# Blue Origin commits about $550 million to a Texas satellite manufacturing campus

Canonical page: https://technooptimist.io/stories/blue-origin-commits-about-550-million-to-a-texas-satellite-c973573a
Date: 8 Oct 2026
About: [Blue Origin](https://technooptimist.io/companies/blue-origin.md)
Original source: https://satnews.com/2026/10/09/blue-origin-commits-550m-to-texas-satellite-complex-as-jeff-bezos-confirms-10b-equity-round-and-ipo-roadmap/

Blue Origin plans a 1.3-million-square-foot campus in Hutto, Texas, to build spacecraft and ground hardware, with an investment of about $550 million. The site will make satellites for the planned TeraWave network and antennas for Project Quartz, its ground station network. Construction is due to start in early 2027.

## Key facts

- The campus will include cleanrooms, environmental test chambers and automated assembly lines.
- TeraWave is planned as a 5,408-satellite network in low and medium Earth orbit, offering up to 6 Tbps.
- Assembly lines are targeted to be running for the first TeraWave launches in late 2027.
- The 2,000-job figure comes from local development plans, not from Blue Origin itself.
- Jeff Bezos confirmed a $10 billion funding round on October 7, the company's first outside institutional capital; he said an IPO is possibly several years away.

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