List of New Glenn launches
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 16 January 2025.
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Launch sites
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Launch outcomes
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- Loss before launch
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Booster landings
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- Drone-ship failure
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Past launches
2025
Flight No. |
Date and time (UTC) | Booster | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customer | Launch outcome |
Booster landing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 January 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 13 January 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] | |||||||||
Future launches
Launches are expected to take place "no earlier than" (NET) the listed date.
| Date and time (UTC) | Booster | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025[6] | GS1-SN002 Never Tell Me The Odds |
Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | ESCAPADE (2 spacecraft) | Unknown | Heliocentric to Areocentric | NASA |
| Second National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn. Will carry the ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission for NASA, which aims to investigate Mars' magnetosphere. New Glenn will deploy two spacecraft on a direct interplanetary trajectory. ESCAPADE is part of NASA's low-cost SIMPLEx program. NASA will pay Blue Origin about $20 million for the launch.[7] Delayed from 13 October 2024; it was originally intended to be launched on the debut flight of New Glenn.[4] | ||||||
| Late 2025[6] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | Elytra Mission 1 and others[8] | 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.[9][10] | ||||||
| Early 2026[6] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | Blue Moon Mark 1 Pathfinder | 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.[11][12][13] Unclear whether this is a rideshare on Elytra-1 or if there is another launch so soon. | ||||||
| Mid 2026[6] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | KuiperSat × 61 (KN‑01)[14] | Unknown | LEO | Amazon (Kuiper Systems) |
| First launch of KuiperSat satellites on New Glenn to expand Project Kuiper internet constellation. Project Kuiper was also founded by Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos; however, the two companies are not directly connected. | ||||||
| 2026[15] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | Blue Moon (Mk1) | Unknown | TLI | Blue Origin |
| Pathfinder Mission 2 | ||||||
| 2026+ | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC‑36 | KuiperSat × 61 (KN-02 to KN-12)[14] | Unknown | LEO | Amazon (Kuiper Systems) |
| Satellite internet constellation. Remaining 11 of the 12 currently scheduled New Glenn Kuiper launches. | ||||||
References
- ^ Blue Origin [@blueorigin] (14 January 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 13 January 2025 – via Twitter.
- ^ "GS1-SN001 Manifest". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Blue Ring Pathfinder Payload Ready for Launch; Blue Origin's New Glenn on Track for This Year". Blue Origin. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
- ^ a b Foust, Jeff (6 September 2024). "NASA removes ESCAPADE from inaugural New Glenn launch". SpaceNews. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ Stranger, Harry (15 January 2025). "Blue Origin launches New Glenn on flight NG-1 and makes orbit". NASASpaceFlight. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d Berger, Eric (30 June 2025). "The second launch of New Glenn will aim for Mars". Ars Technica. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ^ Foust, Jeff (25 April 2024). "NASA planning September launch of Mars smallsat mission on first New Glenn". SpaceNews. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
- ^ "Elytra Mission 1 & Others". Retrieved 11 June 2025.
- ^ "Firefly Aerospace, Inc. Elytra-1 Application". Firefly Aerospace. 29 April 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ Werner, Debra (8 August 2023). "NRO to conduct responsive space mission with Firefly and Xtenti". SpaceNews. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ "Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) JEFO for Task Order CT-3". sam.gov. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
- ^ Luinstra, Martijn (26 January 2025). "NASA's CLPS program accelerates as two landers head for the Moon". NASASpaceflight. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
- ^ "Pathfinder Mission 1". Next Spaceflight. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ a b "New Glenn". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
- ^ "Pathfinder Mission 1". Next Spaceflight. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.