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Origin Manufacturer Height 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 ...
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New Glenn launches from Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, January 16, 2025. On 12 June 2024 Blue Origin received the communications license for the inaugural flight of New Glenn. [46] The vehicle was selected for the U.S. NSSL program with expectation that the inaugural launch would occur no later than December 2024 ...
New Glenn’s first flight. 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 ...
Like SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9, the New Glenn's first stage was designed to fly itself to a landing on a Blue Origin recovery ship after boosting the upper stage out of the lower atmosphere.
That said, New Glenn is more than three times more powerful than SpaceX's first Falcon 9. Blue Origin's comparatively tiny New Shepard rocket, which carries paying customers and other payloads to ...
Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn is a 320-foot heavy-lift launch vehicle that rivals SpaceX's 400-foot Starship in size. Its first stage, powered by seven Blue ...
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 ...