Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos's rocket company — builder of the New Glenn launcher and a lunar-lander contractor for NASA.
Coverage of Blue Origin is holding steady : 6 signals on the latest tracked day, up 20% from its three-week baseline of 5, across 6 domains (up from 3 a week ago). That makes it the #124 most-covered of the 337 concerns we track.
What’s changed
- Rocket Lab protests NASA's decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract · Space.com · 2026-09-11
- NASA Taps Blue Origin for Mars Communications Network · Payload Space · 2026-09-06
- Blue Origin expands test and launch sites across the Cape · NASASpaceflight · 2026-09-04
- Blue Origin wins $700 million contract to build NASA's next Mars orbiter · Space.com · 2026-09-02
- Blue Origin Wins Award for NASA’s Mars Telecommunications Network · Via Satellite · 2026-09-02
- NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider · NASA · 2026-09-01
What the reporting says
Across 159 tracked stories from 62 outlets, reporting on Blue Origin most often describes launches or releases (40), meetings or visits (6), regulatory approvals (4), award (4), public statements (3), funding rounds (1).
It shows up alongside NASA (74), SpaceX (73 — meetings or visits ×2), Artemis (40 — meetings or visits ×2), Earth (41), Cape Canaveral (18), Orion (17), Falcon (16), Space Force (24).
Two steps out: Kennedy Space Center (through NASA, 74 shared stories on the weaker link); Mars (through NASA, 74 shared stories on the weaker link); Naics (through NASA, 74 shared stories on the weaker link); NASA Science (through NASA, 74 shared stories on the weaker link).
Tracked since May 18, with coverage on 88 separate days — concentrated in Aerospace Defense and Space Industry.