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Blue Origin is seeking roughly $10 billion in new private capital, valuing the company at about $130 billion before the investment. This marks the first time in more than two decades that the company, previously self-funded, will accept outside investors, with notable contributions including $4 billion from Coatue and $2 billion from Jeff Bezos.
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Blue Origin says the New Glenn rocket will be launched again this year, with the company’s CEO confirming that the vehicle will fly before the end of the calendar year. The investigation into the launch-pad explosion found that the rocket’s fuel tanks and key pad components survived the incident, allowing the planned return flight.
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket detonated during a static-fire test at Cape Canaveral, producing a large fireball that destroyed the vehicle and critical launch-pad infrastructure. The explosion jeopardizes NASA’s lunar-mission timeline, Amazon’s satellite-deployment schedule, and has prompted the Pentagon to explore an alternative launch site.
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Blue Origin has paused its New Shepard suborbital space-tourism program, effectively ending the commercial flights that had completed 38 launches, carried 98 passengers and deployed more than 200 scientific payloads. The company is redirecting resources toward developing lunar landers for NASA and to support the United States’ renewed focus on moon exploration.
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Blue Origin is building a satellite communications network named TeraWave, consisting of 5,408 satellites that will deliver up to 6 terabits per second of data capacity. The service is aimed at enterprise, data-center and government users and is slated to begin deployment in the fourth quarter of 2027.
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