Just asking out of curiosity and trying to understand how the timeline works. Not trying to complain or start anything, so please be kind 🙂
I was reading through the AIP email from May 2026 and wanted to make sure I'm understanding it correctly.
The way I read it:
This is where I'm confused. If the March 2027 AIP payout is for the 2026 performance year, wouldn't that mean we're no longer earning an AIP during 2027?
If so, why wouldn't the base-pay adjustment take effect sometime in 2027 instead of January 2028?
Am I misunderstanding how the AIP payout works, or does this effectively mean there's a one-year gap between the final AIP performance year and when the base-pay adjustment kicks in?
Another recent article about Blue Origin's major role in Lunar landings.
> That adds challenges to NASA’s Artemis return-to-the-moon program, which already has little margin of error for meeting a goal of landing astronauts on the moon by the end of 2028.
> Blue Origin is one of two companies — Elon Musk’s SpaceX is the other — that NASA has hired to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon’s surface.
> The plan for Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander relies on multiple New Glenn launches to get that lander to the moon.
> When Blue Origin won its $3.4 billion moon lander contract in 2023, NASA envisioned not needing the company until the third landing mission. The first two lunar landings were awarded two years earlier to SpaceX, which is adapting its giant Starship spacecraft.
I’m not part of the HR team at Blue, but I’ve observed enough from the outside to feel genuinely bad for the people on it. The level of turnover is higher than I’ve seen in other companies’ HR teams, including Amazon. Does the CPO, Jennifer even bother to care, or demand that her staff care? If Blue’s HR doesn’t feel safe escalating unethical behavior, how can the rest of Blue trust HR to guide us in doing right by our teams? Anyone else worried or seeing it?
Hi everyone, sorry for the long text, please help! in April, I applied for a technician position on Merritt Island, I got two interviews and I got the job, they called me for a job offer and I accepted through the phone but not yet on the document they sent... On the same day I had to take my wife to the hospital due to chest pain, they found bumps on her breasts so she had to go through cancer screenings and many other things, that same week my car got stolen, those things made me decline the offer when they sent it to me. Two weeks later they called me again offering another job, I was still going through the same situations so i told the recruiter I would had to decline. 4 months have passed and thank God whatever my wife has is not cancer, I applied again to two positions that offer relocation again, how can I let them know that this time I am 100% ready and willing to join the company and move.
Working for Blue origin is something I always wanted and I really got depressed when I had to decline.
What can I do??? Please help
So a few months back I made a post about building my own Blue Moon Mk1 for KSP. This time I went away and accurately modelled (and with the help of other KSP users) / integrated the lander in game for Blue Moon Mk1 / Artemis fans out there.
Photos by KSP user \"Amateur\"
Most of the fetaures and dimensions are based on conceptual images from social media, press release renders and BO's image gallery. Other elements are pretty much fan-fictional otherwise.
You can find the lander and its parts in the Blue-Exploration-Rocketry-Division github folder 'BERD' for KSP.
Have fun!
Satellite operators emphasize launch deals in a constrained market
https://spacenews.com/satellite-operators-emphasize-launch-deals-in-a-constrained-market/
I wanted to get your opinions on a thought I've had. Starship has been demonstrating various but improving degrees of success in fielding a reusable upper stage. Even the most pessimistic doubter would agree that full reusability is going to be demonstrated in the very near future.
At this point, with Blue's only real heavy lift competitor making such great technical leaps, you would think that Blue would be going gangbusters to develop their own fully reusable vehicle system.
Now let's assume that job postings, especially for certain telltale skillsets, are an indicator of where a company is investing effort. (Anecdotally, this does seem to be the case, for anyone who's followed Blue's job postings for a long while. Looking at you, Eric Berger.)
So you would expect that Blue would have a great number of job postings for reusable upper stage positions, relative to incremental engineering upgrade positions. Yet, the engineering job postings are overwhelmingly dominated by hiring that appears to be aimed at the 9x4 New Glenn system, which still has an expendable upper stage, but now features twice the engine consumption per launch as 7x2.
Is anybody at the top concerned about the competition? In the future, will Blue be mentioned alongside Kodak in as companies that completely failed to maintain technical competitiveness, despite every sign that their survival would eventually depend upon it?
I know we heard that little blurb from Jeff on the Everyday Astronaut factory tour about running two expendable and reasonable development programs side by side. But, there has been no public discussions of any reusable stage beyond that, and assuming job postings indicate company priority, full resuability certainly does not seem to be one.
I'm just flummoxed.
Can’t believe this guy gets to run his organization like an entitled dictator. The way he treats people is the worst. Not whining here at all. This guy sucks. He sucked at SpaceX and he sucks here.
I previously mentioned seeing numerous Linkedin posts about top-notch Blue veterans leaving for other companies. I am also seeing many Linkedin post of bright new grads elated that they just accepted an offer at Blue. I wish them well. I wish Blue well.
Hopefully, these engineers can keep their upbeat, youthful innocence as long as possible.
I wish my college engineering curriculum had included a course on corporate policies and politics. Nothing that I learned in college prepared me for that career-long culture shock.
I left Blue shortly before the David Limp/Amazon era. One historical footnote. The mandated "one person in your group gets an unacceptable performance review" policy started with HR SVP Mary Plunkett, who was made redundant as David Limp arrived. She was a gleeful advocate of this "rank & yank" policy whether it was her idea or not. Sad to hear that this policy still exists at least in some groups at Blue.
I even wish Mary well regardless.
Anybody know when they'll restock merch? Want to get a gift for a friend and everything between a small and large is sold out.
I am seeing an increase of top, veteran Blue engineers announcing on Linkedin that they are moving on to other employment, particularly other space startups or energy companies. Is this just normal attrition, "unregretted" or otherwise? On another topic, I live in Huntsville and can hear BE-4 hot fire tests from my home. They make a distinctive sound, especially at shutdown. I haven't heard one in a few months for understandable reasons. But I have also read the Blue Origin is committed to launching New Glenn again this year. I appreciate and respect the "can do" and "never tell me the odds" passion. But I also hope that Blue Origin takes its time to fully identify the cause, take corrective action including redesign as needed, perform thorough testing, and work closely with and get approval from Range Safety, FAA or other relevant government agencies. Achieving successful hot fire tests, pad tests and flights matters more than meeting dates by orders of magnitude. I wish Blue well.
more images here: https://x.com/Starship_20/status/2088445065030992190?s=20
Can anyone speak to wlb differences/quality of life between the two? Currently have passed loop inclined AWS for hardware eng, and mid process with Blue, I assume pay will be somewhat significantly more compared to BO from the RSU/Sign on, but BO location is more preferred. BO seems to offer more PTO/holiday etc. has anyone navigated this decision before?
