Jeff Bezos Has 3 Customers at Blue Origin -- Now He Just Needs a Rocket

Jeff Bezos Has 3 Customers at Blue Origin -- Now He Just Needs a Rocket

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos is spending $1 billion of his personal fortune every year -- and cashing in Amazon stock to do it -- as he attempts to build a rocket empire at Blue Origin. Now, it's starting to look like he might earn some of that back.

Last week, Blue Origin announced the signing of its third rocket launch customer. To be clear, these are commercial satellite launch contracts we are talking about -- not mere "space tourism" to the edge of space, aboard suborbital rockets, as has been previously reported.

Blue Origin's got three BE-4 rocket engines in a row (but where's the actual rocket?). Image source: Blue Origin.

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