Blue Origin tops 4,500 Space Coast jobs as New Glenn buildout accelerates

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    "excerpt": "Blue Origin's growing footprint across Brevard County has surpassed 4,500 people, and a surge of rocket-related infrastructure construction projects will only expand that total moving forward, Senior Vice President of New Glenn Jordan Charles said. And \"in case anybody's been living under a rock for the last three months,\" Charles said the site of the May 28 New Glenn rocket explosion is home to an around-the-clock rebuilding campaign at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. \"It's a beehive of activity. We have over 1,000 people working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to restore that launch complex to an operationally ready state,\" Charles said. \"And Blue Origin remains deeply committed to our goal of launching New Glenn at Launch Complex 36A by the end of this year,\" he said. Charles delivered Blue Origin growth updates Monday, Aug. 31, during a groundbreaking ceremony for the private space company's future $160 million payload processing facility at the Space Force installation. He spoke at an outdoor podium flanked by a huge heap of cracked concrete and twists of metal rebar. The PPF will rise nearly two miles southwest of the under-construction New Glenn launch complex. Measuring 120,000 square feet, Blue Origin's PPF will feature four payload processing bays and two encapsulation bays - and \"it's going to bring dozens and dozens of jobs to the Space Coast,\" said Laura...",
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