# Blue Origin: space company profile

> Blue Origin: Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, develops reusable launch vehicles and human spaceflight systems as a privately held aerospace manufacturer.

- Canonical page: https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/blue-origin
- This Markdown version: https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/blue-origin.md
- Data as of: profile last verified 2026-09-04
- How the numbers are made: https://spacenexus.us/methodology#space-score

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## Profile facts

- Name: Blue Origin
- What it does: Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, develops reusable launch vehicles and human spaceflight systems as a privately held aerospace manufacturer. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: launch
- Headquarters: Kent, Washington, US
- Founded: 2000
- Chief executive: Dave Limp
- Status: active
- Ownership: private
- Publicly traded: no
- Website: [https://www.blueorigin.com](https://www.blueorigin.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-09-04

## Funding

- Raised privately: No private round on record (No private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)
- Valuation on the profile: $140.00B

No funding round recorded on this profile.

- Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security.

## Space Score

- Score 566 of 1000, tier Emerging.
- Rank 32 of 94 ranked companies (likely between 9 and 60 given the pillars we have not measured).
- 5 of 10 inputs measured, medium confidence, 55% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-20 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (30% of this total): not measured; counted at the roster median, 45; not measured: Headcount, Market value, Reported revenue
- Government space demand (20% of this total): 96 of 100
- Capital access (15% of this total): not measured; counted at the roster median, 50; not measured: Capital raised (24 months)
- Momentum (15% of this total): 66 of 100; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (20% of this total): 33 of 100
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=blue-origin#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
- The Space Score ranks companies relative to each other on public data we hold. It describes; it does not rate, forecast or recommend. It is not a credit rating and not investment advice.

## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-08-31 | NASA | PROVIDE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, INTEGRATION, LAUNCH, AND ON ORBIT, CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATIONS IN SUPPORT OF A MARS SAMPLE RETURN (MSR) MISSION AND FUTURE MARS SURFACE, ORBITAL, AND HUMAN EXPLORATION MISS… | $660.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC26C0032_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2026-05-28 | DoD | PHASE 3 LANE 1 LAUNCH SERVICE TASK ORDER (LSTO) FOR NTO-4 | $125.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881126FB016_9700_FA881124DB002_9700) |
| 2026-05-26 | NASA | COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) CONTRACT TASK ORDER CX-2A | $32.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026F7013_8000_80JSC020D0010_8000) |
| 2026-05-26 | NASA | COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) CONTRACT TASK ORDER CX-2B | $32.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026F7015_8000_80JSC020D0010_8000) |
| 2026-04-02 | DoD | NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH PHASE 3 LANE 2 | $2.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881126FB012_9700_FA881125DB005_9700) |
| 2025-10-06 | DoD | THIS CONTRACT IS FOR THE GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT INTO A SPACE VEHICLE PROCESSING FACILITY ON CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION. THIS AWARD IS THE RESULT OF THE NSSL SPACE VEHICLE PROCESSING COMMERCIAL… | $78.3M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA880226C0002_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2025-09-16 | NASA | COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) CONTRACT TASK ORDER CS-7 | $55.1M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC025F7071_8000_80JSC020D0010_8000) |
| 2025-07-16 | NASA | CX-1 BLUE ORIGIN MID-SIZED LANDER STUDY BASE AWARD | $590K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC025F7058_8000_80JSC020D0010_8000) |
| 2025-07-01 | NASA | FLIGHT PROVIDER SHALL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRIMARY DECELERATOR SYSTEM SAFETY CASE FOR THE NASA SUB-ORBITAL TEAM. | $500K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80AFRC25FA034_8000_80AFRC25DA001_8000) |
| 2025-05-29 | NASA | INTEGRATION AND REFLIGHT OF THE T0220 MICROGRAVITY INVESTIGATION FOR THIN FILM HYDROPONICS(LILYPOND) IN REDUCED GRAVITY WITH SPACE ENVIRONMENT. | $315K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80AFRC25FA033_8000_80AFRC25DA001_8000) |
| 2025-05-06 | NASA | INTEGRATION AND REFLIGHT OF THE T0321 DEMONSTRATION OF MULTIPHASE MICROFLUIDICS FOR CHEMICAL ANALYSIS SYSTEMS (FORGE) REDUCED GRAVITY WITH SPACE ENVIRONMENT. | $307K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80AFRC25FA029_8000_80AFRC25DA001_8000) |
| 2025-04-30 | NASA | THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DEVELOP AND ASSESS A VARIETY OF END-TO-END LOGISTICS AND MOBILITY ARCHITECTURES. THE ASSESSMENTS WILL INCLUDE FIGURES OF MERIT THAT NASA CAN USE FOR SHAPING BUDGETS… | $4.4M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80HQTR25CA003_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2025-04-14 | DoD | SEE ATTACHMENT 1, PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS) | $181.7M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881125FB011_9700_FA881125DB005_9700) |
| 2024-11-04 | NASA | UNIQUE VEHICLE CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT AND FUTURE SPACE TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION STUDY DEMONSTRATING ALIGNMENT WITH FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND GOALS. INCLUDES PAYLOAD SUITABILITY AND THE… | not recorded | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80AFRC25FA003_8000_80AFRC25DA001_8000) |
| 2024-07-24 | NASA | COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) TASK ORDER CT-3 | $18.7M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC024F0068_8000_80JSC020D0010_8000) |

## Operations

- Open roles on the SpaceNexus jobs board: 1823

## Sources

- [SpaceNexus company database](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles): profile facts, with the verification date above
- Each funding round's cited source: SEC filings, company announcements and press reports, linked per round
- Federal award records: contract awards

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