The New Glenn’s upper stage successfully completed two burns of its BE-3U engines to carry the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload into orbit while remaining attached to the upper stage. The Blue Ring ...
The rocket has a reusable first stage that contains Blue Origin's BE-4 engines fueled by a mixture of liquid natural gas and liquid oxygen. The New Glenn's upper stage is powered by Blue Origin's ...
New Glenn is designed to launch commercial satellites and to fly humans into space. The 3-stage variant – with its high specific impulse hydrogen upper stage – is capable of flying demanding ...
The mini Starship does not easily fit onto the Falcon 9 booster as an upper stage without extensive modifications. New Glenn Booster The New Glenn booster, developed by Blue Origin, has a 7-meter ...
Plans called for the second stage to be placed in a safe condition to stay in a high, out-of-the-way orbit in accordance with NASA's practices for minimizing space junk. New Glenn was supposed to ...
Despite a lengthy development time and plenty of setbacks, the multi-stage rocket is no slouch. The New Glenn can produce roughly twice as much thrust at liftoff than Falcon 9, but falls short of ...
For the first time ever, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit, using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. The two-stage rocket lifted off from Launch… Read More Over ...
The newly released Payload User Guide noted the recovery profile for the New Glenn booster after launch. “For a nominal 250 km perigee altitude GTO mission, the first stage booster initiates an ...
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin will have to wait a little longer for the long-anticipated maiden orbital flight of its brand-new rocket after a launch attempt dragged on for hours before ...
After the launch, the first stage of the rocket will perform a landing. Who: Blue Origin What: New Glenn When: 06:00–09:45 UTC Where: Florida, US Why: This is the most notable mission this week ...