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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The roughly 320-foot (98-meter) New Glenn is not only the first Blue Origin rocket designed to be capable of hauling satellites to space, it’s also among the most powerful in the world.
The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.
Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit.
size Length (m) Diameter (m) Launch mass (kg) Power system First spaceflight* Status Blue Origin: Biconic Space Vehicle LEO: New Glenn: Planned date not known Development Boeing: CST-100 Starliner: LEO: Multiple, initially Atlas V: 7 [16] 5.03 [17] 4.56 [17] 13,000 Solar panels Crewed: 5 June 2024 (Uncrewed: 20 December 2019) Operational Sierra ...
New Glenn is beginning its first ever ascent toward the stars," Blue Origin wrote in an X post on Thursday morning. Bezos, who was present at New Glenn's launch, uploaded a minute-long clip of the ...