section_path: Launch services/Launch service customers
section_name: Launch service customers
paragraph_text: Launch service customers
  
  By 2018, Blue Origin had contracts in place with four customers for New Glenn flights. Eutelsat, Thailand startup mu Space Corp and SKY Perfect JSAT have geosynchronous orbit communications satellite launches planned after 2020, while internet satellite constellation fleet operator OneWeb had an agreement by 2018 for five launches.
  
  In January 2019, Telesat signed a multi-launch contract "to launch satellites for its future low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation on multiple New Glenn missions" and thus is Blue Origin's fifth customer.
  
  In 2022, Amazon announced that it had contracted 12 flights of New Glenn, with an option for 15 more, for deployment of the Kuiper satellite constellation.
  
  In February 2023, NASA announced that it had selected Blue Origin to launch the ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars. In May 2024, it was announced the spacecraft had reached substantial completion in preparation for launch later in the year; however NASA subsequently moved the ESCAPADE payload from the first flight of New Glenn to a later flight of the rocket.
  
  In November 2024, AST SpaceMobile selected Blue Origin to launch some of its Block 2 satellites.