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NASA Wants to Speed Up By Going to a Once a Year Blue Origin Launches?
October 21, 2025 by Brian Wang

As of October 21, 2025, Blue Origin has conducted only one New Glenn launch to date. The maiden flight occurred on January 16, 2025, from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-36, successfully reaching orbit with a prototype Blue Ring payload, though the first stage was lost during reentry.

The second Blue Origin launch of New Glenn is taking nearly a year. NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) Mars mission is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than November 9, 2025, aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This would mark a cadence of roughly 10 months between launches so far, reflecting the vehicle’s early development phase rather than operational frequency.

The ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission—two NASA Mars orbiters studying the planet’s magnetosphere—was originally scheduled for launch on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket in October 2024. Blue Origin New Glenn is over one year late for the ESCAPADE mission.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/10/n ... nches.html

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Blue Origin Has a Light Riding on November New Glenn Flight
October 24, 2025 by Brian Wang

Blue Origin has a critical next flight in November for New Glenn. It will determine if they have a chance for 4 flights in 2026 or 8. They have to be able to cleanly fly and land the booster stage. This will determine if they can reuse the booster every 6 months. Any flight problems will lead to an FAA investigation that will delay third launch by 3-6 months. Here we go over the engine production rate.

Blue Origin is scaling BE-4 manufacturing aggressively at their Huntsville, AL facility to support New Glenn and ULA’s Vulcan. The current production rate is ~50 engines per year and will ramp to 100-150 by late 2026. This supports ~7-14 New Glenn boosters annually at full tilt plus Vulcan’s 2 per flight.

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Blue Origin Launches New Glenn NG2 – LANDED THE BOOSTER
November 13, 2025 by Brian Wang

Blue Origin had to scrub the New Glenn NG2 twice. Launched today. Good Separation.
Relit engines and coming in for landing.

They counted down to 20 seconds about an hour ago. Reset the clock to 34 minutes. Counted down again and had a hold at about 14 minutes and reset the clock again.

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Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
Sean O'Kane
1:15 PM PST · November 13, 2025

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/11/b ... nutes.html
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has landed the booster of its New Glenn mega-rocket on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean on just its second attempt — an accomplishment that will help the new system become an option to send larger payloads to space.

After a number of delays, New Glenn finally took off from Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Thursday at around 3:55 p.m. ET. At about four minutes into the flight, the second stage separated and headed further into space, while the New Glenn booster began its journey back towards Earth. Roughly 10 minutes into the flight, the booster touched down on the drone ship.

Blue Origin had attempted to bring the New Glenn booster back on the rocket’s first flight in January. But the booster exploded before it had a chance to land on the drone ship.

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Blue Origin Will Increase New Glenn Thrust 15-25% and Make Rocket Bigger
November 20, 2025 by Brian Wang

Blue Origin is making huge improvements to the New Glenn rocket. In early 2026, there will be 15% more first-stage thrust and 25% upper-stage boost starting with the NG-3 flight in early 2026.

They unveiled a 9×4 super-heavy version capable of over 70 tons to low Earth orbit, ideal for mega-constellations and lunar trips.

New Glenn will reuse the booster stage for a super heavy payload class rocket.

The new Glenn’s roadmap is a new super-heavy class rocket. The new Glenn 9×4 will have nine rockets for the booster and 4 for the upper stage. The vehicle carries over 70 metric tons to low-Earth orbit, over 14 metric tons direct to geosynchronous orbit, and over 20 metric tons to trans-lunar injection. The 9×4 vehicle will feature a larger 8.7-meter fairing.

Both vehicles the 9×4 and the current variant, 7×2, will serve the market at the same time.

Total thrust for the seven BE-4 booster engines is increasing from 3.9 million lbf (17,219 kN) to 4.5 million lbf (19,928 kN). BE-4 has already demonstrated 625,000 lbf on the test stand at current propellant conditions and will achieve 640,000 lbf later this year, with propellant subcooling increasing the current thrust capability from the existing 550,000 lbf.

The total thrust of the two BE-3Us powering New Glenn’s upper stage is increasing from the original design of 320,000 lbf (1,423 kN) to 400,000 lbf (1,779 kN) thrust over the next few missions. BE-3U has already demonstrated 211,658 lbf on the test stand.

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