The flight was approximately 10 minutes and crossed the Kármán line. On July 20, 2021, the company successfully completed its first crewed mission, Blue Origin NS-16, into space using its New Shepard launch vehicle. New Glenn is planned to launch in Q3 of 2024. The New Glenn heavy-lift launch vehicle can be configured in both two-stage and three-stage variants.
Blue Origin publicly released the high-level design of the vehicle and announced its name in September 2016 as "New Glenn". In January 2016, Blue Origin indicated that the new rocket would be many times larger than New Shepard. The heavy-lift launch vehicles main power is supported by two BE-4 engines.Īfter initiating the development of an orbital rocket system prior to 2012, and stating in 2013 on their website that the first stage would perform a powered vertical landing and be reusable, Blue Origin publicly announced their orbital launch vehicle intentions in September 2015. ULA has said that the first flight of its Vulcan Centaur heavy-lift launch vehicle is scheduled to launch in Q3 of 2023. Blue Origin moved into the orbital spaceflight technology development business in 2014, initially as a rocket engine supplier via a contractual agreement to build the BE-4 rocket engine, for major US launch system operator United Launch Alliance (ULA). The company primarily employs an incremental approach from suborbital to orbital flight, with each developmental step building on its prior work. Rob Meyerson joined Blue Origin in 2003 and served as the company's president before leaving the company in 2018. History īlue Origin was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and current executive chairman of Amazon. The company is working on a fourth rocket engine, called the BE-7, which is still under development and when completed, will be used on planetary bodies other than Earth. Blue Origin has three engines in production including the BE-3U, BE-3PM and BE-4. In early 2021, the company received over $275 million from the U.S Government (NASA) for lunar lander projects and sub-orbital research flights. Blue Origin makes rocket engines for United Launch Alliance and other customers as well as manufactures its own rockets, spacecraft and heavy-lift launch vehicles. Blue Origin, LLC is an American aerospace, defense, space exploration company and launch service provider headquartered in Kent, Washington, United States.
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