Irene Klotz
August 13, 2025

Credit: Blue Origin concept

Blue Origin will offer a variant of its Blue Ring in-space platform to serve as a Mars telecommunications orbiter for NASA. In response to a July 7 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) from NASA, Blue Origin said Aug. 12 it will build upon its existing Blue Ring platform to create a Mars…

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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