Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced Friday that it plans major upgrades to its Florida launch facility, with the goal of supporting multiple weekly flights by the end of 2010.
The company plans to add two more launch pads and landing pads to Newglen, a partially reusable heavy-lift rocket. Blue Origin said in a blog post that a $330 million expansion to Cape Canaveral’s Rocket Park campus, scheduled for completion in summer 2027, will allow it to manufacture up to 150 New Glenn rocket upper stages a year.
“These investments are focused on one goal: building the ability to support more missions more reliably and more efficiently,” Ian Richardson, Blue Origin’s senior vice president of operations, said in a post. “Looking to the future, this infrastructure is designed to support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade.”
Blue Origin is working to accelerate the pace of its launches in a bid to compete with its biggest rival, Elon Musk. space xfor commercial and government customers.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan last month that the company’s first round of external funding was “oversubscribed.” The company raised $10 billion in this round, valuing it at $140 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The company is also recovering from a setback in May when one of its New Glenn rockets exploded on its launch pad. Blue Origin is actively working to restore the launch pad with the goal of returning New Glenn to flight by the end of 2026.
As part of the upgrade, Blue Origin said it is building a new customer integration facility with the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that, when operational, will allow it to “ready for multiple missions simultaneously.”
Richardson said Blue Origin has invested more than $3 billion in infrastructure and facilities in Florida and currently has more than 5,000 employees in more than 20 locations across Brevard and Orange counties in the state.
The space industry is also suffering from a lack of launch capacity after SpaceX stopped offering commercial rides on its flagship Falcon 9 rocket in favor of its larger Starship rocket. This has spurred a surge in investment, with $92.5 billion invested in commercial space in the first three quarters of 2026, according to a report this week from venture capital firm Space Capital.
Blue Origin, SpaceX and other rocket providers are seeing increased demand from companies and governments looking to put satellites into orbit. Blue Origin and SpaceX both have their own satellite internet services; Amazonis in the process of launching its entire constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites in the Leo constellation.
SpaceX’s Starlink currently dominates the market with more than 11,000 satellites in orbit.
