New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing its primary objective.

New Glenn’s seven BE-4 engines ignited on January 16, 2025, at 2:03 am EST (0703 UTC) from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The second stage is in its final orbit following two successful burns of the BE-3U engines. The Blue Ring Pathfinder is receiving data and performing well. We lost the booster during descent. 

New Glenn is foundational to advancing customers’ critical missions. The vehicle underpins its efforts to establish sustained human presence on the Moon, harness in-space resources, provide multi-mission, multi-orbit mobility through Blue Ring, and establish destinations in low Earth orbit. Future New Glenn missions will carry the Blue Moon Mark 1 cargo lander and the Mark 2 crewed lander to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program.

The program has several vehicles in production and multiple years of orders. Customers include NASA, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, AST SpaceMobile, and several telecommunications providers. Blue Origin is certifying New Glenn with the US Space Force for the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program to meet emerging national security objectives.