Blue Origin seeking outside investment?
May 16, 2026
By Chris Forrester
The Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin rocket company is reportedly seeking outside investment funding.
Blue Origin, which has largely been dependent on revenue from tourism flights and is just starting commercial launches for the likes of AST SpaceMobile, is weighing up plans to invite outside investors, according to FT.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp is said to have told employees at a recent all-hands meeting that the company might have to turn to external fundraising if it went ahead with plans to significantly increase its launch cadence.
The reports from Blue Origin’s sister business at Amazon Leo and Chris Weber, VP/Business and Product, is to double the launch cadence of its LEO fleet. “The theme moving forward is acceleration,” he said. “What we’ve said is that over the next 12 months, we’ll double the number of launches, satellites, et cetera, so everything is about accelerating that.”
Weber added that a service introduction of Amazon Leo is not that far away, noting: “What we’ve said publicly is that in the coming months — so it’s not years away — we’ll launch, and that’ll be in the northern and southern hemisphere, because you need enough satellites to have coverage where your customer terminal is seeing a satellite. And so we’ll launch that in the next couple of months, our fixed service. And then as we get more and more satellites up, that coverage will expand inward geographically.”
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