Jacklyn (LPV1) - Blue Origin Landing Platform Vessel

Jacklyn (Landing Platform Vessel #1)

Blue Origin

Jacklyn upon completion of construction in August 2024 – Théo Gregoire.

Jacklyn is a Blue Origin landing barge for the New Glenn rocket, based out of Port Canaveral, Florida. The legal name of the barge is Landing Platform Vessel #1 (LPV1). Jacklyn is named in honor of Jeff Bezos’s mother, Jacklyn Bezos. The name Jacklyn was previously given to a ferry that Blue Origin planned to use as a landing ship for New Glenn. The company scrapped the ferry in 2022, moving forward with the barge we see today.

Construction of Jacklyn started in Romania in early 2023, with finishing works undertaken at Damen Shipyards in Brest, France, from April 2024. Following brief sea trials, Jacklyn departed Brest for Florida on August 8, 2024, to enter service ahead of the debut launch of the New Glenn rocket.

Jacklyn is a bespoke, specially designed barge built from scratch for Blue Origin. The barge has been towed by the support ship Harvey Stone. The full extent of Jacklyn’s autonomous capabilities is yet to be publicly known.

NEWS: Blue Origin's New Glenn landing barge is named Landing Platform Vessel 1.

The vessel was captured passing through Istanbul as it was moved from its construction shipyard in Romania. The barge is currently being outfitted in France.

Full Photo Credit and thanks to Daniil:… pic.twitter.com/xJWhf5JdCZ
— Gav Cornwell (@SpaceOffshore) May 30, 2024

Having been constructed outside the USA, Jacklyn is a non-Jones Act compliant vessel. The Act mandates that goods transported between U.S. ports must be carried on ships that are built, owned, and operated by U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

An unknown aerospace company queried the possibility of using non-compliant recovery vessels back in 2023. U.S. Customs and Border Protection determined that since the recovery of rocket booster components would occur outside of U.S. territorial seas and no transportation of merchandise between coastwise points would occur, the Act would not be violated. The CBP also cited a precedent set in 2008 where a non-compliant vessel was allowed to recover and return an Orion Crew Module as the landing occurred more than 200 miles offshore, outside of U.S. territorial waters.

Jacklyn departing Europe for Florida – Florent Colin

Jacklyn is homeported and operates out of Port Canaveral, Florida. Blue Origin holds a lease with the port for its recovery operations. Onsite, the company operates a custom-built 375-foot Liebherr crane for New Glenn processing. A ‘break-over’ fixture is used to help turn the booster from vertical to horizontal for processing. The company first tested this process with a New Glenn simulator in August 2024.

Timelapse: New Glenn booster simulator goes vertical at Port Canaveral for the first time! Awesome engineering on the break-over fixture at the flamey end ❤️‍🔥

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— Gav Cornwell (@SpaceOffshore) August 8, 2024

Labeled photo of Jacklyn. Photo from Blue Origin, adapted by space-offshore.com

Last Known Location

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