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Sounds like bad news for Blue Origin - they can't even lunch Amazon's own satellites.

sam_bristow 3y ago
Technically Blue Origin and Amazon/Kuiper are competely separate companies. They both just happen to be majority owned by Bezos. It's still had to be a massive blow to BO though.
- tomcam 3y ago
  Note to self: never start a company likely to be known by the initials "BO"
  - borissk 3y ago
    Why?
    - tomcam 3y ago
      In American English slang it’s short for body odor, and is considered mildly offensive
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Technically Blue Origin and Amazon/Kuiper are competely separate companies. They both just happen to be majority owned by Bezos. No, Amazon is not majority-owned by Bezos.
  - sam_bristow 3y ago
    You're right. Far too lax in my wording. s/majority owned/major shareholder/
wkat4242 3y ago
Well they've never launched anything to orbit yet, not even a test. But they do have new Glenn slated for launch in Q3 next year..
panick21_ 3y ago
BlueOrigin has more Amazin contracts then SpaceX. And the majority of launches are going to be by ULA and Arianespace anyway. There are now 4 companies that contracts. Despite this, very likely Amazon is gone miss its sat required to FAA. But Im sure they are already preparing some excuses on why the failed to comply with the licence (covid ...).
- borissk 3y ago
  Don't think FAA will dare challenge Bezos huge army of lawyers anyway.
Rebelgecko 3y ago
They don't have the same vertical integration as SpaceX/Starlink.
- LargeTomato 3y ago
  If you ask most people who work at Amazon they will tell you that Blue Origin is amazon's rocket company. The perception of vertical integration is there. Also, Amazon initially went with Blue and that decision was so bad in hind sight they are being sued https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2023/09/07/amazon-faces-shareholder-lawsuit-blue-origin.html https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2023/09/07/amazon-f... that implies some bias towards Blue.
  - Rebelgecko 3y ago
    Does Amazon get launches for below market rate?

Technically Blue Origin and Amazon/Kuiper are competely separate companies. They both just happen to be majority owned by Bezos. It's still had to be a massive blow to BO though.

tomcam 3y ago
Note to self: never start a company likely to be known by the initials "BO"
- borissk 3y ago
  Why?
  - tomcam 3y ago
    In American English slang it’s short for body odor, and is considered mildly offensive
dragonwriter 3y ago
> Technically Blue Origin and Amazon/Kuiper are competely separate companies. They both just happen to be majority owned by Bezos. No, Amazon is not majority-owned by Bezos.
- sam_bristow 3y ago
  You're right. Far too lax in my wording. s/majority owned/major shareholder/

wkat4242 3y ago

Well they've never launched anything to orbit yet, not even a test. But they do have new Glenn slated for launch in Q3 next year..

panick21_ 3y ago

BlueOrigin has more Amazin contracts then SpaceX. And the majority of launches are going to be by ULA and Arianespace anyway. There are now 4 companies that contracts. Despite this, very likely Amazon is gone miss its sat required to FAA. But Im sure they are already preparing some excuses on why the failed to comply with the licence (covid ...).

borissk 3y ago
Don't think FAA will dare challenge Bezos huge army of lawyers anyway.

Rebelgecko 3y ago

They don't have the same vertical integration as SpaceX/Starlink.

LargeTomato 3y ago
If you ask most people who work at Amazon they will tell you that Blue Origin is amazon's rocket company. The perception of vertical integration is there. Also, Amazon initially went with Blue and that decision was so bad in hind sight they are being sued https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2023/09/07/amazon-faces-shareholder-lawsuit-blue-origin.html https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2023/09/07/amazon-f... that implies some bias towards Blue.
- Rebelgecko 3y ago
  Does Amazon get launches for below market rate?