Blue Origin
Private aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company founded by Jeff Bezos.
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How Blue Origin compares
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SpaceX
Direct rival
Elon Musk's private space company
Blue Origin beat SpaceX for NASA's Mars comms contract and was second to prove rocket reusability, though it has had rockets blow up on the pad.
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Blue Origin beat SpaceX for NASA's Mars comms contract and was second to prove rocket reusability, though it has had rockets blow up on the pad.
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"NASA chose Blue Origin to build the telecommunications relay network on Mars — the comm infrastructure that will connect future Mars missions back to Earth."
Selected over SpaceX despite SpaceX operating the largest space-based laser-linked comm network
"The news is that Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the first time. The valuation is expected to be $130 billion."
Compared to SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and AST SpaceMobile as private space companies.
"Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the first time. The valuation is expected to be $130 billion. It's the second company in the world to bring a rocket to orbit, land it successfully, prove reusability."
Compared to SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and AST SpaceMobile
"Blue Origin is in the news for accidentally exploding a heavy launch rocket on its pad"
Contrasted with SpaceX's success with Starship
"you are helping Blue Origin and Rocket Lab continue to uh chop down the wood that they need to do to get to space regularly"
Competing with SpaceX
Virgin Galactic
Direct rival
suborbital space tourism company
Both were studied as models for space reservation programs. Peter sees Blue Origin as an alternative for suborbital flight but is more drawn to moon landings.
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Both were studied as models for space reservation programs. Peter sees Blue Origin as an alternative for suborbital flight but is more drawn to moon landings.
"We studied Virgin Galactic, we studied Blue Origin, we also studied ones that didn't work so well."
Studied alongside Virgin Galactic when designing GRU Space's deposit/reservation model
"Maybe I have to go on Blue Origin, but I'm far more interested in actually landing on the moon."
Alternative to Virgin Galactic for suborbital flight
What creators say
"Artemis 3 will launch on SLS into low Earth orbit and rendezvous with lander test vehicles from Blue Origin and SpaceX in what will be a remarkable display of the three most powerful rockets and spacecraft in the world."
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"We're not the only game in town. There's SpaceX and Blue Origin and Rocket Lab."
"There's SpaceX and Blue Origin and Rocket Lab. How do you attract the talent and retain it?"
"NASA chose Blue Origin to build the telecommunications relay network on Mars — the comm infrastructure that will connect future Mars missions back to Earth."
More from Peter Diamandis →+3 more mentions from Peter
"Maybe I have to go on Blue Origin, but I'm far more interested in actually landing on the moon."
"Are they going to be dependent on Blue Origin? Those are the two major suppliers."
"The news is that Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the first time. The valuation is expected to be $130 billion."
More from John Coogan →+2 more mentions from John
"Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the first time. The valuation is expected to be $130 billion. It's the second company in the world to br..."
"The billionaire founder of Amazon.com and don't forget Blue Origin is co-leading a new AI business called Prometheus."
"We studied Virgin Galactic, we studied Blue Origin, we also studied ones that didn't work so well."
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"you are helping Blue Origin and Rocket Lab continue to uh chop down the wood that they need to do to get to space regularly"
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"Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just blew up at LC36 while attempting to static fire ahead of NG4"
"Blue Origin rocket stumbles on first commercial mission"
"Blue Origin I think it was today or yesterday announced they're going to be doing their first external fundraising which speaks to I think them taking themselves much more seriously as a company"
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"Bezos has Blue Origin. Yeah."
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"we're actually going to practice docking with either a Starship lunar lander or the Blue Origin lunar lander"
More from This Week in Startups →"The small guys aren't going to launch it, but Relativity Space and Blue Origin and SpaceX."
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"Blue Origin is in the news for accidentally exploding a heavy launch rocket on its pad"
"Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just blew up at LC landing uh LC36 while attempting to static fire ahead of NG4."
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