Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin aims to expand beyond US

SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin is looking to expand beyond the US, and is searching international markets for a launch site, according to a report on Thursday.

The company is also on the lookout for “new partnerships and acquisitions in Europe and beyond” in a bid to scale up its space services with launch and engine businesses, the Financial Times reported. “We’re looking for anything we can do to acquire, to scale up to better serve our customers,” Bob Smith, chief executive, Blue Origin was quoted as saying.

“It’s not a function of size — rather how much it accelerates our road map of what we’re trying to get done,” he added. The company is also looking at acquisitions and partnerships in areas from manufacturing to software and wants to expand services in new regions such as Europe.

While “no location had yet been chosen” for the new launch site…”I think there’s a great opportunity in Europe,” said Smith. “It’s far less clear to us how to actually sell space services in Europe than it is in the US.” But Europe can open new avenues for Blue Origin as the continent is currently facing limited launch availability with the imminent retirement of the Ariane 5 rocket, and only two rockets remaining Ariane 6, which has yet to fly, and Vega-C. (IANS)

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