NET - Blue Origin - New Glenn - Maiden Flight - LC-36 - CCSFS - Space Affairs Live
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Launch Date: December 2024 (TBD)
Launch Time: TBD
Launch Window: TBD
Launch Status: Planned
Launch Target: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Mission: Maiden Flight of New Glenn
Launch Contractor: Blue Origin
Launch Provider: Blue Origin
Launcher System: New Glenn
Launch Location: Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Booster Landing: Landing Barge "Jacklyn" (GSI-SNN001)
The maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. It will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and hoisting platform and serve as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight.
About the New Glenn:
New Glenn is a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin. It is named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.[6] New Glenn is a two-stage rocket with a diameter of 7 m (23 ft). Its first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines, which Blue Origin designed and manufactured. It launches from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36. The inaugural vehicle was unveiled on the launch pad in February 2024.
Development of the New Glenn rocket started before 2013 and was formally announced in 2016, with an inaugural flight slated for 2020. After multiple delays over five years, as of September 2024, the first launch is expected to occur no earlier than by the end of November, carrying the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and hoisting platform. In May 2024, it was announced the spacecraft reached substantial completion in preparation for launch later in the year.
The New Glenn is a 7 m (23 ft) diameter two-stage orbital launch vehicle with a reusable first stage and an expendable second stage. An optional third stage was envisaged with a single BE-3U engine and was planned as of October 2018.
The first stage is designed to be reusable for at least 25 flights. It will land vertically, a technology previously developed by Blue Origin and tested in 2015–2016 on its New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle. The second stage will share the same diameter as the first and use two BE-3U vacuum-optimized engines. It will use hydrogen/oxygen as a fuel and will be expendable. This engine is manufactured by Blue Origin. The company has revealed the planned total operational payload capacity of the two-stage version of New Glenn as 13,000 kg (29,000 lb) to GTO and 45,000 kg (99,000 lb) to a 51.6° inclined LEO. However, the initial operating capability may be somewhat lower. Dual-satellite launches will be offered after the first five flights.
Both stages will use ortho-grid aluminum tanks with welded aluminum domes and standard bulkheads. Both stages will also use autogenous pressurization. The first stage will be powered by seven BE-4 methane/oxygen engines — designed and manufactured by Blue Origin — producing 17,000 kN (3,800,000 lbf) of liftoff thrust. The second stage will be powered by two BE-3U engines, which are also designed and manufactured by Blue Origin. BE-3Us are an expander cycle variant of the BE-3 engine, explicitly intended for upper stages. Preliminary design numbers from 2015 projected the BE-3U to have a vacuum thrust of 670 kN (150,000 lbf).
New Glenn launches will be made from Launch Complex 36 (LC-36), which Blue Origin leased in 2015. A launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base is also planned. New Glenn will also be available for space tourism flights, with priority given to New Shepard customers.
New Glenn's first-stage boosters are intended to be reusable and were initially designed to be recovered downrange on the Atlantic Ocean via their landing platform ship, Jacklyn (GS1-SN001). The ship acts as a floating, movable landing platform, and its hydrodynamically stabilized ship would have increased the likelihood of successful recovery in rough seas.
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