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In January 2024, the first stage of New Glenn was being transported at Kennedy Space Center from the factory to the launch complex in preparation for a 2024 launch. [42] In February 2024, a boiler plate of both the first and second stages of New Glenn had been erected on launch pad LC-36 for the first time.
New Glenn heavy-lift rocket stands at Launch Complex 36 pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Blue Origin. ... Weeks before New Glenn's debut launch, during the New York Times 2024 ...
The pad is 9 miles from the company’s control centers and rocket factory, outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Blue Origin envisions six to eight New Glenn flights this year, if ...
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket sits Friday on the launch pad at Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Friday. After a delay, the rocket is scheduled to make its inaugural launch Thursday.
Space Launch Complex 9 (SLC-9) is a planned launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States.Currently a greenfield, it is leased to Blue Origin as part of their plans to have a Western Range site for their New Glenn launch vehicle, joining Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral. [1]
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket climbs away from pad 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop 3.85 million pounds of thrust from its seven methane-burning BE-4 first stage engines.
The company has been working on the New Glenn launch vehicle since 2012 and performed its first launch from LC-36 in January 2025. Prior to Blue Origin's lease, LC-36 featured two launch pads, 36A and 36B. During the 1960s and 1970s, it served as the launch site for pioneering space missions, including the Pioneer, Surveyor, and Mariner probes. [3]
Thirty stories tall with a reusable first stage, New Glenn launched at 2:03 a.m. ET (0703 GMT) from Blue Origin's launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, its seven BE-4 engines ...