Blue Origin has invested more than $3 billion in facilities and infrastructure across Florida as it builds manufacturing, payload processing, launch and recovery capacity designed to support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade.
The company said more than 5,000 employees and 500 Florida suppliers currently support its operations. Blue Origin’s manufacturing and operations footprint has more than doubled over the past several years and now spans more than 20 sites across Brevard and Orange counties.
At Rocket Park near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Blue Origin is expanding its 1.37-million-square-foot manufacturing campus to support higher production rates for New Glenn. A $330 million expansion now underway will support manufacturing of the New Glenn 9×4 second stage and, when completed in summer 2027, is designed to enable annual production of up to 150 upper stages.
The company is also investing in automated machining, welding, material handling and inspection tools, along with expanded fairing preparation, chemical processing, tooling and storage. Blue Origin said it is increasing in-house manufacturing capacity while continuing to work with outside suppliers to create a more resilient production pipeline.
To prepare multiple missions simultaneously, Blue Origin is building a customer integration facility with the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The facility is designed with four payload bays, two encapsulation bays and a dedicated multi-manifest processing area and will support both New Glenn 7×2 and 9×4 vehicles, including national security missions.
A new vertical integration facility is also under construction to support New Glenn 9×4. At Launch Complex 36, Blue Origin is restoring LC-36A following an anomaly earlier in 2026 and building LC-36B as the operational home for New Glenn 9×4.
Blue Origin recently filed an Environmental Assessment seeking to increase the permitted launch rate at LC-36 from 12 to 50 launches per year. The company also plans to add additional New Glenn launch pads on the Space Coast beyond the two pads at LC-36, using a repeatable design and construction approach intended to increase capacity and resiliency.
The company is expanding reusable booster recovery infrastructure as well. Port Canaveral is home to Jacklyn, New Glenn’s sea-based landing platform, and Blue Origin said work is underway on two additional landing platforms. Its vertical integration facility will also process recovered first stages for inspection, refurbishment and future missions.
Blue Origin’s Florida presence also includes teams in Cocoa, Melbourne, Orlando and Titusville supporting fabrication, tooling, thermal protection systems, logistics, materials operations and hardware for the Lunar Permanence program. Since 2019, the company’s Club for the Future nonprofit has reached nearly 700,000 students and 65,000 educators in Florida through STEAM-focused programming.
