platform until October 2018. Blue Origin called the ship LPV, short for Landing Platform Vessel. In December 2020, it was renamed Jacklyn, after Jeff Bezos' mother Jacklyn Bezos. In April 2022, news surfaced that Blue Origin is no longer certain of plans to use Jacklyn for landing the first stage boosters of New Glenn. In August 2022, Blue Origin abandoned the project to build a landing platform ship. Jacklyn was towed out of the Port of Pennsacola on 15 August to transit to the Port of Brownsville, Texas, where the ship was scrapped. Landing platform plans If the ship had been used for rocket landings, the rocket boosters were planned to be recovered downrange of the Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) in the Atlantic Ocean while the hydrodynamically-stabilized ship was underway. The ship stabilization technology was intended to increase the likelihood of successful rocket recovery in rough seas, as well as helping to carry out launches on schedule. The first stage boosters of New Glenn are intended to be reusable, and Jacklyn was to recover the boosters downrange in the Atlantic Ocean east of the launch site. The ship would not have been crewed at the time the New Glenn booster was going to be landing; but rather would be autonomously or telerobotically controlled. In October 2018, Blue Origin said that their plans were to make the first orbital launch of New Glenn in 2021, but in February 2021, stated that the maiden flight was now targeted for late 2022, but the ship is no longer planned to be used after Blue Origin abandoned the project to refit it as a landing platform ship. See also Virgin Galactic VMS Eve; the Virgin vehicle named after the founder's mother References External links New Glenn: The Road to Space at YouTube by Blue Origin, 16 January 2019. Landing sequence on LPV starts at 01:18. Blue Origin Ro-ro ships Maritime vessels related to spaceflight Floating launch vehicle operations platform Ships built in Italy Ships built in Croatia 1998 ships