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Does Amazon have a way of putting the satellites in orbit yet? Is that going to be up to Blue Origin?

I sincerely hope not. The lawsuits will fly if Bezos awards Blue Origin launch contracts.

Really? Who would sue?

Amazon investors if there was preferential treatment given to the owner of the company's other, unrelated company. I don't know why the above comment is so downvoted - Elon Musk recently had to field a similar set of lawsuits for Tesla's solar city acquisition.

Jeff Bezos would probably just subsidize the launch cost by dumping another couple billion into BO, making it the cheapest option to Amazon.

It's a joke

Reference: Amazon lawsuit against Pentagon for Azure contract

Reference: Amazon lawsuit against Future Retail

etc

Or Blue Origin trying to patent rockets landing on floating platforms and then suing SpaceX. At least we are soon coming up on the 5 year anniversary of the first successful landing!

https://spacenews.com/spacex-gets-partial-win-in-patent-ruli...

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