Blue Origin

Blue Origin Company Report

1. Blue Origin
Colin Sullivan
uniquename: colinmi

2. Problem
1.Space Tourism 2. Space Travel is Extremely Expensive

3. Product #1: New Shepard

4. Rocket

5. Capsule

6. Product #2: New Glenn

7. Finances
●Does not generate profit
●Does not really generate any revenue
●Receives small awards from NASA ($3.7 million in 2010
and $22 million in 2011)

8. Business Model
●“My business model right now
... is I sell about $1 billion of
Amazon stock a year and I use
it to invest in Blue Origin.” - Jeff
Bezos
●Plans on selling trips to space
for $300,000

9. History
2000 Company founded
2015
Unmanned test flights of New
Shepard begin
November 23, 2015
New Shepard booster
successfully lands after climbing
to 330,000 feet
2016 New Glenn Rocket Announced
2018 Crew test flights are planned

10. Secret Sauce
Large windows Massive capsule for zero
gravity and experiments

11. Competition
Virgin Galactic SpaceX

12. Competition
Blue Origin SpaceX Virgin Galactic
Reusable
Space Crafts

Space Tourism
Zero Gravity
Experience

Conduct
Experiments

13. Prediction: It Will Succeed
●Few competitors
●Unique experience
●Jeff Bezos has enough money
to keep the company running
for a long time

14. Problems
Reusable rockets are extremely difficult to make Safety

15. Sources
●https://www.blueorigin.com/new-shepard
●http://spacenews.com/41299bezos-investment-in-blue-origin-exceeds-500-million/
●https://www.investors.com/news/technology/amazons-bezos-fuels-blue-origin-to-successful-space-launch/
●https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/science/blue-origin-rocket-jeff-bezos-amazon-stock.html
●https://www.blueorigin.com/
●http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/04/technology/billionaire-space-race/index.html
●http://wonderfulengineering.com/blue-origins-spacecraft-first-flight/
●https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-vs-blue-origin-titans-new-space/
●https://www.blueorigin.com/new-glenn
●https://qz.com/1174480/blue-origins-new-shepard-and-virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-put-science-in-space-for-t
hree-minutes-and-thats-a-game-changer/
●https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/rocketeer-jeff-bezos-winner-smithsonians-technology-ingenuity-
award-180961119/
●https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/blue-origin-2020-debut-new-glenn-rocket/
●https://www.space.com/39691-window-sizes-spacecraft-blue-origin-virgin-galactic.html