List of New Glenn launches
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New Glenn is a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin, named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. It flew to space on its maiden flight on January 16, 2025.
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Past launches
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Date and time (UTC) | Booster | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass (kg) | Orbit | Customer | Launch outcome |
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| 1 | January 16, 2025 07:03[1] |
GS1-SN001 So You're Telling Me There's a Chance[2] |
Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | Blue Ring Pathfinder[3] | Unknown | MEO | Blue Origin | Success | Failure (Jacklyn) |
| Maiden/demonstration flight of New Glenn, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft. First National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn.[4] The January 13 launch was scrubbed due to problems with the rocket. The second stage made it to orbit, but the first stage was lost and failed to land.[5] | |||||||||
| 2 | November 13, 2025 20:55 |
GS1-SN002-1 Never Tell Me The Odds[6] |
Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | ESCAPADE (2 spacecraft) and a payload from Viasat | 1,070 | Sun-Earth L2 to Areocentric | NASA | Success | Success (Jacklyn) |
| Second National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn, carrying the ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission for NASA as part of their low-cost SIMPLEx program, aiming to investigate Mars' magnetosphere and a technology demonstration payload from Viasat. New Glenn deployed two spacecraft on a direct interplanetary trajectory. NASA paid Blue Origin about $20 million for the launch.[7] Delayed from October 13, 2024; it was originally intended to be launched on the debut flight of New Glenn.[4] A launch attempt on November 9, 2025 was scrubbed due to weather conditions, with a future launch date scheduled for November 12.[8] This was delayed a day further due to a solar storm.[9] First successful first stage landing for New Glenn.[10] | |||||||||
Future launches
[edit]Launches are expected to take place "no earlier than" (NET) the listed date.
| Date and time (UTC) | Booster | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass (kg) | Orbit | Customer |
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| January 2026[11] | GS1-SN002-2 Never Tell Me The Odds[12] |
Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 1 | Unknown | TLI | NASA (CLPS) |
| Will carry a prototype Blue Moon Mark 1 lander, planned to make a landing on the Moon. During the mission Blue Moon will carry a payload called Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS), as part of a task order from NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, awarded in July 2024.[13][14][15] Unclear whether this is a rideshare on Elytra-1 or if there is another launch so soon. | ||||||
| 2026[11] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | Elytra Mission 1 and others[16] | Unknown | LEO? | NRO & others |
| NRO Responsive Space Mission, carrying Firefly's Elytra orbital transfer vehicle and Xtenti's FANTM-RiDE payload dispenser. Originally planned to launch on Firefly Alpha from SLC-2W at Vandenberg, but was moved to New Glenn following the failure of "Message in a Booster" in April 2025.[17][18] | ||||||
| Mid 2026[11] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | LeoSat × 49[19] | Unknown | LEO | Amazon (Amazon Leo) |
| First launch of Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) satellites on New Glenn to expand LEO internet constellation. Amazon Leo was also founded by Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos; however, the two companies are not directly connected. | ||||||
| Late 2027[20] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 2 | Unknown | TLI | NASA (CLPS) |
| Will carry the VIPER rover,[21] which was previously cancelled in 2024.[22] | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Blue Origin [@blueorigin] (January 14, 2025). "We're moving our NG-1 launch to no earlier than Thursday, January 16. The three-hour launch window opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 UTC)" (Tweet). Retrieved January 13, 2025 – via Twitter.
- ^ "GS1-SN001 Manifest". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
- ^ "Blue Ring Pathfinder Payload Ready for Launch; Blue Origin's New Glenn on Track for This Year". Blue Origin. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
- ^ a b Foust, Jeff (September 6, 2024). "NASA removes ESCAPADE from inaugural New Glenn launch". SpaceNews. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
- ^ Stranger, Harry (January 15, 2025). "Blue Origin launches New Glenn on flight NG-1 and makes orbit". NASASpaceFlight. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
- ^ Mike Wall (June 10, 2025). "2nd launch of Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket delayed to Aug. 15 at the earliest". SPACE.com.
- ^ Foust, Jeff (April 25, 2024). "NASA planning September launch of Mars smallsat mission on first New Glenn". SpaceNews. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ Warren, Haygen (November 9, 2025). "Blue Origin scrubs launch of ESCAPADE on second New Glenn mission". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- ^ "NASA scrubs ESCAPADE launch due to 'highly elevated solar activity'". Spaceflight Now. November 12, 2025. Retrieved November 12, 2025.
- ^ Malik, Tariq; Dinner, Josh (November 13, 2025). "Blue Origin lands huge New Glenn rocket booster for 1st time after acing Mars ESCAPADE launch for NASA". Space. Retrieved November 13, 2025.
- ^ a b c Berger, Eric (June 30, 2025). "The second launch of New Glenn will aim for Mars". Ars Technica. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
- ^ Berger, Eric (October 8, 2025). "Actually, we are going to tell you the odds of recovering New Glenn's second launch". Ars Technica. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
- ^ "Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) JEFO for Task Order CT-3". sam.gov. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
- ^ Luinstra, Martijn (January 26, 2025). "NASA's CLPS program accelerates as two landers head for the Moon". NASASpaceflight. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
- ^ "Pathfinder Mission 1". Next Spaceflight. September 6, 2024. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
- ^ "Elytra Mission 1 & Others". Retrieved June 11, 2025.
- ^ "Firefly Aerospace, Inc. Elytra-1 Application". Firefly Aerospace. April 29, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- ^ Werner, Debra (August 8, 2023). "NRO to conduct responsive space mission with Firefly and Xtenti". SpaceNews. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
- ^ "New Glenn". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
- ^ "NASA Selects Blue Origin to Deliver VIPER Rover to Moon's South Pole - NASA". Retrieved September 22, 2025.
- ^ "To the Moon with @NASA! Our second Blue Moon MK1 lander is already in production and well-suited to support the VIPER rover. Building on the learnings from our first MK1 lander, this mission is important for future lunar permanence and will teach us about the origin and distribution of water on the Moon". Twitter. September 19, 2025. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
- ^ Greshko, Michael. "NASA May Spend $800 Million to Not Send This Revolutionary Rover to the Moon". Scientific American. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
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