Blue Origin and Five Other Companies Study How Orbital Transfer Vehicles Can Aid NASA
5 Aug 2025
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GEEKWIRE - Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among six companies that will be producing studies for NASA looking at low-cost ways to use orbital transfer vehicles to deliver spacecraft to hard-to-reach orbits for the space agency.
The awards will support nine studies in all, with a maximum total value of about $1.4 million, NASA said today.
Note: Blue Origin is headquartered in Kent.
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