Blue Origin facilities
The
.Blue Origin began in 2000 with only a
Development facility and headquarters
The company is headquartered on 11 hectares (26 acres) of industrial land in
Florida facilities
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In September 2015, Blue Origin leased
The Blue Origin orbital launch site will be situated on a total of 306 acres of leased land assembled from former Launch Complexes 11, 36A, and 36B. The land parcel will be used to build a
In addition, the manufacturing of "large elements, such as first stages, second stages, payload fairings, etc." will occur at the Blue Origin launch vehicle factory on Space Commerce Parkway in nearby Exploration Park, near the entrance to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Merritt Island.[13]
Landing platform ship
In October 2018, Stena Freighter, 182 meter cargo-ship purchased from ferry operator
Launch Site One suborbital launch and engine test site
Blue Origin has a suborbital launch facility known as
Included are three test cells just for testing the methalox BE-4 engine alone: two full test cells that can support full-thrust and full-duration burns, as well as one that supports short-duration, high-pressure
Alabama engine manufacturing facility
In June 2016, Blue Origin president
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construction at LC-36. The Air Force ... limits work that can be done on "critical days" around launches, to avoid construction work that could cause mishaps—broken pipelines or severed cables—that would delay those launches. "Part of building is that you've actually got to be able to put a shovel into the ground", Henderson said. "On a critical day at Cape Canaveral you cannot break the surface of the ground". The number of critical days has been growing, in part because of increased launch activity. In 10 of the previous 12 months, he said, more than half of the work days were deemed critical days. "It's nearly impossible to build a project under those kinds of constraints".
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