Blue Origin designs and manufactures reusable rocket engines, launch vehicles, in-space systems, and lunar landers with the stated objective of enabling millions of people to live and work in space. The company operates under CEO Dave Limp from its U.S. headquarters, pursuing a long-term engineering roadmap focused on reducing the cost of space access and building permanent infrastructure in orbit and on the Moon.
The company's product portfolio spans three primary flight systems. New Shepard is a suborbital vehicle designed for research and commercial spaceflight missions. New Glenn is an orbital launch vehicle intended to provide heavy-lift capability to Earth orbit. Blue Moon is a lunar lander system developed to support surface operations on the Moon. These vehicles represent a step-by-step approach to building what the company describes as foundational space infrastructure rather than isolated launch capabilities.
Blue Origin's technical scope encompasses reusable rocket propulsion systems, launch vehicle design for both suborbital and orbital missions, in-space systems engineering, and lunar landing architecture. The company's engineering approach emphasizes cost reduction through reusability and aims to make space accessible beyond traditional government and astronaut constituencies - targeting entrepreneurs, researchers, and commercial operators. The stated mission frames all development work around a singular objective: to enable off-world heavy industry in order to preserve Earth's environment, positioning space infrastructure as a long-term solution to industrial sustainability constraints.