Business of Space

Jeff Bezos Likes Satellite Networks So Much, He’s Launching a Second

Blue Origin wants to enter the new and complicated industry of beaming down data from space.

Overhead of the New Glenn rocket from Blue Origin, one of the three heavy-lift launch providers Amazon selected for its Amazon Leo satellite network.Source: Business Wire

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By Sana Pashankar

January 28, 2026 at 3:01 PM UTC

Corrected

January 28, 2026 at 6:16 PM UTC

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Greetings stargazers, it’s Sana Pashankar in Washington. Blue Origin wants to enter the new and complicated industry of beaming down data from space. We’ll get to that but first ...

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