In some ways, New Glenn is only a huge rocket.
It’s 320 ft tall. That could be a bit greater than the Statue of Liberty and its base. At liftoff, practically 4 million kilos of thrust spewing from seven booster engines will push the rocket upward. Its voluminous nostril cone, 23 ft broad in diameter, will have the ability to maintain payloads which are bodily bigger than different rockets in operation at present.
New Glenn, nonetheless, is just not the largest rocket. NASA’s Area Launch System and SpaceX’s Starship are each taller and extra highly effective. The Blue Origin rocket doesn’t depend on never-before-seen, whiz-bang applied sciences. It’s not totally reusable, in contrast to what SpaceX is making an attempt to make potential with Starship.
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Area Shuttle
By way of know-how, New Glenn is much like however greater than the Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX’s present workhorse. The booster stage of New Glenn — the most costly a part of the rocket — is designed to land on a barge within the Atlantic Ocean, much like how SpaceX recovers Falcon 9 boosters. The second stage, like these of virtually all rockets in use at present, will likely be discarded and expend within the ambiance.
But when New Glenn proves to be dependable and inexpensive, it ought to have the ability to carve out a worthwhile slice of the enterprise of launching payloads to area for NASA, the Division of Protection and industrial corporations.
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