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Dossier // 01-BO-PRG
A high-density technical record of Blue Origin's orbital and suborbital operations. Merging flight manifest data with Sam.gov procurement signals and verified engineering milestones.
This is the program-level Blue Origin dossier. It connects New Shepard, New Glenn, Blue Moon, Blue Ring, vehicles, engines, flight manifests, public contract signals, official media, and exact launch records.
Use this page for program context and cross-record navigation. Mission hubs own mission-family context, traveler and flight indexes own browsable directories, and exact launch records own schedule, status, payload, pad, and source details.
The hub combines the public launch cache, Launch Library 2 mission and manifest records, official Blue Origin media, government procurement records, USASpending/SAM.gov signals, and curated timeline evidence.
Last signal: . High-confidence timeline evidence currently accounts for 90% of tracked timeline events.
This page is a program workbench, not a single launch schedule page. It is meant for comparing program status, manifests, procurement, vehicles, engines, media evidence, and official timeline signals.
New Shepard status, New Glenn cadence, lunar systems, and in-space logistics each have more specific hubs when a user needs mission-family detail.
New Shepard Snapshot
Official totals, latest mission, and current launch posture.
Flights Tracked
38
New Shepard missions in feed
Humans Flown
98
92 unique individuals
Last Flight
NS-38Upcoming Flights
0
Listed in current launch feed
Program Status
Paused
Flights are paused for no less than two years while Blue Origin prioritizes orbital operations.
Status source: Blue Origin (January 30, 2026)
Crew and payloads are rendered by verified flight roster when official seat indexes are unavailable. Manifests start at the earliest flight and cycle infinitely.
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Status: Success
Capsule
New Shepard | NS-1
Architectural overview of propulsion systems and space vehicles.
Blue Origin's lunar lander family and mission architecture for Artemis and lunar cargo or crewed surface logistics campaigns.
Blue Origin's in-space logistics and mobility platform for long-duration operations, hosting, transportation, and mission services.
Blue Origin's heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle program supporting commercial, civil, and national security mission classes.
Blue Origin's reusable suborbital system for human spaceflight and research payloads, with vertically landed booster operations.
BE-3PM powers New Shepard with reusable vertical-launch and landing mission profiles for suborbital flight.
BE-3U is the vacuum-optimized BE-3 derivative used for upper-stage mission architecture planning.
BE-4 is Blue Origin's methane-oxygen staged-combustion engine family for heavy-lift launch integration.
BE-7 is the lunar landing engine program for Blue Moon, designed for precision descent and throttle control.
Linked SAM.gov contract awards, SAM.gov opportunities, and USASpending financial records.
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Relevant Blue Origin awards and notices that are in scope for the hub but still awaiting an exact story join.
Relevant SAM.gov leads will appear here when records are in scope for Blue Origin but not yet safely attached to an exact contract story.
Unified stream of technical milestones and official social intelligence.
Program-level fallback event keeps timeline continuity when feed-derived events are sparse.
Tracked image and video archive supporting program evidence.
Launch cache
NASA
SpaceNews
Arstechnica
NASASpaceflight
SpaceNews
Spaceflight Now
Arstechnica
SpaceNews
Arstechnica
NASASpaceflight
NASASpaceflight
General John Hyten, Executive Director of Club for the Future, joins the Ascending Node to talk about a career spent leading at the highest levels of national security and defense, from serving as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the weight of responsibility that comes with one of the most demanding roles in the U.S. military. He digs into the camaraderie forged along the way, including a lighter look back at letting host Tory Bruno take the heat in meetings over engine decisions, and how that friendship has endured. He also shares what's become one of the most rewarding chapters of his career: working with kids through Club for the Future to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers. It's a conversation spanning decades of command, connection, and what it means to shape the future of space for those who will inherit it.
Steve Squyres discusses how the VIPER rover will target the Moon's south pole in late 2027 on a 100-day mission to hunt for water ice. If it succeeds, the data it sends back could determine where future astronauts land, live, and even fuel their ships.
Our path forward builds on years of infrastructure development at Launch Complex 36. This approach leverages existing work while advancing our goal of full interchangeability between launch pads, giving us greater operational flexibility for the future.
Mars rovers AND underwater missions? Steve Squyres has done it all. In this bonus clip, the Mars Exploration Rover principal investigator, and Chief Scientist at Blue, shares what it was really like to live beneath the ocean as a NASA aquanaut on Project NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations).
Blue Origin Chief Scientist Steve Squyres joins the Ascending Node to talk about a career spent pushing the boundaries of Mars exploration, from serving as principal investigator for the scientific payloads on the iconic Spirit and Opportunity rovers to his early mentorship under Carl Sagan. He digs into how the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) will support science happening on the Martian surface, and how Blue Ring could help identify and characterize materials on asteroids. It's a conversation spanning decades of curiosity, discovery, and what's next for planetary exploration.
Test video of a BE-7 development engine performing a record 2,500-second hotfire test at our atmospheric test stand in West Texas.
Tory recalls a moment in his career at China Lake where an event that seemed like a failure led to success.
Welcome to Ascending Node. Our premiere episode features an in-depth conversation between Tory Bruno and Tabitha Lipkin, exploring leadership, national security strategy, and the evolution of commercial spaceflight.