![]() The booster and second stage are identical in both variants, Blue Origin said.īezos said the company has learned a great deal from building and testing its New Shepard rocket “about how to design for practical, operable reusability. The three-stage version is 313 feet tall with the third stage using a single vacuum-optimized BE-3 engine that burns liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. ![]() The two-stage version is 270 feet tall with the second stage powered by a single vacuum-optimized BE-4 engine. ULA is a joint venture formed by Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The BE-4s burn liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen and also are set to power the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan rocket, the company said. New Glenn is 23 feet in diameter and will lift off with 3.85 million pounds of thrust using seven BE-4 engines. Like the New Shepard booster that Blue Origin continues to test and successfully land after launch, the New Glenn is also meant to be reusable with the booster stage landing after it launches its payload into orbit. The New Glenn booster rocket varieties in comparison to other rockets. ![]() Blue Origin intends to fly the rocket for the first time before the end of the decade from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Blue Origin unveiled in a company newsletter on Monday its new large orbital rocket, the New Glenn, named after the first American to orbit Earth, John Glenn.Ĭompany founder Jeff Bezos wrote New Glenn is designed to launch both commercial satellites and humans into space and that the three-stage variant is capable of flying beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) missions. ![]()
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