Jeff Bezos' satellite firm Blue Origin looks set to develop its own portfolio of ground station sites to support its upcoming fleet of satellites.

Tory Bruno, president of the Blue National Security Group within Blue Origin, has shared AI-modified images depicting early construction efforts for “Project Quartz” on X, a brand new ground station and operation center network planning the globe being rolled out by the company.

The imagery appears to depict a very large white radome, and another showing a concrete base before an ocean view, which he confirmed to be on an island in Bermuda in the replies.

“We are looking at an environment with 10,000s of spacecraft in orbit,” Bruno explained in another reply. “Mission operations is (sic) suddenly different. We can’t drive them from the ground the way we used to.”

Bruno described Project Quartz as a Blue Origin initiative and said Project Quartz would serve the company's TeraWave constellation.

Blue Origin's TeraWave fleet could comprise more than 5,400 satellites in low and medium Earth orbits. The company is also planning an orbital data center deployment that could total tens of thousands of machines in the future.

Salvatore “Tory” Bruno joined Blue Origin at the turn of the year, having served as the president and CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA) from August 2014 to December 2025, having worked with Lockheed before that.

Since arriving, he has championed Blue Origin’s heavy-lift and orbital logistics aspirations. The company has been awarded launch contracts under the US Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 contract in 2025, for which it saw $2.4 billion.

On April 19, Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket from Launch Complex 36, successfully reaching orbit, however, its payload, AST SpaceMobile’s Bluebird 7, was subsequently placed in an "off-nominal orbit", according to another X.com post made at 2.40pm, later that day AST declared the satellite would be unable to "sustain operations" meaning the satellite would need to be deorbited. The high-profile incident resulted in AST SpaceMobile’s stock dropping 15 percent the same day, undoing much of the growth the stock had seen this year in a single day.

On April 20th, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp made a statement, once again on X.com, stating "While we are pleased with the nominal booster recovery, we clearly didn't deliver the mission our customer wanted, and our team expects." He explained one of New Glenn's BE-3U egines didn't produce sufficient thrust to reach target orbit.

Amazon, the cloud and e-commerce company set up by Blue Origin founder Bezos, has been expanding its own satellite fleet and infrastructure under the Amazon Leo brand. In December last year, Amazon Leo, formerly Project Kuiper, announced plans to install more than 300 ground stations to keep up with the expansion of its low-Earth orbit constellation.

Following recent approvals with the FCC, Amazon is able to expand to a total of 7,700 satellites, up from the 3,236 agreed in 2020. As of the April 15 United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V launch, the constellation comprises 241 active satellites. As of March 2026, SpaceX’s Starlink constellation surpassed the 10,000 active satellite mark.

Multiple users accused Bruno of using AI to doctor the image, a claim he acknowledged, explaining that “someone’s car” was in the shot and had to be taken out, warping the entire image. Another user accused the revelation of being boring, to which Bruno promised next time he would “include a shark with lasers.”