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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 ...
Blue Origin: New Glenn: Active 2nd LH 2 / ... Falcon 9 v1.1: 1st RP-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.
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific ... Dates of flight LEO GTO Other ... New Glenn United States: Blue Origin: 98 m 45,000 [148] 13,000 [148] N/A Partially reusable:
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 ...
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 ...
New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into New Glenn's launch site, rebuilding historic Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The pad is 9 miles (14 kilometers) from the company's control centers and rocket factory, outside the gates of NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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 ...