Blue Origin targets multiple weekly New Glenn launches

Blue Origin on Friday morning, October 16, 2026 posted a website update on Florida expansion for New Glenn. Ian Richardson, senior vice president of operations, wrote that these investments are centered on one goal: building the capacity to support more missions, more reliably, and more efficiently. He wrote that as we look ahead, this infrastructure is designed to support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade. Plans include two additional launch pads beyond two already under construction at Cape Canaveral, a manufacturing facility to produce up to 150 upper stages for a larger New Glenn variant, two more landing ships beyond the existing Jacklyn, and a customer integration facility built with the US Space Force with four payload bays. The company has invested about $3 billion in Florida facilities to date, has more than 5,000 employees and 500 suppliers in the state, spans more than 20 sites across Brevard and Orange Counties, and has launched to orbit twice. Contested: none found on the expansion figures. Blue Origin is rebuilding LC-36A after a late-May BE-4 engine problem destroyed a vehicle and damaged the pad. It aims for return-to-flight before the end of 2026; coverage calls that unlikely and a return more likely in the first few months of 2027. Timing depends on repairs and readiness. Longer-term aim is 150 rockets a year from Florida.