Transport & space · November 2025

New Glenn booster landing

A second company lands an orbital-class booster.

Blue Origin's New Glenn launched NASA's twin ESCAPADE Mars probes and landed its first stage on the ship Jacklyn, the first non-SpaceX orbital-class booster to land propulsively. The same booster flew again in April 2026.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia Source

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

Reusable orbital rocket 2015

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Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Objects launched into space Latest: 4.51k per year (2025) Source: Our World in Data

Payloads in low Earth orbit Latest: 14.5k objects (2025) Source: Our World in Data