Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington.
The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability.
FACILITIES -
Blue Origin has a development facility near Seattle, Washington and an operational launch facility in West Texas. Blue Origin is developing a new orbital launch facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Also with 11 acres of industrial land in Kent.
With launch vehicles such as the "Goddard" and "The New Shepard suborbital system".
Having Rocket engine developments such as the BE-3 BE-3U BE-4 and The Pusher escape motor.
FUNDING
By July 2014, Jeff Bezos had invested over US$500 million into Blue Origin. Even by March 2016, the vast majority of funding to support technology development and operations at Blue Origin has come from Jeff Bezos' private investment, but Bezos had declined to publicly state the amount.
Blue Origin has also completed work for NASA on several small development contracts, receiving total funding of US$25.7 million by 2013. As of April 2017, Bezos is selling approximately US$1 billion in Amazon stock each year to privately finance Blue Origin.
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