New Glenn

In-active Re-Usable

Blue Origin (BO)

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Description

The New Glenn is a privately funded orbital launch vehicle in development by Blue Origin. New Glenn is described as a 7-meter-diameter (23 ft), two- or three-stage rocket.

Specifications

Minimum Stage
2
Max Stage
3
Length
82.0 m
Diameter
7.0 m
Fairing Diameter
7.0 m
Launch Mass
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Thrust
17100.0 kN

Family

Name
New Glenn
Family
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Variant
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Alias
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Full Name
New Glenn

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
45000.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
13000.0 kg
Direct Geostationary
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
―

Blue Origin

Commercial

CEO: Jeff Bezos

BO 2000

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.

Upcoming Spaceflights

New Glenn | Maiden Flight

Blue Origin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, in addition to serving as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight.

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New Glenn | Blue Moon Pathfinder

Blue Origin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD March, 2025

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

First flight of Blue Origin's Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander.

Low Earth Orbit

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New Glenn | EscaPADE

Blue Origin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD June, 2025

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars. The spacecrafts' scientific goals are to understand the processes controlling the structure of Mars' hybrid magnetosphere and how it guides ion flows; understand how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through Mars' magnetosphere; and understand the processes controlling the flow of energy and matter into and out of the collisional atmosphere.

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New Glenn | BlueBird Block 2 #4

Blue Origin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2025

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched. This launch will feature 8 satellites.

Low Earth Orbit

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New Glenn | Project Kuiper (New Glenn #1)

Blue Origin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2025

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 61 satellites will be carried on each New Glenn launch.

Low Earth Orbit

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