Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announces plans for space station Orbital Reef
Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos, has unveiled plans for a station that will be operated as a "mixed-use business park" in space.
Called Orbital Reef, the space station is designed to give anyone "the opportunity to establish their own address on orbit" by providing services such as planning, payload development, training, transportation, data analysis and security.
The Orbital Reef space station will be in an orbit close to Earth
Blue Origin describes the station as a "mixed-use business park" that will provide the infrastructure that companies need to open new markets in space.
This includes reusable space transportation and an open-system architecture that allows users to scale up their use of the station as needed, with features such as module berths, vehicle ports, utilities and amenities set to grow with the market. The space station by Blue Origin will have Earth-facing living quarters
Blue Origin is developing the station with commercial space company Sierra Space. It will be built in low Earth orbit ? an orbit relatively close to the Earth's surface ? and will be commercially owned, developed and operated.
"For over sixty years, NASA and other space agencies have developed orbital space flight and space habitation, setting us up for commercial business to take off in this decade," said Brent Sherwood, senior vice president of advanced development programs for Blue Origin.
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