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Dave Limp

Dave Limp

Chief Executive Officer, Blue Origin

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With our first refurbished booster we elected to replace all seven engines and test out a few upgrades including a thermal protection system on one of the engine nozzles. We plan to use the engines we flew for NG-2 on future flights.

We have plenty of hardware to do that — referring to his goal of eight to 12 New Glenn flights in 2026, in a Bloomberg Television interview

While we are pleased with the nominal booster recovery, we clearly didn't deliver the mission our customer wanted, and our team expects.

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Blue Origin proves New Glenn booster reuse, enters the reusable heavy-lift race

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Managing New Glenn's first payload loss and FAA grounding; leading return-to-flight effort

Blue Origin flew a previously used New Glenn rocket booster for the first time on April 19, 2026, becoming only the second company ever to reuse an orbital-class rocket stage. The booster, named 'Never Tell Me the Odds,' first flew in November 2025 and landed successfully again on the drone ship Jacklyn roughly ten minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. But the milestone was immediately overshadowed: one engine on the rocket's expendable upper stage did not produce enough thrust during its second burn, leaving AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite stranded in an orbit far too low for the satellite's own electric thrusters to correct.

Updated Apr 21