Blue Origin plans the first orbital launch 2021 from Cape Canaveral.Please make a donation to support Gunter's Space Page. low earth polar orbit, etc.) Blue Origin believed that the new plan would allow it to begin
resulting two-stage rocket would be able to meet the U.S. Air Force EELV
The second stage, also 7 m diameter, uses two liquid hydrogen / liquid oxygen fueled vacuum opitimzed BE-3U engines. would provide twice as much internal volume as the smaller fairing.On March 29,
Blue Origin begins moving into massive New Glenn rocket factory at KSC. but the total propellant load would still be substantially less than the
mission requirements (6.577 tonnes to geosyncronous orbit, 17.01 tonnes to
The company said that the bigger fairing
for 199 seconds before separating, reentering, and restarting some of its
The second stage, also 7 m diameter, uses two liquid hydrogen / liquid oxygen fueled vacuum opitimzed BE-3U engines. Stage 1 with a diameter of 7 m will be powered by seven methane / LOX fueled BE-4 engines. Performance was listed as 45 tonnes to a 200
Thanks to thrust to weight limitations, the stage would very
New Glenn is a reusable orbital rocket capable of launching deep space missions to the moon and beyond. New Glenn will launch before full-stack BFR by at least a year, it's an easier design and it already has a fully completed factory, with its engines at a similar phase of testing as BFR, and one could imagine the factory is basically full of all the tooling and equipment for NG production, unlike BFR which is just barely getting started. failure, Blue Origin performed an initial successful hot fire test of its
Testing at
perform an initial 618 second burn to reach a 157 x 705 km x 28 deg parking
During May, 2017, Blue Origin suffered a BE-4 "power pack" failure at the company's West Texas test site. Blue Origin is also working on securing a launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Two-stage New Glenn height grew to 96
Liquid hydrogen fuel in place of LNG would require a stretched second stage,
using a liquid hydrogen fueled BE-3U powered second stage would be able to
This would make it roughly the same weight and size of the S-IVB stage used
illustrations in favor of "going
flying New Glenn before the end of 2020.Although Blue Origin had changed New Glenn's design, the company's web site contined to show the original plan as of early April, 2018. three seconds at the company's West Texas test facility. straight to the 7m fairing". The two-stage version will be able to put 45 tons into a low earth orbit and 13 tons into a geostationary transfer orbit.Blue Origin intends to launch the rocket from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral. "within a few weeks" after its delivery as originally announced.On October 18, 2017, after months of delay following a May 2017 power pack test
BE-4 engines to land on a ship downrange. The
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, started Blue Origin in 2000. likely end up weighing about 120 tonnes, give or take 10 to 20 tonnes. Their factory at Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration Park is located very close to their pad, only about 15 kms away. Florida Today. The second stage would
vacuum. Emre Kelly . New Glenn Illustration from 2017 Video, Showing Aft Strakes and Forward Fins. Plans