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.
Flight No. | Date and time (UTC) | Booster | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customer | Launch outcome | Booster landing |
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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] |
Date and time (UTC) | Booster | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customer |
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August 2025 [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. [7] [8] Second National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn. [9] | ||||||
Late Spring 2025 [10] [ citation needed ] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC-36 | ESCAPADE (2 spacecraft) | Unknown | Heliocentric to Areocentric | NASA |
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. [11] Delayed from 13 October 2024; it was originally intended to be launched on the debut flight of New Glenn. [4] | ||||||
2025 [12] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC-36 | KuiperSat × ? | 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. | ||||||
2025 [13] | Unknown | Cape Canaveral, LC-36 | Blue Moon (Mk1) | Unknown | TLI | Blue Origin |
Pathfinder Mission 2 |