Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp says the company will launch again before the end of 2026, less than a week after New Glenn exploded at its Florida launch site. Writing on X, Limp shared that a preliminary survey of the LC-36A pad revealed good news: the propellant farm, oxygen tanks, liquid hydrogen tanks, LNG tanks, and water tower all survived the May 28 failure intact.

Those tanks are long-lead items, so their survival removes a major bottleneck from the rebuild. Blue Origin will reconstruct the damaged pad for the 7×2 variant of New Glenn rather than pivoting to LC-36B, which supports the larger 9×4 configuration. The transporter-erector was destroyed beyond repair, but Limp said Blue Origin had already been developing an alternative vertical operations concept and will skip straight to that system.

The roughly six-month turnaround signals urgency. Blue Origin wants its booster flying again quickly, which may also be aimed at quieting talk about using SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to launch the Blue Moon lander. Limp's update resolves the biggest unknowns after last week's dramatic failure: rebuild the same pad, fly the same rocket variant, and do it fast.