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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA’s Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft a half-century ago.
New Glenn is a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed and operated by the American company Blue Origin.The rocket is designed to have a partially reusable, two-stage design with a diameter of 7 meters (23 ft).
Historically, it served as a launch pad for Atlas rockets operated by NASA and the U.S. Air Force from 1962 to 2005. [1] [2] 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 ...
Maiden/demonstration flight of New Glenn, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft. First National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn. [3] The 13 January launch was scrubbed due to problems with the rocket. The second stage made it to orbit, but the first stage was lost and failed to land. [4]