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Blue Origin: New Glenn & Blue Moon: announced vs achieved

Blue Origin · last verified 2026-10-02

Blue Origin builds the New Glenn heavy-lift rocket and the Blue Moon lunar landers, including the Mark 2 crewed lander NASA funds for Artemis. New Glenn has not flown since a May 28, 2026 pad explosion.

Claims tracked
3
Achieved
1
On track
1
Slipped
1
Dropped
0
Unknown
0
Met on original date
0% (0 of 2 decided)
Average delay where late
26 months

Timeline of claims

Timeline key: dot = announced, diamond = original target, coloured dot = outcome or current target, dashed line = today.

Blue Origin: 2020

AchievedBlue Origin: New Glenn & Blue Moon

New Glenn first launch in 2020 (a 2017 report said the company remained on course for a 2020 debut).

Announced
(month from the article date; day not verified)
Original target
2020
Achieved
Jan 16, 2025
Months late
Delivered 49 months after the original target
Source confidence
Reputable secondary source
Last verified

NG-1 reached orbit on Jan 16, 2025 (the booster was not recovered). Later announced target: late 2022 (SpaceNews). Exact announcement day not verified.

Blue Origin: End of 2026

On trackBlue Origin: New Glenn & Blue Moon

Blue Origin will fly New Glenn again before the end of 2026 (CEO Dave Limp, after the May 28 pad explosion).

Short quote: “We will fly again before the end of this year”

Announced
Original target
End of 2026
Months late
Not applicable
Source confidence
Reputable secondary source
Last verified

Company statement; no launch date or FAA clearance was found as of the evidence date. The cause was reported as a BE-4 main-oxygen-valve anomaly.

Blue Origin: Later in 2026

SlippedBlue Origin: New Glenn & Blue Moon

First Blue Moon Mark 1 lander ('Endurance') launching later in 2026.

Announced
Original target
Later in 2026
Current target
March 2027 (Q1 2027 (end of quarter assumed))
Months late
Current target is 3 months after the original
Source confidence
Reputable secondary source
Last verified

Secondary summary of a Blue Origin executive's July 6, 2026 remarks; the primary SpaceNews article cited there was not fetched. 'Later this year' is approximated as Dec 2026, so the slip is a minimum.

In the launch feed

In T-ZERO's current launch feed (about 100 upcoming and a few recent launches), Blue Origin matches 2 launches: 2 upcoming and 0 recent.

Counts come from the same Launch Library 2 data as the rest of the site. The feed is a rolling window, so these are not all-time totals.

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