’s twin Mars probes; first‑stage hot‑fire expected next month

Ars Technica

Amazon schedules back-to-back Project Kuiper launches as Blue Origin slips New Glenn's second flight Amazon plans two Project Kuiper broadband-satellite launches just days apart, compressing its deployment cadence and accelerating constellation buildout. The moves come as Blue Origin’s New Glenn second flight slips, a timing shift that could affect heavy‑lift availability and payload manifests for Kuiper and other customers.

2025-09-26T06:31:46.206369-07:00

Amazon schedules back-to-back Project Kuiper launches as Blue Origin slips New Glenn's second flight

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