Blue Origin wins $700 million contract to build NASA's next Mars orbiter

Still from a Blue Origin animation showing its Mars Telecommunications Network orbiter at the Red Planet.

Blue Origin will build NASA's next Mars orbiter.

The agency announced on Tuesday (Sept. 1) that it has selected Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company to develop the $700 million Mars Telecommunications Network (MTN), which is expected to be up and running at the Red Planet by 2030.