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Blue Ring Pathfinder
Test article launched aboard the New Glenn NG-1 spaceflight. Blue Ring Pathfinder was launched on January 16, 2025 aboard a New Glenn 7x2 from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit, attached to another object.
COSPAR 2025-011ANORAD 62720United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Blue Ring Pathfinder
- Payload designation
- DS-1
- International designator
- 2025-011A
- NORAD catalog number
- 62720
- GCAT identifier
- S62720
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1270
Mission
- Mission type
- Technology
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Blue Ring
- Owner
- Blue Origin
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Blue Origin LLC
- Platform (bus)
- Blue Ring
Launch
- Date
- January 16, 2025 · 07:03 UTC
- Launch record
- 2025-011Success
- Rocket
- New Glenn 7x2
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC36
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- MEO
- Perigee
- 2,409 km
- Apogee
- 19,224 km
- Inclination
- 30.00°
- Status
- In orbit, attached to another object
- Last known active
- Jan 16, 2025
- End of operations
- Jan 16, 2025
Size
- Mass
- 3,980 kg
- Dry mass
- 3,980 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 34.0 t
- Length
- 2.0 m
- Diameter
- 2.00 m
- Span
- 2.0 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q131826169 (CC0).