US EditionBlue Origin Revealed some Massively Cool Plans for Its New Glenn Rocket
- One week after New Glenn's second launch on Thursday, Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin published a roadmap including the super-heavy New Glenn 9�4 and other launch-system upgrades.
- The company said the upgrades aim to increase payload performance, launch cadence and reliability, phasing in enhancements starting with New Glenn's third launch penciled for first-half 2026, including reusable fairings and turnaround improvements.
- Blue Origin engineers highlighted upgrades to engines and the fairing, adding two more BE-4 engines per stage and increasing BE-3U thrust from 320,000 to 400,000 pounds with a larger 8.7-meter payload fairing.
- Both New Glenn variants will serve customers already manifested on New Glenn and may enable near-term lunar activity such as an uncrewed Blue Moon Mark 1 attempt.
- Renderings position the New Glenn 9�4 as taller than Saturn V and comparable to SpaceX Starship; it would carry over 70 metric tons to LEO, 14 metric tons to GEO, and more than 20 metric tons to TLI, with an internal timeline as early as 2027.
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Blue Origin, the space company of the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, announced Thursday plans to build a superheavy rocket, the New Glenn 9x4, which will have greater power and load capacity and bring it closer to the Starship of SpaceX, its main competitor for the domain of space.“The New Glenn 9x4, which receives its name of the number of engines at each stage, is designed for missions that require greater capacity and performance,” the compan…
The Blue Origin company, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, announced to Joy that it will build a larger and stronger version of its New Glenn space rocket, developing initial plans for a family of orbital satellite launchers, like the Falcon rocket fleet built by SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk and dominated by this activity sector, writes Reuters.
Blue Origin announces New Glenn rocket upgrades fit for a trip to the Moon
After its most recent successful New Glenn mission, Blue Origin is announcing propulsion upgrades to its star rocket, and plans for a larger "super-heavy class rocket" that puts the company in even closer competition with SpaceX.Blue Origin says New Glenn will get higher-performing engines at both stages, with the total thrust of the booster engines increasing from 3.9 million lbf to 4.5 million lbf. The total thrust of the upper stage of the ro…
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