{"id":17397,"date":"2022-04-04T18:38:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T10:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jeff-bezos-worlds-collide-amazon-and-aws-join-blue-origin-on-orbital-reef-space-station-team\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T10:38:26","slug":"jeff-bezos-worlds-collide-amazon-and-aws-join-blue-origin-on-orbital-reef-space-station-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jeff-bezos-worlds-collide-amazon-and-aws-join-blue-origin-on-orbital-reef-space-station-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos\u2019 worlds collide: Amazon and AWS join Blue Origin on Orbital Reef space station team"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/220404-orbitalreef2-630x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-688561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/220404-orbitalreef2-630x315.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/220404-orbitalreef2-1260x630.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/220404-orbitalreef2-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/220404-orbitalreef2.jpg 1356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption>An artist\u2019s conception shows the Orbital Reef space station. (Orbital Reef via Amazon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amazon and its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, say they\u2019re joining forces with another company founded by Jeff Bezos to support the development of a commercial space station known as Orbital Reef.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture is one of the leaders of the Orbital Reef project, along with Colorado-based Sierra Space. Boeing, Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering and Arizona State University are also part of the consortium.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, Orbital Reef won a $130 million award from NASA to move ahead with the design of an orbital outpost that could fill the gap when the International Space Station is retired in the 2030-2031 time frame. Two other teams \u2014 led by Nanoracks and Northrop Grumman \u2014 also won NASA funding to flesh out their space station concepts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Announcing Orbital Reef - Your Address in Orbit\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SC3ooNXfcGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In a blog posting, AWS said it would provide services and technology tools to support Orbital Reef\u2019s development from the engineering design phase to on-orbit networking and operations. Amazon would contribute its expertise in logistics to streamline delivery and inventory management of space station supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos founded Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin in 2000, six years after he founded Amazon. While publicly traded Amazon has become a powerhouse in markets ranging from retail to cloud computing and entertainment, privately held Blue Origin has focused on developing launch vehicles as well as the Orbital Reef space station and other advanced space projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon and AWS are ideal collaborators to support transportation, habitation and communication,\u201d said Brent Sherwood, senior vice president of advanced development programs for Blue Origin. \u201cWe\u2019re working with the world\u2019s best to reimagine logistics for a commercial mixed-use space business park.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows the Orbital Reef space station. (Orbital Reef via Amazon) Amazon and its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, say they\u2019re joining forces with another company founded by Jeff Bezos to support the development of a commercial space station known as Orbital Reef. Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[275,4455,4526,509,291,4386,4491],"class_list":["post-17397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-aws","tag-blue-origin","tag-commercial-space","tag-orbital-reef","tag-space-outposts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}