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Offers suborbital space tourism experiences
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Seattle, WA, USA + 1 more
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Blue Origin focuses on making space travel accessible through suborbital space tourism. The company offers unique experiences where passengers can travel to the edge of space aboard its reusable rocket, New Shepard. This rocket takes passengers on an 11-minute journey, allowing them to experience several minutes of weightlessness and stunning views of Earth from over 100 kilometers above. Blue Origin generates revenue by selling premium tickets for these flights, targeting affluent individuals and space enthusiasts. Unlike many competitors, Blue Origin not only provides space tourism but is also developing advanced rocket engines and technologies for potential sales to other aerospace companies and government agencies. The company's goal is to lead in the commercial spaceflight market while expanding into lunar landers and other space exploration technologies.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Grant
Total Funding
$112.9M
Headquarters
Kent, Washington
Founded
2000
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Blue Origin announced on Thursday that it will be laying off 10 percent of its workforce, around 1,400 employees.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on its Florida launch pad in January. (Blue Origin Photo)Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to cut about 10% of its workforce according to an announcement Thursday by the Kent, Wash.-based company’s CEO.“Our primary focus in 2025 and beyond is to scale our manufacturing output and launch cadence with speed, decisiveness, and efficiency for our customers,” Dave Limp said in an email to employees, obtained by GeekWire (read in full below). “We grew and hired incredibly fast in the last few years, and with that growth came more bureaucracy and less focus than we needed.”Limp said the makeup of Blue Origin must change to ensure that roles are best aligned with executing on company priorities. Positions in engineering, RD, and program/project management are being eliminated, and layers of management are being thinned, he added.The layoffs will affect roughly 1,400 of the company’s nearly 14,000 employees and come just a few weeks after the first successful launch of the company’s heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. It was a milestone achievement for Bezos, the Amazon founder who started Blue Origin in 2000.Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, left, and CEO Dave Limp monitor the countdown to the New Glenn rocket’s launch from Mission Control last month. (Blue Origin via YouTube)In an earlier all-hands meeting with employees on Thursday, Limp said, “We just came to the painful conclusion that we aren’t set up for the kind of success that we really wanted to have,” as Blue Origin aims to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its dominant Falcon 9
In a Thursday email to employees, Blue Origin chief executive Dave Limp said the company is eliminating some engineering and research jobs while also cutting out middle management.
Blue Origin plans major layoffs, cutting hundreds to over a thousand jobs to reduce costs and focus on increasing rocket launch frequency, reports say.
Today's launch comes after 15 years of development and setbacks as Blue Origin worked to develop a semi-reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle that could rival companies like SpaceX and United Launch Alliance for commercial and military space contracts.