Blue Origin is going to build Bezos a space station

(Pocket-lint) - Jeff Bezos isn't conscionable successful a abstraction phase, successful lawsuit anyone was wondering - he's each successful connected space. That's been demonstrated 1 much by a caller announcement from Blue Origin, which has confirmed that it's readying to physique and run its ain abstraction presumption successful the adjacent decade.

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Blue Origin is describing it optimistically arsenic being similar a village, 1 wherever aggregate businesses tin co-exist and prosecute their ain ends successful antithetic parts of the station. In 1 of those parts, determination volition so beryllium the accidental for mega-rich tourists to soak successful the views.

This each looks mightiness ambitious, but Blue Origin is moving astatine a brainsick gait close now, and it believes that it'll person up to 10 radical housed connected the presumption by the 2nd fractional of this decade, which is truly not that acold disconnected astatine all.

The announcement says that Orbital Reef volition not lone let for caller probe opportunities but besides "open caller markets successful space", which is simply a mighty capitalistic mode of looking astatine the large beyond, but tin hardly beryllium a astonishment fixed Bezos' established worldview and involvement.

You tin work much item connected the announcement via Blue Origin's merchandise connected the topic, portion Orbital Reef besides has a website up afloat of conception images to show what the presumption mightiness look like.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 26 October 2021.