Blue Origin Plans $554 Million Texas Factory, Bringing More Than 2,000 Jobs

Blue Origin is bringing a major satellite manufacturing operation to Hutto, Texas, with plans to invest more than $554 million and create over 2,000 jobs during the next decade.

The aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos announced Thursday that it will build a 1.3 million-square-foot manufacturing campus called Constellation Park along Highway 79, northeast of Austin.

The complex will produce equipment for satellite communications networks, adding another major technology employer to one of Central Texas' fastest-growing industrial corridors.

The Texas governor's office confirmed a planned capital investment of $554.78 million, supported by an $18.17 million grant from the Texas Enterprise Fund.

What the new factory will produce

Constellation Park will become a production center for TeraWave, Blue Origin's planned satellite network designed to provide high-capacity internet connections to businesses, data centers and government customers.

The facility will also manufacture equipment for Quartz, the company's ground-based communications network, along with satellite solar arrays, avionics and telecommunications hardware.

The company's expansion announcement describes the campus as a central manufacturing hub for several of its satellite programs.

Blue Origin already employs more than 550 people in Texas and operates Launch Site One, its private spaceport near Van Horn in West Texas.

The Hutto development will expand the company's presence from rocket launches and testing into large-scale satellite manufacturing.

Thousands of jobs, but over several years

Blue Origin expects to create more than 2,000 manufacturing and related positions over 10 years, rather than hiring the full workforce immediately.

The company has not yet provided a detailed annual hiring schedule or salary ranges.

It also plans to work with Hutto Independent School District to develop paid internships for high school students and support career and technical education.

That connection could give local students a pathway into aerospace manufacturing without necessarily beginning with a traditional four-year degree.

Another major employer for Hutto

Hutto, in Williamson County, has been attracting industrial investment as the Austin metropolitan area expands eastward.

The Highway 79 corridor already includes operations associated with Tesla and semiconductor-equipment manufacturer ASML.

Blue Origin's decision adds aerospace manufacturing to that growing concentration of advanced industries.

The project could also increase demand for housing, transportation improvements and skilled workers in a community already experiencing substantial growth.

For Hutto, the new factory represents more than another industrial building. It brings a major space-technology operation to a city that has increasingly become part of Central Texas' manufacturing economy.