U.S. Air Force Expands Blue Origin Rocket Cargo Contract

U.S. Air Force expands Blue Origin rocket cargo contract

The Air Force Research Laboratory increased by $11.7 million Blue Origin’s contract to study the use of space rockets for point-to-point deliveries The post U.S. Air Force expands Blue Origin rocket cargo contract  appeared first on SpaceNews.

U.S. Air Force expands Blue Origin’s role in rocket cargo program

The Pentagon just handed Blue Origin nearly $12 million more to figure out whether the company’s rockets could someday deliver military cargo to anywhere on Earth within about an hour, a concept that sounds like science fiction but has quietly moved from an experimental sketch to a funded engineering study. Blue Origin LLC, based in […]

AFRL Adds $11.7M to Blue Origin’s Point-to-Point Cargo Contract

Blue Origin landed a $11.7M modification to its existing contract with AFRL to study how its launch technologies can be used to complete point-to-point cargo delivery missions for the DoD—bringing the total contract value to ~$13M. The contract is part of the DoD’s expanding efforts to use space for military logistics, which includes both rocket-based cargo resupply efforts—through the Rocket Experimentation for Global Agile Logistics (REGAL) pr…