Making troublesome selections
With the cuts, Blue Origin will search to trim its administration ranks. Of the cuts, Limp stated, “This resulted in eliminating some positions in engineering, R&D, and program/undertaking administration and scaling down our layers of administration.”
He added that these troublesome selections will set Blue Origin on track for fulfillment this yr and past. “This yr alone, we are going to land on the Moon, ship a file variety of unbelievable engines, and fly New Glenn and New Shepard on a daily cadence,” he wrote.
Even earlier than Thursday’s announcement, Blue Origin had been searching for to regulate prices. In response to sources, the corporate has had a hiring freeze in place for the final six months. And in January, it let nearly all of its contractors go.
The cuts seem like an effort by Bezos, who employed Limp a bit greater than a yr in the past, to place Blue Origin on a extra financially sound footing. Though Bezos may proceed to fund Blue Origin indefinitely with the wealth he has acquired from Amazon, he has been pushing packages to turn out to be, at worst, revenue-neutral.
Along with the New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin is engaged on creating massive uncrewed and crewed lunar landers, a human spacecraft for the rocket, and an Orbital Reef house station. The impacts to those packages weren’t instantly clear.
