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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin said Friday it plans to make extensive upgrades to its Florida launch facilities with the goal of supporting multiple flights per week by the end of the decade.
The company will add two more launch and landing pads for New Glenn, its heavy-lift, partially reusable rocket. A $330 million expansion to its Rocket Park campus in Cape Canaveral, expected to be complete in the summer of 2027, will enable it to produce up to 150 upper stages of its New Glenn rocket annually, Blue Origin said in a blog post.
"These investments are centered on one goal: building the capacity to support more missions, more reliably, and more efficiently," Ian Richardson, Blue Origin's senior vice president of operations, wrote in the post. "As we look ahead, this infrastructure is designed to support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade."
Blue Origin is working to ramp up its launch cadence as it vies to compete with its chief rival, Elon Musk's SpaceX, for commercial and government customers.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp told CNBC's Morgan Brennan last month that the company's first outside funding round is "oversubscribed." The company had raised $10 billion for the round, valuing it at $140 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The company is also recovering from a setback in May, when one of its New Glenn rockets exploded on the launchpad. Blue Origin has been aggressively restoring the launchpad with a goal of returning New Glenn to flight by the end of 2026.
As part of the upgrades, Blue Origin said it's building a new customer integration facility with the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that will enable it to "prepare multiple missions at once" when it's up and running.
Blue Origin has invested more than $3 billion in its infrastructure and facilities in Florida, which now spans more than 20 sites across the state's Brevard and Orange counties, with more than 5,000 employees, Richardson said.
The space industry is also grappling with a launch capacity shortage, as SpaceX has stopped offering commercial rides on its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket to prioritize its massive Starship rocket. That's spurred a flurry of investment, with $92.5 billion invested in the commercial space sector in the first three quarters of 2026, according to a report this week by venture capital firm Space Capital.
Blue Origin, SpaceX and other rocket providers are seeing increasing demand from companies and governments trying to deploy satellites into orbit. Both Blue Origin and SpaceX have their own satellite internet services, and they're launch partners for Amazon, which is in the process of standing up its full Leo low Earth orbit satellite constellation.
SpaceX's Starlink currently dominates the market with more than 11,000 satellites in orbit.