Blue Origin Texas, LLC

Blue Origin Texas, LLC, doing business as Blue Origin LLC, is a for-profit limited liability company and subsidiary of Blue Origin, specializing in suborbital spaceflight services and payload integration. Registered in SAM.gov since September 2015, the company is a manufacturer of goods and provides advanced aerospace technologies and services to federal government agencies. Located in Van Horn, Texas, Blue Origin Texas focuses on supporting technology demonstration, research, and development objectives through its New Shepard reusable launch system.

Through federal contract awards, Blue Origin Texas has consistently provided payload integration and suborbital spaceflight services primarily to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. The company's contract work encompasses a wide range of technology testing and demonstration activities, including integrating and flying payloads related to propulsion systems research, in-space manufacturing techniques, lunar gravity simulators, and educational student competition experiments. All of its federal contract awards have been competitively bid without specific set-aside designations. The contract work involves integrating various scientific and technological payloads aboard the New Shepard launch system, supporting technology maturation across different readiness levels for NASA and other government agencies.

Blue Origin Texas has engaged in federal grant sub-awards focused on biomedical and technological research. These grants include collaborative projects with institutions like Baylor College of Medicine and Montana State University. The grant work has centered on developing research capabilities for commercial spaceflight, including stakeholder assessments for biomedical data collection, conceptual operations development for payload integration, and scientific investigations such as evaluating microbial adaptation during suborbital flights. The grants aim to advance understanding of spaceflight health and technology development in collaboration with research institutions.

The company holds a significant Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center called the Flight Opportunities Program 4 Flight and Payload Integration Services. This $45 million multiple-award contract, running through February 2029, enables Blue Origin Texas to provide suborbital spaceflight services and payload integration across government agencies. The IDIQ supports technology demonstration and reduced gravity experiments, with individual task orders ranging from $25,000 to over $3.8 million. Task orders under this contract have consistently focused on integrating and flying various scientific and technological payloads, supporting NASA's broader technology development and research objectives.