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 January 16, 2025.

Statistics

Rocket configurations

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'26

•   New Glenn (new)
•   New Glenn (reused)

Launch sites

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'26

•   Cape Canaveral, LC‑36
•   Vandenberg, SLC-9

Launch outcomes

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2

3

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'26

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•   Loss before launch
•   Loss during flight
•   Partial failure
•   Success
•   Planned

Booster landings

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'26

•   Drone-ship failure
•   Drone-ship success
•   No attempt

Past launches

2025

Flight No.	Date and time (UTC)	Booster	Launch site	Payload	Payload mass (kg)	Orbit	Customer	Launch outcome	Booster landing
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]

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 (kg)	Orbit	Customer
November 9, 2025 [6] [7]	GS1-SN002 Never Tell Me The Odds [8]	Cape Canaveral, LC‑36	ESCAPADE (2 spacecraft) and a payload from Viasat	1,070	Sun-Earth L2 to Areocentric	NASA
	Will carry the ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission for NASA, which aims to investigate Mars' magnetosphere and a technology demonstration payload from Viasat. 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. [9] Delayed from October 13, 2024; it was originally intended to be launched on the debut flight of New Glenn. [4] Second National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn.
January 2026 [10]	GS1-SN002-2 Never Tell Me The Odds (planned) [6]	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. [11] [12] [13] Unclear whether this is a rideshare on Elytra-1 or if there is another launch so soon.
2026 [10]	Unknown	Cape Canaveral, LC‑36	Elytra Mission 1 and others [14]	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. [15] [16]
Mid 2026 [10]	Unknown	Cape Canaveral, LC‑36	KuiperSat × 49 [17]	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.
Late 2027 [18]	Unknown	Cape Canaveral, LC‑36	Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 2	Unknown	TLI	NASA (CLPS)
	Will carry the VIPER rover, [19] which was previously cancelled in 2024. [20]

References

1. 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.
2. "GS1-SN001 Manifest". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
3. "Blue Ring Pathfinder Payload Ready for Launch; Blue Origin's New Glenn on Track for This Year". Blue Origin. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
4. Foust, Jeff (September 6, 2024). "NASA removes ESCAPADE from inaugural New Glenn launch". SpaceNews . Retrieved September 7, 2024.
5. Stranger, Harry (January 15, 2025). "Blue Origin launches New Glenn on flight NG-1 and makes orbit". NASASpaceFlight. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
6. 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.
7. Foust, Jeff [@jeff_foust] (September 24, 2025). "NASA's Tim Dunn says on the IMAP launch webcast that the ESCAPADE launch is scheduled for the end of October or early November on the 2nd Blue Origin New Glenn" (Tweet). Retrieved September 24, 2025– via Twitter.
8. Mike Wall (June 10, 2025). "2nd launch of Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket delayed to Aug. 15 at the earliest". SPACE.com.
9. Foust, Jeff (April 25, 2024). "NASA planning September launch of Mars smallsat mission on first New Glenn". SpaceNews . Retrieved April 26, 2024.
10. Berger, Eric (June 30, 2025). "The second launch of New Glenn will aim for Mars". Ars Technica . Retrieved June 30, 2025.
11. "Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) JEFO for Task Order CT-3". sam.gov. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
12. Luinstra, Martijn (January 26, 2025). "NASA's CLPS program accelerates as two landers head for the Moon". NASASpaceflight . Retrieved March 12, 2025.
13. "Pathfinder Mission 1". Next Spaceflight. September 6, 2024. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
14. "Elytra Mission 1 & Others" . Retrieved June 11, 2025.
15. "Firefly Aerospace, Inc. Elytra-1 Application". Firefly Aerospace. April 29, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
16. Werner, Debra (August 8, 2023). "NRO to conduct responsive space mission with Firefly and Xtenti". SpaceNews . Retrieved September 17, 2023.
17. "New Glenn". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
18. "NASA Selects Blue Origin to Deliver VIPER Rover to Moon's South Pole - NASA" . Retrieved September 22, 2025.
19. "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.
20. Greshko, Michael. "NASA May Spend $800 Million to Not Send This Revolutionary Rover to the Moon". Scientific American. Retrieved September 7, 2024.