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Blue Origin formally announced the development of New Glenn — which aims to outpower SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and haul spacecraft up to 45 metric tons (99,200 pounds) to orbit — in 2016.
In January 2016, Blue Origin indicated that the new rocket would be many times larger than New Shepard even though it would be the smallest of the family of Blue Origin orbital vehicles. [11] Blue Origin publicly released the high-level design of the vehicle and announced the name New Glenn—with both two-stage and three-stage variants planned ...
Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rivals SpaceX's 400-foot Starship in size. Its first stage, powered by seven Blue Origin engines known as BE-4, is designed ...
The company began construction on New Glenn in 2016. Bezos has said he isn't happy with the company's speed of progress. "Blue Origin needs to be much faster," Bezos told Lex Fridman in December ...
The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Thursday during its inaugural launch. - John Raoux/AP.
In 2015, Blue Origin leased LC-36 with the goal of developing a new launch site for its orbital rockets. 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.
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 ...
Blue Origin's Orbital Launch Site (OLS) manufacturing facility, 2019. In September 2015, Blue Origin leased Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) in Cape Canaveral, Florida to build a launch pad for their orbital launch vehicle New Glenn. As of March 2016, the first Blue Origin launch from LC36 was