Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith will retire at the end of the year and his replacement will come from another company owned by Jeff Bezos.
Dave Limp, an Amazon veteran who was planning to step down as head of the company’s consumer devices division, will take over as CEO. Limp, who has been senior vice president of devices and services for more than 13 years, has overseen the development and launch of several products, including Echo and Alexa, as well as Amazon’s line of Fire tablets.
It was a confusion of executive power First reported by CNBCwhich reviewed internal memos between Smith and Bezos.
Blue Origin is currently juggling a number of space projects, including launching its next-generation rocket and returning the New Shepard space tourism rocket to flight. The space company is also working on a $34.7 million contract awarded by NASA to further develop its solution for processing solar cells from lunar regolith. Blue Origin said this operation “will pave an unlimited number of electricity and energy transmission cables anywhere on the moon’s surface.”
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