CAPE CANAVERAL, Oct. 17 -- Blue Origin said Friday it will build more launch pads on Florida's Space Coast for a rocket it has not flown since April, and it did not say where they will go.

The rocket has sat idle since the New Glenn explosion in May, a blast during a static-fire test that damaged Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. One pad there, LC-36A, is being rebuilt. A second, LC-36B, is still under construction. The company's answer to a damaged pad, announced in a string of infrastructure updates Friday morning, is more of them.

Ian Richardson, Blue Origin's senior vice president of operations, said the buildout is meant to support "multiple flights per week by the end of the decade." The current ceiling at L...