Blue Origin facilities

The private aerospace company Blue Origin has a number of development, manufacturing, and test facilities in four US states: Washington, Texas, Florida, and Alabama.

[2] The company is headquartered on 11 hectares (26 acres) of industrial land in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where its research and development is located.

[9] By March 2018, Blue's construction at LC-36 was lagging, but the company stated they did not think it would delay achieving the anticipated 2020 initial launch of New Glenn.

CEO Bob Smith, confirmed Stena Freighter would be used as the landing platform vessel for first-stage boosters.

[15] Much like numerous other American rockets, Blue Origin has also set out to have New Glenn do polar launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base at Point Arguello, California.

Current launch license and experimental permits from the US government Federal Aviation Administration authorize flights of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital system.

[20] In addition to the suborbital launch pads, the West Texas site includes a number of rocket engine test stands.