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Maiden Flight

New Glenn, flown by Blue Origin

New Glenn lifting off with the Maiden Flight mission
Image via The Space Devs.

This was Blue Origin's 1st launch of 2025, and its 29th in all.

Counting every operator, it was the 11th orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2025, and the first from Launch Complex 36A.

Launched
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, 7:03 a.m. UTC
Window
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. UTC
Launch site
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Rocket
New Glenn
Operator
Blue Origin
Weather
40% favorableThick cloud layers rule

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The mission

Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, consisting of communications array, power systems, and a flight computer affixed to a secondary payload adapter ring, remaining attached to the 2nd stage. This launch will serve as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight. Target orbit is 2400 x 19300 km at 30° inclination.

Type
Test flight
Destination
Medium Earth orbit

The rocket

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.

Height
98 m
Built by
Blue Origin
First flew
January 16, 2025
Lifts to low Earth orbit
45,000 kg
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Lifts to geostationary transfer
13,000 kg
Diameter
7 m
Thrust at liftoff
17,126 kN
Stages
2

3 flights, 2 of them successful. 2 boosters brought back from 3 attempts.

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The operator

Blue Origin

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.

Sector
Commercial
Based in
USA
Founded
2000
Run by
Jeff Bezos, CEO

41 launches so far, 39 of them successful.

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The launch site

It went up from Launch Complex 36A at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.

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