Subj : Blue Origin reveals a new cloud platform...for space
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Oct 17 2023 15:15:06

Blue Origin reveals a new cloud platform...for space

Date:
Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:06:08 +0000

Description:
Governments and commercial customers may soon be able to send more to space 
thanks to Blue Origin.

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Blue Origin has teased what its calling a multi-mission, multi-orbit space 
mobility platform, which will serve as a delivery platform connecting the 
Earth with medium Earth orbit and beyond. 

In a brief announcement online, Blue Origin described the process as one that 
facilitates in-space logistics and delivery, and it looks to combine aspects 
of the web we know already on Earth with a whole lot more. 

Key to the delivery service is a new space vehicle, called Blue Ring, which 
will serve as a taxi for data and other payloads between Earth and space. 
Blue Ring lays foundation for Earth-space connectivity 

The company says that Blue Ring will support a variety of missions in medium 
Earth orbit out to the cislunar region and beyond. The cislunar region refers 
to an area of space between Earth and the moon. 

The plan is for it to become available as a logistics tool for commercial and 
government customers. The platform will provide end-to-end services, 
including hosting and data relay, but also more conventionally physical 
aspects like transportation, logistics, and refueling. Blue Origin says that 
it can host payloads of more than 3,000kg. 

Paul Ebertz, SVP for In-Space Systems at Blue Origin, said that Blue Ring is 
designed to help grow space infrastructure and increase mobility on-orbit, 
otherwise solving two of the most difficult challenges in spaceflight today. 

Ebertz added: We're offering our customers the ability to easily access and 
maneuver through a variety of orbits cost-effectively while having access to 
critical data to ensure a successful mission. 

Full details of the new platform remain undisclosed, and were filled with 
questions about what this could mean about the future of space missions. 

For now, we can only speculate that Blue Origin may lean on some of the 
technologies and findings of Amazon, which has already perfected ground 
logistics and cloud services. Both companies were previously headed up by 
Jeff Bezos, but have gone their separate ways in terms of leadership. More 
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