{"id":17152,"date":"2024-12-27T20:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-completes-its-last-major-test-to-get-ready-for-first-new-glenn-rocket-launch\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T20:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:24:40","slug":"blue-origin-completes-its-last-major-test-to-get-ready-for-first-new-glenn-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-completes-its-last-major-test-to-get-ready-for-first-new-glenn-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin completes its last major test to get ready for first New Glenn rocket launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/241227-newglenn-630x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-853508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/241227-newglenn-630x437.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/241227-newglenn-1260x875.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/241227-newglenn-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/241227-newglenn-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/241227-newglenn-2048x1422.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"wp-element-caption\">The New Glenn rocket executes an integrated vehicle hotfire on its Florida launch pad. (Blue Origin Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture says it\u2019s put its orbital-class New Glenn rocket through its last major test in preparation for its first-ever launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext stop launch,\u201d Bezos said in a posting to the X social-media platform.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s CEO, Dave Limp, went into a bit more detail: \u201cAll we have left to do is mate our encapsulated payload \u2026 and then LAUNCH!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s integrated vehicle hotfire test took place just hours after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a five-year license for New Glenn launches and landings. The first launch hasn\u2019t yet been officially scheduled but could take place in early January. \u201cWe are really close, folks,\u201d Limp said in an earlier X update.<\/p>\n<p>New Glenn, which is named after the late astronaut and senator John Glenn, has been in the works for more than a decade. The first launch will send up Blue Origin\u2019s Blue Ring Pathfinder, a demonstrator spacecraft that will test the communications, power and control systems for the company\u2019s Blue Ring space mobility platform.<\/p>\n<p>During today\u2019s pre-launch rehearsal, all seven of New Glenn\u2019s first-stage BE-4 engines fired simultaneously for 24 seconds while the booster was held down on the pad. The engines were brought up to 100% thrust for 13 of those seconds.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IGNITION! Blue Origin New Glenn First Hot Fire\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aq0nr_VxBCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>At their maximum, New Glenn\u2019s first-stage engines are designed to generate 3.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, which is about half the thrust that was produced by the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo era. Limp wrote that the seven BE-4 engines \u201cproduce enough horsepower to propel two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers at full tilt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Jones, Blue Origin\u2019s senior vice president for New Glenn, said today\u2019s hotfire test was \u201ca monumental milestone and a glimpse of what\u2019s just around the corner for New Glenn\u2019s first launch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s success proves that our rigorous approach to testing \u2014 combined with our incredible tooling and design engineering \u2014 is working as intended,\u201d Jones said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin says it has several New Glenn vehicles in production at its Florida factory, and has filled out a \u201cfull customer manifest\u201d for launches in the months ahead. High-profile missions include satellite launches to low Earth orbit for Amazon\u2019s Project Kuiper broadband constellation and the launch of twin orbiters for NASA\u2019s ESCAPADE mission to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>New Glenn\u2019s first launch will be part of the certification process for the U.S. Space Force\u2019s National Security Space Launch program. The first-stage booster is designed to fly itself back to a barge at sea for recovery, and Limp has said that a recovery attempt would be part of the plan for the first launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re calling New Glenn\u2019s first booster \u2018So You\u2019re Telling Me There\u2019s a Chance,\u2019\u201d he wrote on X in September. \u201cWhy? No one has landed a reusable booster on the first try. Yet, we\u2019re going for it, and humbly submit having good confidence in landing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Glenn rocket executes an integrated vehicle hotfire on its Florida launch pad. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture says it\u2019s put its orbital-class New Glenn rocket through its last major test in preparation for its first-ever launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. \u201cNext stop launch,\u201d Bezos said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4459,509,510],"class_list":["post-17152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-be-4-rocket-engine","tag-blue-origin","tag-new-glenn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}