CNBC says Blue Origin is targeting multiple New Glenn flights per week by the end of the decade.
CNBC reports Blue Origin plans a $330 million expansion in Florida to ramp up New Glenn launches. The company says it is targeting multiple flights per week by the end of the decade.
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Blue Origin is putting $330 million into an expansion of its Rocket Park manufacturing complex in Florida, part of a broader effort to turn New Glenn into a frequently flying heavy-lift rocket. The company says the project is scheduled for completion in summer 2027 and could support production of up to 150 upper stages a year for the larger New Glenn 9x4 configuration.
Blue Origin plans $330 million Florida expansion to ramp New Glenn launches
The expansion sits inside a Florida buildout that Blue Origin values at more than $3 billion. The company said Friday that it now employs more than 5,000 people across over 20 sites in the state, with about 500 Florida suppliers contributing to its launch business.
Manufacturing is only one piece of the plan. Blue Origin's customer integration facility has four payload-processing bays and two encapsulation bays, which are intended to let teams prepare several missions at once. A second launchpad, LC-36B, is being built for New Glenn 9x4, while LC-36A is under repair after a May hot-fire accident.
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The company has also asked regulators to raise the permitted launch rate at Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 36 from 12 to 50 flights a year. It says more launchpads and landing zones are planned, along with two additional sea-based platforms for recovering New Glenn's reusable first stage. Together, those projects are designed to support multiple launches each week by the end of the decade.
That cadence remains a target. New Glenn has been grounded since the May explosion damaged Blue Origin's only operational launchpad, and Reuters reported that the rocket is now expected to return in early 2027.
The setback followed an April mission that placed an AST SpaceMobile satellite into the wrong orbit; the satellite later fell back to Earth. Blue Origin is therefore building for a sharp increase in production while it still has to restore the launch system and demonstrate that New Glenn can fly reliably enough to sustain the schedule.
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