New Glenn’s second mission will take place NET (No earlier than) August 15th. They have 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 and a lot of excellent execution. Blue Orgin is on track to produce eight GS2s this year, and the one we’ll fly on this second mission was hot-fired in April.
There are other reports that the second New Glenn launch will more realistically launch in September. This may well be the only other New Glenn launch this year.
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
On May 28, chief executive Limp emailed his entire team to announce an “organizational update.” As part of this, the company’s senior vice president of engines, Linda Cova, was retiring. Jarrett Jones, the senior vice president running the New Glenn program, was stepping away from his role and taking a well deserved year off starting on August 15.
Amazon, is making good progress on building Project Kuiper satellites as nearly two-dozen spacecraft for the company’s third operational launch have already arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The amazon Kuiper satellites will launch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.
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Pretty sad when you remember that they were founded earlier than SpaceX, and better funded. But they’re finally getting there.