Bezos plans to build Orbital Reef in, guess where, orbit.

This is smart of Jeff Bezos. He should stop chasing Elon Musk when it comes to building rockets and concentrate instead on building orbital business parks:

Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos, has unveiled plans for a space station called Orbital Reef.

The space station would be built to give anyone “the opportunity to establish their own address on orbit” by providing services such as planning, payload development, training, transportation, data analysis and security.

Besides, there’s a LOT of [expletive deleted]ing money in all of that. Which Bezos knows, perfectly well: Amazon makes a metric [expletive deleted]-ton of cash selling services to people*. Expanding that out to LEO seems a reasonable progression. And a good start.

(AVia: @BrianFaughnan)

Moe Lane

*For example: I publish books, remember? Because I don’t! Amazon publishes them, and gives me my cut.