(@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 …
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.....
Close up of New Glenn on it's way to the pad : r/BlueOrigin - Reddit
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…
Why is New Glenn so much bigger than Falcon Heavy but has less …
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.
New Glenn vs Starship size comparison : r/BlueOrigin - Reddit
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 ...
Axiom Poster teases crewed New Glenn (E. Berger Twitter)
Aug 31, 2021 · Blue Origin teased a crewed New Glenn back when they did the tour of the launch complex, stating one of the lightning protection towers is designed to double as a crew tower for New Glenn in the future. They also had that Biconic capsule proposal for commercial crew before they announced New Glenn, maybe they never truly abandoned that plan…
How Does Blue Origin Plan To Land New Glenn’s Booster?
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 ...
Are they going to human rate New Glenn? : r/BlueOrigin - Reddit
Jun 25, 2021 · They have continuously failed to deliver on their engines, on their "New" Shepard, and their mythical New Glenn. The company is cotton candy - all light and airy but no real substance. Their competition will have been flying heavy lift orbital for years by the time Blue Origin gets into orbit.
What is the actual likelihood of New Glenn launching EscaPADE
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 …
New Glenn vs Vulcan performance : r/BlueOrigin - Reddit
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. As long as the vehicle has enough higher margin missions to pay for fixed costs, it’s worth it for them to take a launch contract even if it just exceeds ...