Blue Origin is Targeting NET 15th of August for the 2nd launch of New Glenn
New Glenn’s second mission will take place NET August 15th. Following in the footsteps of our first booster, we’ve chosen the name “Never Tell Me The Odds” for Tail 2. One of our key mission objectives will be to land and recover the booster. This will take a little bit of luck…
— Dave Limp (@davill) June 9, 2025
New Glenn’s second mission will take place NET August 15th. Following in the footsteps of our first booster, we’ve chosen the name “Never Tell Me The Odds” for Tail 2. One of our key mission objectives will be to land and recover the booster. This will take a little bit of luck…
— Dave Limp (@davill) June 9, 2025
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I read the “15th” and was excited until I saw “August.”
So much for “late spring” that Limp had been mentioning up till this point.
The mass firings after the first New Glenn launch when BO got rid of about 10% of their workforce in February probably didn’t help things.
I wonder what are the odds for recovering the booster on the second launch. Those New Glenn boosters are expensive to build and it would quickly become cost prohibitive to keep tossing them on a booster’s first launch.