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Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, develops reusable launch vehicles and human spaceflight systems as a privately held aerospace manufacturer.
ACTIVEBlue Origin is a private aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company developing reusable launch vehicles and human spaceflight systems, founded by Jeff Bezos.
Blue Origin is a private aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company developing reusable launch vehicles and human spaceflight systems, founded by Jeff Bezos.
Rank 32 of 94 ranked companies. With the pillars we have not measured for this company filled at the 10th and 90th percentiles of the companies we did measure, and every other company held at its published total, the rank is likely between 9 and 60.
5 of 10 inputs measured · Medium confidence · 55% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Headcount, Market value, Reported revenue
Not measured: Capital raised (24 months)
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-20 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO
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No private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Hiring
1823 open roles right now →
Latest government contract
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…
NASA · $660M · Aug 31, 2026
Raising now (not a closed round)
Raising $10B
(company says, 9 Oct 2026)
Suborbital reusable rocket and capsule for space tourism and research payloads, carrying up to six people above the Karman line. Blue Origin paused New Shepard flights in January 2026 for at least two years to focus on lunar work.
Its lunar missions in our catalogue of every Moon mission since 1958, with dates, outcomes and sources:
Blue Moon, a crew lander for Artemis · US vs China race to the Moon tracker
Stage, milestones, announced next steps and slips, funding and filings, every fact sourced:
Contracts, suppliers, launches and schedule for each program, every fact sourced:
Checking for a discussion…
7 dated public commitments by Blue Origin, with sources and outcomes on the Promise Ledger.
Compiled Oct 20, 2026 from 8 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
57 awards, $1.76B obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded Jul 6, 2016 to Aug 31, 2026; most from NASA (46 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 24, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Aug 31, 2026
Latest space award
$660.0M from NASA
PROVIDE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, INTEGRATION, LAUNCH, AND ON ORBIT, CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATIONS IN SUPPORT OF A MARS SAMPLE RETURN (MSR) MISSION...
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Aug 31, 2026
Open roles
1,823 open roles
30 days ago: 1,657 (Sep 21, 2026). 90 days ago: before our daily count began (Aug 13, 2026)
Roles on the company's own jobs board, read by our daily sync. Listings posted or paid for on SpaceNexus are not counted. Earlier daily counts include every listed role.
Source: Company jobs board (Workday)
Counted Oct 20, 2026
Launches flown as provider
14 since Nov 18, 2024
1 failed. Latest: New Glenn | BlueBird Block 2 #2
Our launch record starts Nov 18, 2024; earlier launches are not counted here. Every kind of launch in the feed counts, crewed, lunar and station missions included.
Source: Launch Library 2 launch record
Latest launch Apr 19, 2026
Satellites owned or operated
0 in orbit of 1 launched
Latest: Blue Ring Pathfinder
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as owner or operator. "In orbit" is GCAT status O. Counted under GCAT organisation codes BLOR, BLORCC, BLORH, BLORTX, BLOT. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jan 16, 2025
Satellites built
1 payload launched, 0 in orbit
Latest: Blue Ring Pathfinder
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as manufacturer. Counted under GCAT organisation codes BLOR, BLORCC, BLORH, BLORTX, BLOT. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jan 16, 2025
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
46 space awards, $1.36B obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Aug 31, 2026
Department of Defense
11 space awards, $400.7M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, May 28, 2026
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 20). Blue Origin: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/blue-origin
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Blue Origin: Company dossier." Data as of October 20, 2026. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/blue-origin.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_blueorigin_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Blue Origin}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/blue-origin}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/blue-origin},
urldate = {2026-10-20},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-20; each fact links its primary source}
}