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Topic: [Discuss] Blue Origin New Glenn orbital rocket
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-15-2016 08:32 PM
Please use this topic to discuss Blue Origin's New Glenn orbital launch vehicles. |
SpaceAholic Member Posts: 5326 From: Sierra Vista, Arizona Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-15-2016 08:34 PM
Interview with Jeff Bezos: During a half-hour-long question-and-answer period, he offered some additional insights into his vision for how humans will eventually spread out into the solar system, what he hopes his legacy will be and how he competes against other billionaire space enthusiasts such as Elon Musk and Richard Branson. |
SkyMan1958 Member Posts: 1355 From: CA. Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 09-26-2016 04:02 PM
Exciting results from three weeks of wind tunnel testing of New Glenn at transonic and supersonic speeds. Does anyone know where the wind tunnel testing is taking place? |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-26-2016 06:49 PM
I asked Alan Boyle, who wrote about the tests for GeekWire: I couldn't confirm it, but I'm pretty sure it's Lockheed Martin's High Speed Wind Tunnel in Dallas. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-09-2016 07:35 AM
Two weeks before he died, John Glenn wrote a letter in recognition of 2016 American Ingenuity Awards-winner Jeff Bezos, in which he reacted to the naming of the New Glenn. I'm deeply touched that you've named the second generation of [Blue Origin's] rockets — the first reusable rocket to orbit the Earth — the New Glenn. As the original Glenn, I can tell you I see the day coming when people will board spacecraft the same way millions of us now board jetliners. When that happens, it will be largely because of your achievements this year. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-07-2017 09:11 AM
Eutelsat release Eutelsat signs up for Blue Origin's New Glenn launcherEutelsat to fly on New Glenn from 2021 Eutelsat Communications today [March 7] announced at the Satellite 2017 Convention in Washington D.C. the conclusion of a contract with Blue Origin for a launch on the New Glenn rocket that is expected to initiate flights in 2020. The new partnership with Blue Origin reflects Eutelsat's longstanding strategy to source launch services from multiple agencies in order to secure access to space and partner with launch agencies that combine the highest levels of performance, flexibility and competitiveness. The agreement with Blue Origin covers the launch of a geostationary satellite in the 2021-2022 timeframe. The New Glenn launcher will be compatible with virtually all Eutelsat satellites, giving flexibility to allocate the mission 12 months ahead of launch. Rodolphe Belmer, Eutelsat CEO, commented on the new relationship with Blue Origin: "Blue Origin has been forthcoming with Eutelsat on its strategy and convinced us they have the right mindset to compete in the launch service industry. Their solid engineering approach, and their policy to develop technologies that will form the base of a broad generation of launchers, corresponds to what we expect from our industrial partners. In including New Glenn in our manifest we are pursuing our longstanding strategy of innovation that drives down the cost of access to space and drives up performance. This can only be good news for the profitability and sustainability of our industry." "Eutelsat is one of the world's most experienced and innovative satellite operators, and we are honoured that they chose Blue Origin and our New Glenn orbital launch vehicle," said Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin founder. "Eutelsat has launched satellites on many new vehicles and shares both our methodical approach to engineering and our passion for driving down the cost of access to space. Welcome to the launch manifest, Eutelsat, can't wait to fly together." |
cspg Member Posts: 6362 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 03-07-2017 09:17 AM
Test flight for 2020. Same year for Ariane 6. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-12-2017 05:37 AM
Blue Origin has announced New Glenn will debut with a 7 meter fairing. New Glenn features more than twice the payload volume of any 5-meter class commercial launch system. |
cspg Member Posts: 6362 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-12-2017 10:59 AM
As with the shuttle's external tank unnecessarily painted in white for the first two missions, will Blue Origin drop the feather logo on its rocket? It's not that great looking. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-12-2017 08:33 PM
The feather is Blue Origin's logo, so I would not expect it to go away. Per Bezos: I think it's representative of freedom and exploration and mobility and progress. For the people who are in love with flight, there is no substitute. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-29-2018 12:44 PM
Blue Origin quietly changed the design of its New Glenn rocket around the beginning of the year in order to hold to a 2020 first launch and increase the range of orbital missions the rocket can complete, SpaceNews reports. Although the company's website still shows New Glenn with a second stage powered by a reignitable version of the BE-4 it is developing to power the main stage of both New Glenn and United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket, that configuration is now out of date.A Blue Origin executive told SpaceNews the company is shelving development of a vacuum-optimized version of BE-4 and will instead use vacuum-optimized versions of flight-proven BE-3 engines for New Glenn's second stage and optional third stage. "We've already flown BE-3s, and we were already in the development program for BE-3U as the third stage for New Glenn," said Clay Mowry, Blue Origin's vice president of sales, marketing and customer experience. "It made a lot of sense for us to switch to an architecture where we get there faster for first flight." The BE-3U is the upper stage variant of the liquid hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine that has powered Blue Origin's reusable New Shepard spacecraft on six suborbital test flights since its 2015 debut. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-03-2020 09:43 AM
From Blue Origin, via Twitter: 2020 is shaping up to be a busy year for the Blue team in Florida – starting with the completion of the first full scale New Glenn 7 meter fairing at our rocket factory in Cape Canaveral. |
SkyMan1958 Member Posts: 1355 From: CA. Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 12-22-2020 01:28 PM
Does anyone know if the New Glenn will be human rated? |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-29-2020 10:35 PM
From Jeff Bezos (via Instagram): My siblings and I surprised our mom today. We revealed the name of the Blue Origin landing ship. We named it after her — the Jacklyn.New Glenn's first stage will come home to the Jacklyn after every flight. It couldn't be more appropriately named — Mom has always given us the best place and best heart to come home to.
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-23-2023 02:14 PM
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson toured Blue Origin's New Glenn assembly facilities in Florida today. I got to see New Glenn manufacturing up close, which is an essential element of their Blue Moon human landing system architecture.
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-20-2023 02:25 PM
The director of NASA's Launch Services Program Bradley Smith, speaking at today's NASA Advisory Council meeting, shared the target for the first launch of New Glenn as between August and November of next year. Per Jeff Foust with SpaceNews (via X): ...he acknowledged "some schedule risk" to those plans given the state of New Glenn development. Smith said that NASA's Mars-bound ESCAPADE smallsats will fly on that launch. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-10-2024 05:08 PM
Blue Origin rolled out its first New Glenn rocket ("Freedom") today from its manufacturing facility to LC-36.Photos courtesy Sean Cannon.
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SkyMan1958 Member Posts: 1355 From: CA. Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 01-22-2024 05:19 PM
The first and second stages of New Glenn’s test vehicle mate for the first time, enabling us to exercise our tooling and stage interfaces in preparation for our first launch later this year. Is the test vehicle different from the simulator vehicle, and if so, how? Thank you! |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-22-2024 05:29 PM
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that the simulator was used for facility fit checks and transportation tests.The test vehicle is flight hardware (or perhaps flight-like) hardware. Blue Origin is planning a series of trials with the test vehicle on Pad 36 before proceeding to New Glenn's first flight. |
denali414 Member Posts: 854 From: Raleigh, NC Registered: Aug 2017
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posted 03-04-2024 08:49 AM
Good segment on Blue Origin and first look inside the building at Kennedy Space Center last night on 60 Minutes. |
GACspaceguy Member Posts: 3032 From: Guyton, GA Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 03-04-2024 11:19 AM
Did not see that this was a topic on 60 Minutes last night. Interesting commentary on moon missions in general. (By the way, I thought the cost discussion was interesting. Not unexpected for such a complex program. The cost figures were large until you start looking at the cost of the B2 program.) |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 52024 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-05-2024 04:02 PM
From Blue Origin (via X): We've wrapped up three tanking tests on New Glenn’s first stage and are headed back to the integration facility today. Rest assured, there's much more to come. |