{"id":23006,"date":"2020-12-17T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-selected-to-join-nasas-launch-services-program\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:24:53","slug":"blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-selected-to-join-nasas-launch-services-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-selected-to-join-nasas-launch-services-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket selected to join NASA\u2019s Launch Services Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-rocket.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-rocket.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-rocket.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-rocket.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-rocket.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"8894\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2020\/12\/16\/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-selected-to-join-nasas-launch-services-program\/blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-rocket.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Blue Origin New Glenn rocket\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: New Glenn<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-rocket.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: New Glenn\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA\u2019s Launch Services Program is designed to help launch uncrewed rockets that deliver spacecraft into orbit or farther out into the universe. The latest company to benefit from the program is Blue Origin, as NASA has announced that the company will be awarded a Launch Services II contract.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-8893\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new contract specifically grants <em>Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn launch vehicle<\/em> the authorization to launch planetary, Earth observation, exploration, and scientific satellites for NASA. Now, NASA centers have the ability to design spacecraft that can utilize New Glenn\u2019s seven-meter fairing and outstanding lift performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jarrett Jones, senior vice president, New Glenn, Blue Origin, had the following to say on the new contract:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to be in NASA\u2019s launch services catalog and look forward to providing reliable launches for future NASA missions aboard New Glenn for years to come. The award builds on Blue Origin\u2019s existing partnership with NASA and will advance science and exploration to benefit Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA\u2019s Launch Services contractors are required to have the ability to successfully launch and deliver payloads to Earth orbit using a domestic launch service. More specifically, that launch service must also be capable of putting a 551-pound payload into a 124-mile circular orbit \u2014 something the New Glenn rocket should definitely be capable of doing.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-8893',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via <em>NASA<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"enjoy-reading-space-explored\">Enjoy reading Space Explored?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[],"class_list":["post-23006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006"}],"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=23006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}