{"id":21317,"date":"2025-11-09T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-sets-its-eyes-on-mars-with-second-new-glenn-launch\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:29:32","slug":"blue-origin-sets-its-eyes-on-mars-with-second-new-glenn-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-sets-its-eyes-on-mars-with-second-new-glenn-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin sets its eyes on Mars with second New Glenn launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/11\/gallery_newglenn2-rollout.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1400\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/11\/gallery_newglenn2-rollout.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/11\/gallery_newglenn2-rollout.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/11\/gallery_newglenn2-rollout.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/11\/gallery_newglenn2-rollout.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"43810\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2025\/11\/08\/blue-origin-sets-its-eyes-on-mars-with-second-new-glenn-launch\/gallery_newglenn2-rollout\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/11\/gallery_newglenn2-rollout.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"1400,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"gallery_newglenn2-rollout\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: Blue Origin<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/11\/gallery_newglenn2-rollout.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: Blue Origin\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue Origin\u2019s second New Glenn mission, NG-2, is finally on the launch pad and ready for its next flight. This could be a pivotal moment for the company as it is full of multiple firsts and features a NASA mission to Mars.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-43809\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue Origin\u2018s NG-2 mission will be the company\u2019s second New Glenn launch, the first mission with a customer\u2019s payload, and the first interplanetary mission. NG-2 will also reattempt booster recovery, something it attempted and failed at during its first flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Glenn has been in the works for a long time. Blue Origin took its time to make sure its first launch was a success, similar to what we\u2019ve seen from legacy contractors like ULA. This differs from SpaceX\u2018s mentality of \u201cmove fast and break things,\u201d a popular Silicon Valley approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With that said, there is little worry from the industry of New Glenn\u2019s second launch being anything other than a success. Of course, there are always concerns with newer rockets, but given how well it performed on its first flight back in January of this year, NG-2 has good odds.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-43809',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On board New Glen\u2019s second launch will be NASA\u2018s ESCAPADE mission to Mars. The two spacecraft missions will be a tech demonstrator for low-cost planetary exploration. The two spacecraft are only about 500 kg in mass, a quarter the weight of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and are built by Rocket Lab, a relative newcomer to spacecraft manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NG-2 is set to lift off from LC-36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station no earlier than November 9 at 2:45 PM ET. The launch window will remain open until 5:11 PM ET.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-will-blue-stick-the-landing-space-explored-s-take\">Will Blue stick the landing? \u2013 Space Explored\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest question with NG-2 is the success of the New Glenn booster after ascent. Once it finishes launching ESCAPADES and the rocket\u2019s second stage out of the bulk of Earth\u2019s atmosphere, the booster will set its target on Jacklyn, a drone ship placed out in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similar to SpaceX, New Glenn plans to reuse its first stage by propulsively landing it on a drone ship downrange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no expectation of success with this objective, as they would only be the second company to even succeed at such a feat if they landed the booster. The booster\u2019s recovery is secondary to its mission, and unlike SpaceX, Blue Origin wouldn\u2019t see any massive delays if it didn\u2019t stick the landing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue Origin does sound pretty confident in the ability to land its booster on the NG-2 mission. Given it has one attempt under its belt and almost a year of time to work on a fix, the chances are high for a success, but I still wouldn\u2019t be betting money on one just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}