Blue Origin targets weekly New Glenn flights by decade’s end

Blue Origin is expanding its Florida manufacturing, launch, payload-processing and booster-recovery infrastructure to support multiple New Glenn rocket flights per week by the end of the decade, an operating target the company says its facilities are being designed to enable. The plans include new launch pads, a larger factory, a payload-processing complex developed with the U.S. Space Force and additional landing vessels for reusable boosters. The company has invested more than $3 billion in Florida facilities, according to Ian Richardson, its senior vice president of operations. A $330 million expansion at Blue Origin’s Rocket Park manufacturing campus is targeted for completion in summer 2027. Richardson said the project would support annual production of up to 150 upper stages for the New Glenn 94 configuration. The campus, near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, is also receiving new production equipment and expanded capabilities for preparing rocket hardware. The company is developing facilities intended to let teams prepare multiple missions at once. A payload-processing complex being built with the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is planned to include...