Blue Origin ranks 10 on the Space 100 with a score of 85; United Launch Alliance ranks 38 with 77. Blue Origin is ahead on deployment, technology and firepower. Level on production, commercials, progress, positioning and leverage. Blue Origin is based in Kent, United States, United Launch Alliance in Centennial, United States. Blue Origin: Established. United Launch Alliance: Established. Blue Origin is named in 356 signals and United Launch Alliance in 137.
Blue Origin develops and operates the New Glenn heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle, with booster recovery, and is expanding its launch infrastructure.
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Blue Origin is a US launch and space company (Bezos-owned, ~$130B valuation after its first external raise of ~$10B in July 2026) whose New Glenn has flown three times, achieving first booster reuse in April 2026, though a May 2026 static-fire explosion destroyed a booster and severely damaged its only New Glenn pad. It holds a $3.4B NASA HLS lunar-lander award (Blue Moon Mk1 and Mk2, plus two crewed LTV delivery missions at $234M each), sells BE-4 engines to ULA, has an Amazon Kuiper launch backlog, and unveiled the Quartz global ground network (August 2026). Its brutal 2026 (booster reuse achieved and pad destroyed within six weeks) leaves a return-to-flight targeted within the year; revenue is undisclosed (estimated 100-500m+).
356 signals name Blue Origin.
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United Launch Alliance provides orbital launch services on Atlas V and Vulcan rockets for U.S. national-security, NASA, commercial and satellite-constellation customers.
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United Launch Alliance (a Boeing-Lockheed JV) is targeting 18-22 launches in 2026 (versus 6 in 2025, a chronic cadence shortfall) as it ramps its NSSL-certified Vulcan alongside remaining Atlas 5 flights, with ~6 Vulcans in storage and doubled Cape processing capacity. It is structurally sold out for years on a 26-mission NSSL slate, 38 Vulcan launches for Amazon Leo (the largest commercial launch agreement), and Starliner and ViaSat-3 missions, but squeezed between SpaceX economics and Blue Origin ambitions. The current revenue figure is dated (~$1.3-1.5B class, no filing).
137 signals name United Launch Alliance.
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Blue Origin ranks 10 on the Space 100 with a score of 85; United Launch Alliance ranks 38 with 77. Blue Origin is ahead on deployment, technology and firepower. Level on production, commercials, progress, positioning and leverage. Blue Origin is based in Kent, United States, United Launch Alliance in Centennial, United States. Blue Origin: Established. United Launch Alliance: Established. Blue Origin is named in 356 signals and United Launch Alliance in 137.
Blue Origin ranks 10 on the Space 100 with a score of 85; United Launch Alliance ranks 38 with 77. Blue Origin is ahead on deployment, technology and firepower. Level on production, commercials, progress, positioning and leverage. Blue Origin is based in Kent, United States, United Launch Alliance in Centennial, United States. Blue Origin: Established. United Launch Alliance: Established. Blue Origin is named in 356 signals and United Launch Alliance in 137. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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