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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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	Unknown	MEO	Blue Origin	Success	Failure (Jacklyn)
1	Maiden/demonstration flight of New Glenn, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft. First National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn.^[3] 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.^[4]

Date and time (UTC)	Booster	Launch site	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Customer
Late Spring 2025^[5]	Unknown	Cape Canaveral, LC-36	Blue Moon (Mk1)	Unknown	TLI	Blue Origin
Late Spring 2025^[5]	It will carry a prototype Blue Moon Lunar lander as Pathfinder Mission 1. Second National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn.^[6]
Late Spring 2025^[5]	Unknown	Cape Canaveral, LC-36	ESCAPADE (2 spacecraft)	Unknown	Heliocentric to Areocentric	NASA
Late Spring 2025^[5]	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.^[3]
2025^[8]	Unknown	Cape Canaveral, LC-36	KuiperSat × ?	Unknown	LEO	Project Kuiper
2025^[8]	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^[9]	Unknown	Cape Canaveral, LC-36	Blue Moon (Mk1)	Unknown	TLI	Blue Origin
2025^[9]	Pathfinder Mission 2

v t e Blue Origin
Vehicles	Charon^† Goddard^† PM2^‡ New Shepard Propulsion modules Tail 1 ^‡ Tail 2 ^† Tail 3 ^‡ Tail 4 Tail 5 Capsules Jules Verne ^† H.G. Wells First Step Kármán Line New Glenn Blue Moon ^* Blue Ring LPV LPV Jacklyn (ship)^† LPV1 Jacklyn (barge)
Rocket engines	BE-1 ^† BE-2 ^† BE-3 BE-4 BE-7 ^*
Notable spaceflights	New Glenn launches NS-15 NS-16 NS-17 NS-18 NS-19 NS-20 NS-21 NS-22 NS-23^X NS-24 NS-25 NS-26 NS-27 NS-28 NS-30
Facilities	Headquarters Kent, Washington Corn Ranch Launch Complex 36 Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 9 Vandenberg
Key people	Jeff Bezos (founder) Dave Limp (CEO) Jeffrey Ashby (chief of mission assurance) Nicholas Patrick (human integration architect)
Related	Commercial astronaut Billionaire space race Blue Origin Federation, LLC v. United States
* – denotes unflown vehicles or engines † – denotes retired vehicles, engines, products ‡ – denotes destroyed vehicles ^X – denotes failed flight