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.
Future launches
edit| Date and time (UTC) | Booster | Launch site | Payload | Orbit | Customer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2024[1] | GS1-SN001 So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance[2] |
Cape Canaveral, LC-36 | Blue Ring | LEO | Blue Origin |
| Maiden/demonstration flight of New Glenn, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft. First National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn.[1] | |||||
| March 2025[3] | Cape Canaveral, LC-36 | Blue Moon (Mk1) | TLI | Blue Origin | |
| It will carry a prototype Blue Moon Lunar lander as Pathfinder Mission 1. Second National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn.[3] | |||||
| Spring 2025[1] | Cape Canaveral, LC-36 | ESCAPADE (2 spacecraft) | 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.[4] Delayed from 13 October 2024; it was originally intended to be launched on the debut flight of New Glenn.[1] | |||||
| 2025[5] | Cape Canaveral, LC-36 | KuiperSat × ? | LEO | Project Kuiper | |
| 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[6] | Cape Canaveral, LC-36 | Blue Moon (Mk1) | TLI | Blue Origin | |
| Pathfinder Mission 2 | |||||
References
edit- ^ a b c d Foust, Jeff (6 September 2024). "NASA removes ESCAPADE from inaugural New Glenn launch". SpaceNews. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ "GS1-SN001 Manifest". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Pathfinder Mission 1". Next Spaceflight. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ Foust, Jeff (25 April 2024). "NASA planning September launch of Mars smallsat mission on first New Glenn". SpaceNews. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
- ^ "Project Kuiper". Next Spaceflight. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ "Pathfinder Mission 1". Next Spaceflight. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.