Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin signs Eutelsat as first customer

[March 07, 2017]  (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin signed its first customer for satellite launch services, inking a deal with Eutelsat Communications SA, Bezos said on Tuesday.

 Amazon founder and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos (L)announces plans to build a rocket manufacturing plant and launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida September 15, 2015. HO/Mike Brown/Space Florida

Blue Origin is developing a reusable orbital rocket called New Glenn that is expected to debut before the end of the decade.

“We couldn’t hope for a better first partner,” Bezos said during a keynote address at the Satellite 2017 conference.

(Reporting by Mike Stone and Irene Klotz; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)

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