Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans a $330 million expansion of its Florida launch facilities to support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade, including two more New Glenn launch and landing pads. The Rocket Park campus in Cape Canaveral, due for completion in summer 2027, will produce up to 150 upper stages annually. The company is recovering from a May explosion of a New Glenn rocket on its launchpad and aims to return the rocket to flight by the end of 2026. Blue Origin has invested more than $3 billion across more than 20 Florida sites, employing over 5,000 people, and reportedly raised $10 billion at a $140 billion valuation in its first outside funding round. The article notes the industry faces a launch capacity shortage, partly because SpaceX stopped offering commercial Falcon 9 rides.
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