Blue Origin certainly has ambitious launch targets for New Glenn
Blue Origin is aggressively scaling New Glenn rocket production, targeting 60 units annually by 2028 and 100 by 2029, supported by significant infrastructure investments including a new 800,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Florida. While these targets are ambitious relative to current performance (2 launches in 2025 vs. 8 planned), the company's sustained investment and engineering progress signal a major shift in commercial space launch capacity that will reshape satellite deployment, cloud infrastructure, and supply chain logistics. IT leaders should anticipate that dramatically increased launch cadence will enable new satellite-based services (connectivity, imaging, positioning) and distributed computing models that could fundamentally alter enterprise infrastructure strategies within 3-5 years.
Earlier this week, Blue Origin posted a job opportunity for a "senior manager" to oversee tank fabrication for "Quattro," and the description contained some intriguing information. "As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, and engineers you will be the Senior Manager of Gen 2.0 Tank Fabrication, and will own the production execution of the most structurally complex and schedule-critical subsystem on the vehicle—the propellant tank," the job posting states. Quattro is the company's nickname for a more powerful upper stage for the New Glenn rocket, which will feature four BE-3U engines instead of the two currently powering the booster. Blue Origin revealed plans for this more powerful variant of New Glenn, 9x4 (nine first stage engines, and four upper stage engines), last November.Read full article Comments
