juliensimon/blue-origin-launches

Blue Origin Launch Log

Credit: NASA

Part of a dataset collection on Hugging Face.

Dataset description

Complete Blue Origin launch manifest — past and upcoming missions flown or planned by Jeff Bezos's space company, sourced from The Space Devs Launch Library 2 API.

Covers New Shepard (suborbital reusable vehicle used for research and crewed space tourism) and New Glenn (heavy-lift reusable orbital rocket that first flew in 2025). Each row captures mission identifier, vehicle, launch time, status, pad location, target orbit, and a free-text mission description. Includes the full history from the NS-1 development flight in April 2015 through the current manifest of confirmed upcoming New Glenn customer missions.

This dataset is designed as a direct counterpart to juliensimon/spacex-launches, enabling head-to-head comparison of Blue Origin and SpaceX launch cadence, success rates, and vehicle usage over time. It is particularly useful for tracking the accelerating New Glenn flight rate as Blue Origin ramps production, the company's growing share of NASA science missions such as the twin-satellite Mars launch in November 2025, and the competitive dynamics with SpaceX in the Artemis lunar lander program.

This dataset is suitable for tabular classification, time-series forecasting tasks.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Sample	Null %
launch_id	str	The Space Devs UUID for the launch	18dc3dc8-9151-4566-99b0-56fdaeb45067	0.0%
name	str	Launch display name (e.g. 'New Shepard | NS-20', 'New Glenn | Blue Moon MK1')	New Shepard | NS-1	0.0%
mission_name	str	Mission identifier assigned by Blue Origin (NS-NN for New Shepard, NG-NN for New Glenn)	NS-1	0.0%
rocket	str	Launch vehicle configuration name (New Shepard, New Glenn)	New Shepard	0.0%
net_utc	datetime64[us, UTC]	No Earlier Than launch time (UTC). For completed launches this is the actual liftoff time; for upcoming it is the target	2015-04-29 17:06:00+00:00	0.0%
window_start_utc	datetime64[us, UTC]	Start of the launch window (UTC)	2015-04-29 17:06:00+00:00	0.0%
window_end_utc	datetime64[us, UTC]	End of the launch window (UTC)	2015-04-29 17:06:00+00:00	0.0%
status	str	Launch status: 'Launch Successful', 'Launch Failure', 'Partial Failure', 'Go for Launch', 'To Be Determined', 'To Be Confirmed', etc.	Launch Successful	0.0%
status_abbrev	str	Short status code: 'Success', 'Failure', 'Go', 'TBD', 'TBC', 'Hold'	Success	0.0%
mission_type	str	Mission category (Test Flight, Tourism, Science, Dedicated Rideshare, Lunar Transfer, etc.)	Test Flight	0.0%
mission_description	str	Free-text description of the mission objective	The first flight of the New Shepard 1...	0.0%
orbit	str	Target orbit abbreviation (SO=Suborbital, LEO, GTO, TLI, etc.) where applicable	Sub	0.0%
pad_name	str	Launch pad name	West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Co...	0.0%
pad_location	str	Launch complex / site name	Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA	0.0%
pad_country	str	Launch pad country code (USA, etc.)	USA	0.0%
pad_latitude	float64	Launch pad geodetic latitude (deg)	31.422878	0.0%
pad_longitude	float64	Launch pad geodetic longitude (deg)	-104.757121	0.0%
year	int64	Launch year (integer, derived from net_utc)	2015	0.0%

Quick stats

• 45 Blue Origin launches (40 past, 5 upcoming)
• 38 New Shepard + 7 New Glenn flights tracked
• 97.5% success rate across completed missions
• Manifest spans 2015 through 2027

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("juliensimon/blue-origin-launches", split="train")
df = ds.to_pandas()

from datasets import load_dataset

bo = load_dataset("juliensimon/blue-origin-launches", split="train").to_pandas()
sx = load_dataset("juliensimon/spacex-launches", split="train").to_pandas()

# Head-to-head annual cadence
bo_year = bo.groupby("year").size().rename("blue_origin")
# (SpaceX dataset has its own year column — adapt as needed)
print(bo_year.tail(10))

# New Glenn flight manifest
ng = bo[bo["rocket"] == "New Glenn"].sort_values("net_utc")
print(ng[["mission_name", "net_utc", "status", "orbit"]])

Data source

https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/

Update schedule

Daily at 08:45 UTC via GitHub Actions

Related datasets

• juliensimon/spacex-launches

• juliensimon/space-launch-log

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• juliensimon/starlink-fleet-data

• juliensimon/launch-vehicles

• juliensimon/constellation-census

• juliensimon/gcat

• juliensimon/gcat-satcat

• juliensimon/launch-cost

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About the author

Created by Julien Simon — AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital. Part of the Space Datasets collection.

Citation

@dataset{blue_origin_launches,
  title = {Blue Origin Launch Log},
  author = {juliensimon},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/blue-origin-launches},
  publisher = {Hugging Face}
}

License

CC-BY-4.0