Jeff Bezos' rocket venture Blue Origin gets its first paying customer
Washington
JEFF Bezos, the billionaire chief executive of Amazon, founded a rocket company as a hobby 16 years ago. Now that company, Blue Origin, finally has its first paying customer as it ramps up to become a full-fledged business.
Mr Bezos announced that customer, satellite television provider Eutelsat, on Tuesday. In about five years, Eutelsat, based in Paris, will strap one of its satellites to a new Blue Origin rocket to be delivered to space, a process it has done dozens of times with other space partners.
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