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The company stated in 2019 that the planned full operational payload capacity of the two-stage version of New Glenn would be 13,000 kg (29,000 lb) to GTO and 45,000 kg (99,000 lb) to a 51.6° inclined LEO, [5] though the initial operating capability could be somewhat lower. [61]
The Blue Ring Pathfinder demonstrator (left foreground), is seen with the two halves of the New Glenn rocket's payload fairing, or nose cone (background), on December 9, 2024.
Payload Payload Mass Orbit Customer Launch outcome Booster landing 1 16 January 2025 07:03 [1] GS1-SN001 So You're Telling Me There's a Chance [2] Cape Canaveral, LC-36: Blue Ring: Unknown MEO: Blue Origin: Success Failure Maiden/demonstration flight of New Glenn, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft.
New Glenn is roughly twice as powerful as Falcon 9, the world's most active rocket, with a payload bay diameter two times larger to fit bigger batches of satellites. Blue Origin has not disclosed ...
The New Glenn flight profile includes a first stage touchdown on a Blue Origin landing ship in the Atlantic Ocean while the rocket's upper stage propels a test payload known as Blue Ring ...
A heavy-lift launch vehicle (HLV) is an orbital launch vehicle capable of lifting payloads between 20,000 to 50,000 kg (44,000 to 110,000 lb) (by NASA classification) or between 20,000 to 100,000 kilograms (44,000 to 220,000 lb) (by Russian classification) [1] into low Earth orbit (LEO). [2]
Blue Origin's big day. In the wee morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 16, Blue Origin launched its first New Glenn orbital-class rocket to space. The 322-foot rocket flew straight and true, reaching ...
Maximum payload mass (kg) Reusable / Expendable Orbital launches including failures [a] Suborbital test flights Launch site(s) Dates of flight LEO GTO Other First Latest Starship Block 1 [140] United States: SpaceX: 121 m 40,000 – 50,000 [141] N/A N/A Reusable: 0 6 Starbase: 2023 2024 Angara A5 / Orion Russia: Khrunichev: 54.9 m N/A 6,500 ...