The 7-meter fairing has two times the payload volume of any existing launch vehicle, which means more room for satellites and the freedom to build in more capacity. New Glenn is a reliable, cost-competitive system with high availability. Following stage separation, the first stage flies back to Earth and lands nearly 1,000 km downrange on a moving ship, allowing the booster to land in heavy sea-states. Note you have the right to access your data at any time by contacting us at The aerospace company has completed work on its first full-scale New Glenn launch vehicle fairing, also known as the nose cone. They’re also preparing the neighboring LC-11 site to host extensive testing of the craft’s BE-4 engines. Critical design review was completed last year, and now the company is working on hardware testing, officials added. The tanks are also being built at the company's manufacturing facility in Cape Canaveral. A subset of payloads require vertical integration - I think it may be due to hypergolic fuels, but I’m not sure on that one. Everything to do with their construction – from building them to plumbing them and putting the domes on – happens right there in Florida under one roof.

Space calendar 2020: Rocket launches, sky events, missions & more! Yes, Blue is the most underestimated Space company right now. $2.5 billion invested in New Glenn to date, Civil, Commercial and National Security customers, More volume means more satellites and the freedom to design in more capability, First stage powered by seven BE-4 LNG/LOX engines, upper stage powered by two BE-3U LH2/LOX engines, Launch in nearly all weather conditions and sea-states. Core i5 vs. BE-7(Blue Moon engine) has gone through extensive testing, Project Kuiper constellation (possible multi billion customer), NASA testing contracts (fuel cells, producing & storing liquid rocket propellant on the moon). Parts of Blue Origin's new mission control center at the New Glenn rocket factory featured in a recent tweet, with viewers able to see the individual control stations (replete with several computer screens), white floors and glass-walled sides. The company announced the first successful hot-fire test of the BE-4 last month, but the LC-11 site will give them the opportunity for far more extensive testing. Our (really) big step - an orbital reusable launch vehicle that will build the road to space. And that’s just some of the things we know about. High production engine factory already complete on schedule and will start cranking out engines en-masse this year.

Space is about to get a LOT more interesting! Latest Breaking News for US and Worldwide. Blue Origin is the technology company founded by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com in 2000 with the intention of enabling cheap and safe human space flight. New Glenn is just too far away for the company to start giving us these numbers, but if it comes down to fuel costs then it could well end up cheaper than Falcon Heavy. An aerial view of Blue Origin's engine test facility in West Texas, where the BE-3U engines for New Glenn's upper stage are being tested. 19 flights maybe? That's a lot of stairs on that scaffolding. Blue lamps under each desk and a sweeping, curved set of ceiling lights will illuminate the controllers as they work. Our image of the day.

Scott Henderson, the director of Orbital Launch Operations for Blue Origin, recently confirmed in an update to the USAF Space & Missile Museum Volunteers that Blue Origin is driving poles 60 meters (200 feet) long into the ground to support the new build.

Seven of those engines will be used for the first two stages of a New Glenn launch, while the older BE-3 model will be responsible for the third stage. The second stage engines ignite and the 7-meter fairing separates. New Glenn tanks are now going into production.

NASA has found water on a sunlit area of the Moon, Check out NASA's intriguing four-wheeled rover prototype made for planetary exploration, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Review: The New $500 King, Quad GeForce RTX 3090 tested on a single PC running workstation benchmarks. "[When] we get to the real fun, or "hot fire" that engine for the first time ... that's when we actually learn if we get our engine right," said Tim Hinerman, Blue Origin's senior director of program management in engines, in the video. The company is targeting civil, commercial and military customers for this rocket, which will be reusable (to lower launch costs) and is billed as being able to launch in 95% of weather conditions (to reduce the possibility of flight delays), according to the Blue Origin website.

It also helps to keep costs down.

A view of the payload fairing for Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. can access our With horizontal integration you can simply rotate the rocket around its long axis so everything is accessible at the same working height. Work on Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch complex – LC-36 – is well underway. An inside look at our completed mission control in the #NewGlenn rocket factory.