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A successful recent round of fundraising means a commercial suborbital launch is on track to start in 2025, company officials said Tuesday.

Blue Origin’s accomplishments to date are modest — a small vehicle known as New Shepard that takes space tourists and experiments on brief suborbital jaunts.

That doesn’t include test launches from Texas of its in-development Starship and Super Heavy, which is gearing up for its third attempt at a successful suborbital launch as early as next month.

“No bureaucracy, no committees, they just do what they want,” Bezos told a crowd gathered in Van Horn, Texas, just after he went into suborbital space for the first time.

The company's suborbital tourist rocket, New Shepard, has been grounded for more than a year after a 2022 accident.