Aug 24, 2021 · This. Blue Origin plans to never expend a New Glenn first stage, so the payload figures they give assume reuse. SpaceX on the other hand is willing to expend Falcon cores, so they list expendable payloads. Falcon Heavy can only do 9-10 tons to GTO at most if if you want to recover all three boosters.

Blue is pretty secretive, so it’s hard to say. But I don’t think it’s controversial to say that they haven’t completed a flight-like New Glenn first stage yet, and that they don’t have the engines to power it yet. Based on that, I think it’s a stretch to say New Glenn will have a …

Mar 13, 2024 · First flight of Blue Moon is 12 months away but Blue Origin is planning 2 flights of New Glenn this year. The first flight is known to be the 2 Escapade satellites and it was assumed that the second flight would be the Blue Moon pathfinder flight as Blue Origin stated it was planning 2 pathfinder flights on the Blue Moon Mk1 for the Sustainable HLS contract, one in …

Oct 5, 2022 · However, Blue Origin and New Glenn have been making some significant updates to the future of New Glenn. Since New Glenn was practically announced, the plan has been for the first stage to be reusable. Specifically, Blue Origin wanted to land this 60 meter tall booster on a moving ship out at sea. The company even purchased a cargo ship and ...

Dec 13, 2023 · First, the company's engineers need to fully assemble a New Glenn rocket and raise it on the company's sprawling seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. There's a good chance of this happening in the coming months as Blue Origin readies for a series of tanking tests and simulated countdowns at the launch site.....

Feb 21, 2024 · 230 votes, 34 comments. 28K subscribers in the BlueOrigin community. A subreddit to discuss the space company Blue Origin, which makes the New Glenn…

Blue Origin on Twitter: "As #NewGlenn makes progress towards first flight, testing with the GS1 simulator will enable the team to practice ground ops for New Glenn’s massive first stage including the transport from the rocket manufacturing complex to LC-36 for integration."

Feb 21, 2023 · As a result, I am happy that Space X have made Starship bigger than New Glenn, because that means Blue Origin when they come to build New Armstrong, and bigger rockets to come, will not have to waste all the money, and make all the mistakes that Space X have made [because development, especially the iterative development approach that Space X ...

Jun 25, 2021 · New Glenn will be human-rated, just as New Shepard is human-rated. But according to Blue Origin rules. If they want to fly NASA astronauts, then they will have to meet NASA human-rating requirements.

Sep 12, 2016 · We plan to fly New Glenn for the first time before the end of this decade from historic Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 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 beyond-LEO missions.