(@blueorigin) on X: New Glenn’s reusable first stage aims ... - Reddit
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 2024 and another in 2025.
Blue Origin sure seems confident it will launch New Glenn in 2024
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.....
New Glenn vs Starship size comparison : r/BlueOrigin - Reddit
Feb 21, 2023 · A more accurate comparison would be a Boeing 737 MAX (New Glenn) and a Airbus A380 (Starship). One took forever to make it to market and had significant hardware issues but was targeting a known profitable segment of the market and now has thousands of orders when the hardware issues were fixed.
Close up of New Glenn on it's way to the pad : r/BlueOrigin - Reddit
Feb 21, 2024 · Wow ever since JB got rid of the previous CEO (BS) work us actually progressing! Congratulations to JB and team. 230 votes, 34 comments. 28K subscribers in the BlueOrigin community. A subreddit to discuss the space company …
How Does Blue Origin Plan To Land New Glenn’s Booster?
Oct 5, 2022 · 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 worked to refit it as a mobile landing platform in the ocean for future New Glenn launches.
Why is New Glenn so much bigger than Falcon Heavy but has less …
Aug 24, 2021 · New Glenn is 96m tall total, 7m tank diameter with LEO payload capacity of 45k kg and GTO payload capacity of 13k kg. Falcon Heavy is 70m tall, 3.66m diameter for each booster, with LEO payload capacity of 63.8k kg and GTO payload capacity of 26.7k kg. I just realized why as i typed this out - FH has 2 boosters, more fuel, more capacity, etc.
Blue Origin announces New Glenn, a Reusable, vertical-landing
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.
New Glenn launch price : r/BlueOrigin - Reddit
Feb 23, 2021 · There was a post where Arianespace carried out competitive analysis. It showed New Glenn’s launch price at around $66million. It’s somewhere in this sub, posted around a year ago. Really have never been following Telesat, but ground infrastructure for a whole new constellation is expensive - not a marginal cost.
New Glenn vs Vulcan performance : r/BlueOrigin - Reddit
This line of reasoning also suggests that, for example, F9 wouldn’t launch small payloads that could’ve gone on F1. Blue are aiming for New Glenn to be cheap to launch, and if it’s cheaper than Vulcan then they will launch all smaller payloads than Vulcan on New Glenn. $20M for ESCAPADE is an example.
Where's the New Glenn tanks at? : r/BlueOrigin - Reddit
Oct 7, 2020 · A subreddit to discuss the space company Blue Origin, which makes the New Glenn and New Shepard rockets Members Online Amazon selects Blue Origin’s New Glenn for 12 launches, with options for up to 15 additional launches of Kuiper’s satellite constellation.