CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Oct 17, 2026 - Blue Origin will invest $330 million to expand its launch facilities on Florida's Space Coast, the company announced this week.

The expansion will add two new launch and landing pads for the New Glenn heavy lift rocket at the company's Rocket Park campus. These will join two pads already under construction at the site.

The new pads will follow the design of Blue Origin's existing Launch Complex 36 facilities at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Company officials stated the completed upgrades will enable multiple rocket flights per week by the end of the decade, targeting an annual flight rate exceeding 100 launches from the location.

Impact Insight. Launch pad capacity is the primary hard bottleneck for high cadence orbital flight. Most operational orbital launch sites worldwide support fewer than 12 flights per year. Reliable high frequency launch capability reduces cost per kilogram to orbit, and creates reserve capacity for rapid response missions including planetary defence intercept launches.