New Glenn announced. Largest rocket in development

[Legend]

And it's from Blue Orign!

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:
Introducing New Glenn: Reusable, vertical-landing booster, 3.85 million pounds thrust
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!
Jeff Bezos

Launched by 2020.

[kitler53]

2020,... lulz.  environmental disaster will create a panic that will lead to war that will render humans on the verge of extinction by then.

[Legend]

Here's a rendering of Blue Origin's launch complex, combining LC-36 and LC-11 into a single complex. pic.twitter.com/0haY9skJCv

— Edward Ellegood (@FLSPACErePORT) September 9, 2016

2020,... lulz.  environmental disaster will create a panic that will lead to war that will render humans on the verge of extinction by then.

Hey, rockets are good for war too...

[kitler53]

Hey, rockets are good for war too...

that's not the right kind of rocket.

besides,..  these days all you have to do is convince some young dumb piece of shame that god will reward you for murdering children and civilians and you can destroy nations with nothing more than a few hundred dollars.

[DD_Bwest]

interesting,  now its a couple weeks until musk unveils the MCT,   which im guessing will be first launched a few years later than this one.  

and i see they are going for the landed booster method lol

[Legend]

interesting,  now its a couple weeks until musk unveils the MCT,   which im guessing will be first launched a few years later than this one.  

and i see they are going for the landed booster method lol

Blue Origin has been working on landing boosters for a while. They are only a few years behind spaceX, more or less.

All this competition is awesome.



BFR/MCT should look more realistic to the public now that Glenn is shown.

[DD_Bwest]

Blue Origin has been working on landing boosters for a while. They are only a few years behind spaceX, more or less.

All this competition is awesome.



BFR/MCT should look more realistic to the public now that Glenn is shown.

yea, that tiny little grass hopper type booster.  its nice to see them stepping up to the orbital realm.   someone on NSF made this adding it in between the 2 glenns.  



this is getting exciting, finally a new age for rocketry.    

on another note, i heard someone mention they will be using the names of astronauts to name their rockets.  I like that.

[Legend]

yea, that tiny little grass hopper type booster.  its nice to see them stepping up to the orbital realm.   someone on NSF made this adding it in between the 2 glenns.  



this is getting exciting, finally a new age for rocketry.    

on another note, i heard someone mention they will be using the names of astronauts to name their rockets.  I like that.

Yeah their first rocket was smaller than the Falcon 1, and their second will be larger than the Falcon Heavy. Huge jump. If you hadn't heard, they also started construction on a rocket manufacturing facility in Florida right across from their launch pad. They seem to actually plan to be a big player.


Next rocket is New Armstrong according to today's PR.

[DD_Bwest]

Yeah their first rocket was smaller than the Falcon 1, and their second will be larger than the Falcon Heavy. Huge jump. If you hadn't heard, they also started construction on a rocket manufacturing facility in Florida right across from their launch pad. They seem to actually plan to be a big player.


Next rocket is New Armstrong according to today's PR.

yup i was reading that.  they really wanna compete with spaceX.   i cant wait to see the large drone ship theyll need for this thing.  just over 3 years is a lofty goal, itll be fun to see them try.

yea i read that,  probably a competitor to the BFR.   so exciting!

I think i need to start saving for a trip to florida to try and see one of these mammoths launch

[Legend]

yup i was reading that.  they really wanna compete with spaceX.   i cant wait to see the large drone ship theyll need for this thing.  just over 3 years is a lofty goal, itll be fun to see them try.

yea i read that,  probably a competitor to the BFR.   so exciting!

I think i need to start saving for a trip to florida to try and see one of these mammoths launch

Pretty sure this thing is only designed for landing back at the launch site.  Transportation on a barge would be far too costly and time consuming imo.

[DD_Bwest]

Pretty sure this thing is only designed for landing back at the launch site.  Transportation on a barge would be far too costly and time consuming imo.

hmm, cool if true.   SpaceX has some practice hitting the drone ship before they went RTLS.   itll be fun to see how they do compared to spacex in that respect.

[NeverDies]

Here's a rendering of Blue Origin's launch complex, combining LC-36 and LC-11 into a single complex. pic.twitter.com/0haY9skJCv

— Edward Ellegood (@FLSPACErePORT) September 9, 2016

Hey, rockets are good for war too...

It looks like Kerbal Space Program.

[DD_Bwest]

they must be playing on the experimental 1.2 lol

nice looking complex tho!   3 years will be a tight schedule

[darkknightkryta]

Warp Drive or GTFO