Blue Moon Pathfinder

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Robotic Exploration

Low Earth Orbit Launch Complex 36A Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
GS1-SN002 - Jacklyn

First flight of Blue Origin's Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander, MK1-SN001 "Endurance".

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • June 19, 2026, 5:50 a.m.

NET early 2027.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 30, 2026, 12:43 a.m.

Reverted back to NET 2026 due to New Glenn GS1 booster static fire explosion on May 28.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 19, 2026, 11:11 a.m.

NET late summer.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 7, 2026, 3:25 p.m.

Moved back to NET 2026 based on lander integration and testing progress.


Cosmic_Penguin • Nov. 9, 2025, 4:03 p.m.

NET January.


New Glenn

Family:
Configuration:

The New Glenn is a privately funded orbital launch vehicle in development by Blue Origin. New Glenn is described as a 7-meter-diameter (23 ft), two- or three-stage rocket.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    98.0 m
  • Diameter
    7.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    7.0 m
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
    17126.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    New Glenn
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    New Glenn
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    45000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    13000.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


GS1-SN002

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 13, 2025
Last Flight: April 19, 2026
Flights: 2
Landings Attempted: 2
Landings Successful: 2
Previous GS1-SN002 Flights

Landing Information

New Glenn booster GS1-SN002 will attempt to land on Jacklyn after its second flight.

Landing Attempt Confirmed

Blue Origin

Blue Origin

(BO)

CEO: Jeff Bezos Founded: 2000 Successes: 39 Failures: 2 Pending: 4

Agency Type:

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.

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Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Launch Complex 36A


Long March 6A
Success
11 hours, 10 minutes ago
TJSW-27A & B
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

2 Chinese classified satellites claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.


Long March 7A
Success
1 day ago
Tianlian 3-01
201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

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Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 20 hours ago
Starlink Group 17-51
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Starship
Success
5 days, 13 hours ago
Flight 13
Orbital Launch Pad 2 - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

13th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Second flight of Starship V3. For the first time, Starship will carry 20 V3 Starlink sa…


Kinetica 1
Success
6 days, 12 hours ago
5 satellites
Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Share-ride of 5 commercial Earth observation and technology demonstration satellites to SSO, including SpaceTY's TY-48. Details TBD.


Long March 3B/E
Success
1 week ago
Tianlian 2-06
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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Gravity-1
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
9 satellites
Yellow Sea (launch location 5) - Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

Carried 9 satellites on a share-ride to sun-synchronous orbit. Details TBD.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
MRV-1
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
Starlink Group 17-39
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Soyuz 2.1b
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
16 x Rassvet-3
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Payload identities uncertain. Batch of 16 Rassvet-3 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Russian Byuro-1440 (Bureau 1440) conste…