Jeff Bezos -owned space company Blue Origin, according to an email sent to employees on Thursday, is taking about 10 percent of its work force and was seen by the New York Times.
Cut, which can affect around 1,000 roles, follows several years of rapid growth and successful launch of New Glenn last month, the company’s massive re -purpose rocket.
The Chief Executive of Blue Origin, Dave Limp stated in the email that the company was bloated, and that the deduction would be in engineering, research and development, project management and general managerial layers.
He said that the leaders of Blue Origin had determined that his priority was 2025 and beyond “to score our manufacturing production and launch the rhythm for our customers with speed, decisiveness and efficiency.”
Blue Origin has not revealed how many employees he has, but its work power is widely estimated by more than 10,000 people.
Amazon founder Mr. Bezos has put the Arabs in the blue origin. He has long described a vision of establishing human colonies in space, and it was important to bring the cost of launching cargo into space. But his company is lagging behind the development of Elon Musk’s private space company, SpaceX.
At the end of 2023, Mr. Bezos hired a former senior Amazon Executive Mr. Limp to run Blue Origin and establish it with a sense of urgency. Chad Anderson, a start-up investor from Space Capital, said the company was in a permanent research and development cycle with money from Mr. Bezos.
“When you have an unlimited amount, you do not have the same feeling of lack and need,” Mr. Anderson said.
Employees were shattered for some time sorting. Late Wednesday, he received an invitation for a virtual meeting at 7 am on Thursday. In the eight -minute session, Mr. Limp announced the cut. At 7:10, he chased with a companywide email, confirming the trimming.
Mr. Limp said in the email that the company will still “rent hundreds of positions.”
During an appearance at the Commercial Space Conference at Washington, DC on Wednesday, Mr. Limp was excited about Blue Origin and did not indicate that he was about to say goodbye to one of every 10 employees.
“We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we have made a lot of progress on basic things in the last one year and are working quickly and we are turning us into a world -class construction company,” said Mr. Limp. “I think we have made some progress. We have a lot to do this year too. ,
The rate of construction of BE-4 engines is used for the vulcan rocket manufactured by the new Glenn rocket and United Launch Alliance of the Blue Origin-it has increased for about a week in a week. “And by the way, it is going to double or triple in the next 12 to 18 months,” he said.
Blue Origin is on track to launch a lander on the moon this year, said Mr. Limp. Although it will only take cargo, not people, it will test technologies that will be used for a large lander that is developing for the blue original NASA and its Artemis program.
“We have killed all our miles,” said Mr. Limp. “We are still on the track, subject to the Artemis schedule.”
Mr. Limp said that even this small lander would be greater than anything landing on the moon, including landers used by NASA astronauts during the Apollo program.
Sri Limp Trump was also fast on the space plans of the administration, even though those space plans are not yet clear. “It is great to see increased attention to space in the first month of this administration,” he said. “We are clearly very big fans.”
Even if NASA attracted his attention to Mars from the Moon – Mr. Musk’s favorite destination – Blue Origin technologies would also be suited for that long journey. “You can treat them a little like Lego bricks,” said Mr. Limp. “It replaces a manned mission for Mars or a cargo mission for Mars, which uses the vast majority of most of these.”
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