Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
Type: Commercial
Successful Launch / Total Launch: 39 / 40
Number of launch attempt this year: 1
Launchers: New Shepard | New Glenn
Spacecraft: -
The New Glenn is a privately funded orbital launch vehicle in development by Blue Origin. New Glenn is described as a 7-meter-diameter (23 ft), two- or three-stage rocket.
Successful Launch / Total Launch : 2 / 2
Height: 98.0 m
Diameter: 7.0 m
Liftoff Mass: - t
Liftoff Thrust: 17126 kN
Cost: - €
LEO / GTO capacity: 45000 kg / 13000 kg
Apogee: - km
1st flight: 2025-01-16
AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched. This launch will feature 1 satellite, BlueBird 7/BlueBird Block 2 FM2.
Type: Communications
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Window: 2026-03 NDY
Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Launches from the pad this year / Total launches from the pad: 0 / 70
Total launches from the location: 1095
Timezone: America/New_York