Jeff Bezos already had the money and the motivation to build Orbital Reef. Now he also has a rocket to make it happen.
It's been less than four years since Amazon founder Jeff Bezos dropped his big bombshell on the space industry. Announcing ...
Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...
Blue Origin launched its towering New Glenn rocket for the first time early Monday, in a crucial milestone for Jeff Bezos' space company.
Blue Origin also has orders from Amazon's Project Kuiper for at least 12 launches of its internet satellites, as well as plans to launch the Blue Moon lunar and Orbital Reef space station.
The aforementioned space station Blue Origin is building, called Orbital Reef, is part of a collaboration between the company and several other partners, such as Sierra Space and Boeing.
Even without recovering New Glenn’s reusable booster, Blue Origin has joined the ranks of commercial companies with rockets able to launch into orbit.
Blue Origin has also been working toward the deployment of a private space station known as Orbital Reef, and it has been tapped by NASA to provide lunar landing services for later Artemis missions.