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aerospace industry

Blue Origin

Headquarters: Washington
Founded: 2000
Employees: 3,501

Official website

Photo: N2e · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

34,922

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Blue Origin is

Full article ↗

Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. is a private American space technology company headquartered in Kent, Washington. The company operates the suborbital New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles, including United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur. It is also working on the Blue Moon human lunar lander for NASA's Artemis program, the Blue Ring spacecraft platform, and the Orbital Reef space station in partnership with other organizations.

Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin initially operated with a very low profile, funded by Bezos's private investments. In 2015, the company achieved a significant milestone with the first uncrewed launch and landing of the New Shepard and announced plans for New Glenn. In 2021, New Shepard first flew crewed, with Bezos himself on board. Another key achievement came in January 2023 when the company delivered its first BE-4 rocket engine to United Launch Alliance. Despite these milestones, Blue Origin has faced criticism for its perceived slow progress, particularly when compared to SpaceX. Addressing these challenges, the company underwent a leadership change in September 2023, appointing Dave Limp as CEO to succeed Bob Smith.

Origin

Who founded it

Blue Origin was founded in 2000 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Jeff Bezos

1964

American business magnate (born 1964)

Photo: Seattle City Council from Seattle · CC BY 2.0 · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: aerospace industry
Legal form: private limited company
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Washington
Formed in: —
Founded: 2000
Dissolved: —
Employees: 3,501
Head office coordinates: 47.5000, -120.5000

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 2
Average vessel age: 22.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2004
Newest vessel on record: 2004
Largest vessel by tonnage: 21,104
Average tonnage: 17,461
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Blue Origin. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Damen Group1

Kraljevica Shipyard1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record · Barge

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Landing Platform Vessel #1	9998676	Barge	United States	—	13,818	12,000	115.8 m	Damen Group

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Blue Origin compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 2 vessels attributed to it here, Blue Origin is the 341st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Blue Origin ranks 33rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 2000, Blue Origin is 26 years old. This directory holds 146 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.