Blue Origin's New Glenn

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#1 Blue Origin's New Glenn

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Blue Origin has sent out an email a bit ago, (got put in my spam folder, ugh) with their next stepps in the new space race.

The new Glen 2 stage and three stage rockets...
Our mascot is the tortoise. We paint one on our vehicles after each successful flight. Our motto is “Gradatim Ferociter” – step by step, ferociously. We believe “slow is smooth and smooth is fast.” In the long run, deliberate and methodical wins the day, and you do things quickest by never skipping steps. This step-by-step approach is a powerful enabler of boldness and a critical ingredient in achieving the audacious. We’re excited to give you a preview of our next step. One we’ve been working on for four years. Meet New Glenn:
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Introducing New Glenn: Reusable, vertical-landing booster, 3.85 million pounds thrust
(A high-resolution version of this image is available at http://www.blueorigin.com/gallery)

Building, flying, landing, and re-flying New Shepard has taught us so much about how to design for practical, operable reusability. And New Glenn incorporates all of those learnings.

Named in honor of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn is 23 feet in diameter and lifts off with 3.85 million pounds of thrust from seven BE-4 engines. Burning liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen, these are the same BE-4 engines that will power United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket.

The 2-stage New Glenn is 270 feet tall, and its second stage is powered by a single vacuum-optimized BE-4 engine. The 3-stage New Glenn is 313 feet tall. A single vacuum-optimized BE-3 engine, burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, powers its third stage. The booster and the second stage are identical in both variants.

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.

Our vision is millions of people living and working in space, and New Glenn is a very important step. It won’t be the last of course. Up next on our drawing board: New Armstrong. But that’s a story for the future.

Gradatim Ferociter!

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Looks interesting in both variants and a pain to scale with those forward fins :cry:
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#2 Re: Blue Origin's New Glenn

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I'll believe it when I see it...

Powerpoint is easy-- hardware is hard...

Later! OL J R :)
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#3 Re: Blue Origin's New Glenn

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luke strawwalker wrote:I'll believe it when I see it...

Powerpoint is easy-- hardware is hard...

Later! OL J R :)

So I take it Luke, that you'll be waiting a while for Space-X before believing it also, even though they have CGI vids instead of Powerpoint?

SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

I am hoping that we are fortunate enough to have a new space race between these two forward thinking companies (and maybe some others will join in). The greatest advantage being that it is civilian and the possibility exists that I may become a passenger some day before I die. :mrgreen: 8-)
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