{"id":23980,"date":"2024-08-13T19:28:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/new-glenns-maiden-flight-approaches-as-hardware-undergoes-testing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:13:13","slug":"new-glenns-maiden-flight-approaches-as-hardware-undergoes-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/new-glenns-maiden-flight-approaches-as-hardware-undergoes-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Glenn\u2019s maiden flight approaches as hardware undergoes testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

With flight hardware being tested, recovery rehearsals underway, and production facilities growing, Blue Origin is becoming a hive of more visible activity as the company rapidly approaches the first flight of its orbital class rocket, New Glenn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

New Glenn Testing<\/p>\n

Over the past few months, Blue Origin has performed many important tests of New Glenn hardware at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36). These are all important for gathering data before the rocket\u2019s first flight.<\/p>\n

In early July, retraction tests of the New Glenn transporter erector (TE) system were performed at LC-36. These tests involved the large TE pulling back from the vehicle and disconnecting umbilicals from the first and second stages. Blue completed these tests over just a few days before lowering the TE and the simulator stages back to horizontal and rolling them back inside the hangar.<\/p>\n