Blue Origin, LLC is an American commercial aerospace manufacturer, space launch provider, and defense contractor headquartered in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin operates as a privately held aerospace giant with an estimated $35.0 billion enterprise valuation. Generating over $1.5 billion in annual revenue under Chief Executive Officer Dave Limp, Blue Origin operates the orbital New Glenn rocket, builds BE-4 methalox rocket engines, flies the suborbital New Shepard space vehicle, and develops the Blue Moon human lunar lander for NASA's Artemis program.
Blue Origin operates a vertically integrated aerospace manufacturing, heavy-lift orbital launch services, propulsion engine supply, and lunar infrastructure business model funded by private capital and lucrative government and commercial launch contracts. Its commercial revenue engine spans four primary pillars: First, Commercial & National Security Launch Services (~45% of revenue), monetizing orbital payload launches on the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket for commercial satellite constellations (most notably Amazon's Project Kuiper) and US Space Force National Security Space Launch (NSSL) missions. Second, NASA Exploration & Human Landing System (HLS) Contracts (~32% of revenue), executing the $3.4 billion NASA Artemis contract to develop and operate the Blue Moon human lunar lander alongside CLPS robotic science missions. Third, Rocket Engine Commercial Supply (~15% of revenue), manufacturing and selling high-thrust BE-4 liquid oxygen/liquefied natural gas (methalox) rocket engines to United Launch Alliance (ULA) for the Vulcan Centaur rocket. Fourth, New Shepard Suborbital Spaceflight & Payloads (~8% of revenue), monetizing high-net-worth commercial astronaut space tourism seats and microgravity scientific research payloads.