Jeff Bezos' Space Company Unveils Plans for Orbital Anti-Asteroid Defense Weapons

Jeff Bezos' Space Company Unveils Plans for Orbital Anti-Asteroid Defense Weapons

Its rockets may have only reached orbit twice so far and its lunar lander is still many years out from getting anywhere near the Moon — but Amazon cofounder Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is already looking far into the future. Last week, the company unveiled plans for a “Near-Earth Objects (NEO) Hunter mission concept for planetary defense,” a collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The idea is to test “multiple asteroid-deflection…