Blue Origin plans New Glenn launch and manufacturing expansion
The company plans more launch pads, production capacity and recovery ships in Florida to support a goal of more than 100 rocket launches a year.
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The company plans more launch pads, production capacity and recovery ships in Florida to support a goal of more than 100 rocket launches a year.
Blue Origin has announced plans to expand the Florida infrastructure supporting its New Glenn rocket, covering manufacturing, launch, mission preparation and recovery. The company aims eventually to launch more than 100 rockets a year from there, Ars Technica reported on October 23.
The plans build on two New Glenn launch pads already under construction at Cape Canaveral. Blue Origin also currently has one ship for recovering and returning the rocket’s first stage.
| Infrastructure | Company’s plan |
|---|---|
| Launch pads | Add two New Glenn pads beyond the two already under construction. |
| Upper-stage factory | Build capacity for up to 150 upper stages—the rocket sections that operate after the first stage—for a larger New Glenn variant. |
| Recovery ships | Procure two additional ships to recover and return New Glenn’s first stage. |
| Customer facility | Add four payload bays: spaces for preparing customers’ spacecraft or other cargo, allowing several missions to be processed simultaneously. |
These investments are centered on one goal: building the capacity to support more missions, more reliably, and more efficiently.
The company targets summer 2027 to complete facilities intended to support the heavier-lift New Glenn 9x4 and production of up to 150 upper stages a year.
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The launch and manufacturing figures describe planned capacity, not achieved launch rates or production output.
Blue Origin plans to build the four-bay customer facility in conjunction with the US Space Force, creating space to prepare multiple missions at the same time.