蓝色起源（Blue Origin）的首席执行官戴夫·林普（Dave Limp）表示，该公司首次向外部投资者募集资金的工作尚未完成，但已经吸引了大量投资者的兴趣，他称此次融资活动“超额认购”。林普在周二于华盛顿特区举行的特朗普政府“Hello, America”科技峰会上表示：“投资者们对太空产业的热情令人惊叹……他们明白太空的潜力是无限的，将商业项目送入太空的可能性也非常巨大；这充分证明了这次融资活动的成功。”
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said the company's first-ever outside capital raise is not closed yet and is drawing heavy investor interest, describing the funding round as "oversubscribed." "I'm so amazed the investor community embraces space this much. … They know that space is kind of infinite and the possibilities of putting commercial things in space, and it is a testament to the tailwind of raising this round," Limp said at the Trump administration's "Hello, America" tech summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
据《华尔街日报》（Wall Street Journal）报道，该公司此前已经筹集了100亿美元，估值达到1400亿美元。据该报道，杰夫·贝索斯（Jeff Bezos）在这次融资中出资了20亿美元，并且自2000年公司成立以来，他总共向蓝色起源投资了300亿美元。不过林普并未确认最终的融资金额以及贝索斯的具体投资额。
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company had already raised $10 billion at a valuation of $140 billion. Jeff Bezos chipped in $2 billion in the current raise, according to the WSJ, and has invested $30 billion since the company's founding in 2000. Limp did not confirm the final numbers or how much Bezos has invested.
这家由贝索斯创立的太空公司至今一直由他全额资助。林普表示，与投资者群体建立联系这一举措对蓝色起源来说是一个重要的转折点，因为该公司正计划扩大业务规模并推出更多具有前瞻性的新技术。
The 26-year-old space company, which was started by Bezos, has been fully funded by the Amazon founder up until now. Limp said the move to engage the investor community marks a significant shift for Blue Origin as it looks to ramp its operations and bring ambitious new technologies online.
“我坚信这将是杰夫有史以来最明智的投资选择，毕竟他的投资记录一直非常出色，”他说。
"I'm of the firm belief this will be the best investment Jeff has ever made, and by the way, he has some good ones on his track record," he said.
为什么今年投资者会纷纷涌入太空产业（无论是私募市场还是公开市场呢？）？SpaceX在今年6月的历史性首次公开募股（IPO）进一步巩固了这一产业的发展势头，同时也让人们意识到商业太空经济在未来几年内将迎来巨大的增长潜力。林普指出，促使蓝色起源现在决定与投资者合作的原因有很多：其中包括蓝色起源的“New Glenn”火箭已经成功完成了多次飞行任务、两个雄心勃勃的卫星星座项目的启动，以及公司迫切需要吸引和留住优秀人才。
Why now Investors have flocked to space companies this year, both in private and public markets. SpaceX's historic IPO in June further established the sector and brought attention to a commercial space economy poised to grow dramatically in the coming years. Limp said a "combination of things" led to the decision to engage with the investor community now. Those factors include Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket that has already flown multiple times, the unveiling of two ambitious satellite constellations and the need to attract and retain talent.
“在竞争激烈的市场中，吸引优秀的人才确实非常困难；因此，对公司进行外部估值、向员工明确展示公司的价值，无疑会起到很大的帮助。”他说。
"Attracting great talent … is difficult in a competitive world, and obviously having an external valuation on the company that shows employees what the value is is very helpful," he said.
去年，Blue Origin 的新型运载火箭“New Glenn”在首次飞行中成功进入轨道；去年秋天，其助推器也在第二次任务中成功着陆。今年四月，第三次任务中助推器成功着陆，但搭载的卫星（属于 AST SpaceMobile 公司）被部署到了错误的轨道上，最终导致卫星丢失。
Return to Flight Early last year, Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn reached orbit on its first flight, and last fall, landed its booster on the second mission. In April, a third mission saw mixed success as the booster landed, but the payload – a satellite for AST SpaceMobile – was deployed in the wrong orbit and ultimately lost.
五月底，“New Glenn”在卡纳维拉尔角发射台发生了灾难性爆炸，造成了严重损坏，该公司目前正在昼夜不停地努力进行修复工作。
In late May, New Glenn suffered a catastrophic explosion on Blue Origin's Cape Canaveral launch pad, causing extensive damage that the company has been working around the clock to repair.
Limp 在周二确认，公司仍计划在今年年底前让“New Glenn”重新投入飞行。他还表示，目前有 1,000 名工作人员正在发射台上工作（白班 500 人，夜班 500 人），全公司都在全力以赴地推进这一计划。公司的卫星星座计划也让投资者更清楚地了解公司的发展方向。
Limp confirmed on Tuesday that the plan is still for New Glenn to return to flight before the end of this year. He also said 1,000 people are working on the pad – 500 on the day shift, 500 on the night shift – as the company works around the clock to stick to that schedule. The satellite constellation plans also give investors a clearer view of where the company is headed.
“TeraWave”是该公司于今年一月推出的通信卫星服务项目，主要面向企业、数据中心和政府机构，而非普通消费者提供宽带服务。该项目需要部署超过 5,400 颗卫星，这些卫星将运行在近地轨道上。
TeraWave, unveiled in January, is a planned communications satellite service that would cater specifically to enterprise, data center, and government operations, rather than supply broadband to consumers. It would entail a constellation of more than 5,400 satellites in low Earth orbit.
“Project Sunrise”则是另一项重大计划，预计将部署约 56,000 颗卫星，这些卫星将具备在太空中处理人工智能计算任务的能力。
Project Sunrise, disclosed in March, would deploy a staggering sum of about 56,000 satellites capable of handling artificial intelligence computing from space.
在详细阐述 Blue Origin 的轨道数据中心战略时，Limp 表示：公司的目标是将许多大型数据中心部署在太阳同步轨道上（那里有稳定的太阳能供应），并使用“New Glenn”火箭来实现这些卫星的发射。
In some of his most detailed comments outlining Blue Origin's orbital data center strategy, Limp said the idea is to deploy many of the heavy data centers into sun-synchronous orbit, where solar is a constant source of power, using New Glenn rockets.
林普表示，这些轨道数据中心本身的通信能力较弱，但它们会通过 TeraWave 系统将处理结果传回地球，从而实现“近乎无限的计算能力”。他补充说，该公司正致力于提高火箭发射的频率，目标是从每年数百次发射增加到数千次发射。
Limp said the orbital data centers won't have much communications capability, but will instead connect into TeraWave to deliver results back down to Earth, enabling access to "effectively infinite compute." The company, he said, is looking to drive a rocket launch cadence that ramps from hundreds to thousands of missions per year.
“我们在公司的使命是建立太空经济，让数百万人在太空中工作和生活，”林普说道，“这是我们的百年愿景；同时，这也能帮助我们将重工业从地球上转移到太空中，让地球变成一个‘公园’。”这一次，投资者们将首次为这一宏伟目标提供资金支持。
"Our mission at the company is to make an economy in space, get millions of people working and living in space," added Limp. "That's the 100-year vision, but it allows us to move heavy industry off the planet, turn this planet into a park." For the first time, investors will help bankroll that mission.