New Glen just blew up, blue source.

According to information from IT House on 3 June, the Chief Executive Officer of Blue Origin, Dave Linp, plans to launch the new Glenn rocket again in 2026, despite the explosion last week.

Limpo indicated on Monday, local time, that the explosion had taken place at a company test site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and that most of the post-incident launcher infrastructure had been damaged better than expected. He also claimed that the new Glen rocket booster, which had previously carried out a mission in the launch site, and the three upper stages of the rocket were “both intact”.

He stated: “We will carry out the launch mission again before the end of this year”.

The accident was one of the largest and most significant failures since the creation of the Blue Origin, and it was radical to set a timetable for a return to flight in the following year. A number of people in the space industry had predicted that the new Glenn would not be able to re-launch the launch until 2027, after it had been widely recognized that the launch pad had been badly damaged and that it was the only launch site currently suitable for the new Glen rocket in its blue origin.

The IT House noted that the blue origin had not yet explained the cause of the explosion. The company is now in a special strategic position, 2016 SpaceX One Falcon 9 rocket completed its re-flight only a few months after the launcher exploded, and was able to achieve a quick re-entry because at the time of the accident another launcher was nearing completion. The project is still in its early stages of construction, although the Blue Origin is preparing a second launcher in Cape Canaveral.

A new Glenn rocket, based on its blue origin, is required for the Artemis series of landing missions planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This space enterprise, founded by Jeff Bessos, has fully shifted its focus to the Moon Launch Project and announced in January this year a moratorium on smaller new Shepard rocket space tourism for at least two years.

New Glen completed its first flight in January 2025, after years of research and development and several extensions. The whole of the first shot was bright, and the first attempt at the upper stage was successful, but the booster exploded on its way back to Earth. In the second launch in November of the same year, the blue origin launched two Mars probes into space and, for the first time, the booster landed on the ship. In April of this year, the recovered booster was again used for the third launch mission, with a failure of the upper stage and a complete loss of the customer payload on board -- an AST SpaceMobile satellite.

The blue origin had been planned for the fourth launch, for the Amazon Mass Launch Group satellite, another enterprise under the Bessos flag; the satellite had not been armed with arrows at the time of the explosion and was therefore protected from damage.

There was prior industry speculation that the blue origin could be returned to a more sized and push-up new Glenn improvement model, a programme that Linp denied on Monday. However, the company will optimize the way the rockets are trans-shipped to the launch pad and mounted: Before, the blue origin relied on a combination of trans-shipment and vertical “transport lift integration equipment” to complete the process, and Limp did not specify the specific form of the new programme.

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