NEW YORK, New York, September 7, 2024 – Blue Horizons Aerospace, LLC (BHA) today announced that it has discontinued the Tenacity Program due to ongoing schedule challenges, broader program delays, and the program’s high-level objectives no longer aligning with BHA’s long-term plans of offering suborbital launch services by 2030. Additionally, Vehicle Flight Test 1 (VFT-1), the only mission scheduled for the Tenacity Program at the time of discontinuation, has been canceled.
The Tenacity rocket—originally announced in 2022 as part of the now-canceled program—will re-enter its previously suspended development under a future initiative in 2025, entering a new conceptual design phase aligned with BHA’s strategic needs. This new initiative will directly support BHA’s efforts to offer suborbital launch services by 2030, following the successful completion of the current Insight Program. BHA plans to formally announce the new initiative in January 2025.
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Founded in 2022 and headquartered in New York, New York, Blue Horizons Aerospace, LLC (BHA) is an aerospace company developing, innovating, and advancing today's technologies and systems to deliver tomorrow's capabilities. Currently, a leading innovator in amateur rocketry, BHA is dedicated to offering suborbital launch services to commercial customers by 2030. Our future launch services will enable commercial customers to test and validate supersonic vehicles and various advanced payloads. With a dedicated team across the United States, we are united by a shared passion for exploration and technological advancement.