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  "id": "blue-origin-new-glenn",
  "title": "New Glenn",
  "maker": "Blue Origin",
  "maker_type": "Commercial",
  "kind": "mission",
  "category": "launchers",
  "page": "https://spacemushroom.com/space-products/blue-origin-new-glenn/",
  "website": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholderengagement/blue-origin-new-glenn/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-SLC-36-Draft-EA-September-2026-Main.pdf",
  "summary": "Blue Origin's two-stage reusable heavy-lift launcher. Public sources confirm a carbon composite fairing and Constellium aluminium-lithium plate in its structure; little else on materials is published.",
  "application": "Blue Origin's heavy-lift orbital launcher for large satellites, national security and NASA payloads. The 7 m fairing is meant for very large payloads, and the booster is designed to land and be reused.",
  "story": {
    "headline": "New Glenn is Blue Origin's two-stage heavy-lift rocket, with a first stage built to land and fly again.",
    "intro": [
      "New Glenn is a heavy-lift rocket from Blue Origin, built for large satellites and for national security and NASA payloads. It stands about 320 feet tall and 23 feet across. The first stage is designed to land and be flown again, at least 25 times. It first flew on 16 January 2025.",
      "The fairing, the cover that protects the payload, is carbon composite and 7 metres across. Constellium's aluminium-lithium plate goes into both the very cold (cryogenic) and the warmer parts of the structure. Both stages pressurise their tanks with propellant gas instead of helium."
    ],
    "built": [
      {
        "title": "First stage",
        "text": "Seven BE-4 engines burn liquid oxygen and methane. The liquid oxygen tank holds 30,000 cubic feet (850 cubic metres). To land, the booster fires three engines for the re-entry burn and one for the landing burn.",
        "parts": [
          "Reusable first stage (GS1 booster)",
          "BE-4 engines (x7)",
          "First-stage liquid oxygen tank",
          "Autogenous pressurisation (both stages)"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Tanks and bulkheads",
        "text": "Both stages use orthogrid aluminium tanks, with a grid of ribs stiffening the walls. The domes are welded aluminium. Common bulkheads, each a single wall shared by two propellant tanks, keep the propellants apart.",
        "parts": [
          "Orthogrid aluminium tanks with welded domes and common bulkheads (both stages)",
          "Orthogrid aluminium second-stage material",
          "Cryogenic and non-cryogenic structure (part not specified)"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Second stage",
        "text": "Two BE-3U engines, tuned for vacuum, burn liquid hydrogen with liquid oxygen. The stage is about 26.8 metres tall and is not recovered.",
        "parts": [
          "BE-3U engines (x2)",
          "Second-stage structure (expendable)",
          "Common bulkhead (second stage)"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Fairing and separation",
        "text": "The carbon composite fairing is 7 metres across. A separation system releases the first stage about three minutes into flight. A jettison system drops the fairing halves after the booster burn.",
        "parts": [
          "Payload fairing (nose cone)",
          "Stage separation system",
          "Fairing jettison system"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Landing and launch site",
        "text": "The first successful landing came on the second flight, on 13 November 2025, on a sea-going platform called Jacklyn. Blue Origin launches from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral and builds the rocket in a factory near Kennedy Space Center. It is also developing reusable fairings.",
        "parts": [
          "Landing Platform Vessel Jacklyn",
          "Launch Complex 36 (LC-36)",
          "Rocket factory near Kennedy Space Center"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "materials": [
      {
        "name": "Carbon composite",
        "mid": "carbon-fibre",
        "where": "The 7-metre payload fairing."
      },
      {
        "name": "Aluminium-lithium Airware plate",
        "mid": "aluminium-lithium-airware",
        "where": "Constellium plate used in cryogenic and non-cryogenic structure. Blue Origin does not say which parts."
      },
      {
        "name": "Aluminium",
        "mid": "aluminium",
        "where": "Orthogrid tank walls, welded domes and common bulkheads on both stages. Blue Origin does not name the alloy."
      }
    ],
    "connections": "Seven BE-4 engines power the first stage, and Blue Origin plans a larger version with nine. Two BE-3U engines, a vacuum version of the BE-3, power the second stage, and four are planned for the larger rocket. Constellium supplies the aluminium-lithium plate. The vertical landing builds on technology Blue Origin developed earlier, for New Shepard. The first flight carried the Blue Ring Pathfinder, and the second carried NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft.",
    "unknown": "Blue Origin shares its payload guide only on request. It does not describe the tank alloys and grades, the interstage, the landing legs or the thrust structure. Nor does it say which parts use the Constellium plate. Published figures for liftoff thrust disagree.",
    "facts": [
      {
        "label": "Height",
        "value": "about 320 ft"
      },
      {
        "label": "First-stage engines",
        "value": "seven BE-4, LOX and LNG"
      },
      {
        "label": "Second-stage engines",
        "value": "two BE-3U, LOX and LH2"
      },
      {
        "label": "Fairing diameter",
        "value": "7 m"
      },
      {
        "label": "First flight",
        "value": "16 January 2025"
      },
      {
        "label": "First successful booster landing",
        "value": "13 November 2025"
      }
    ]
  },
  "specifications": [
    {
      "label": "Height",
      "value": "about 320 ft",
      "source_url": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholderengagement/blue-origin-new-glenn/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-SLC-36-Draft-EA-September-2026-Main.pdf",
      "quote": "approximately 320 feet tall and 23 feet in diameter"
    },
    {
      "label": "First stage engines",
      "value": "seven BE-4, LOX and LNG",
      "source_url": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholderengagement/blue-origin-new-glenn/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-SLC-36-Draft-EA-September-2026-Main.pdf",
      "quote": "New Glenn's first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines"
    },
    {
      "label": "Second stage engines",
      "value": "two BE-3U, LOX and LH2",
      "source_url": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholderengagement/blue-origin-new-glenn/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-SLC-36-Draft-EA-September-2026-Main.pdf",
      "quote": "the second stage (upper stage) powered by two BE-3U engines"
    },
    {
      "label": "Lift-off thrust",
      "value": "about 4.62 million lbf",
      "source_url": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholderengagement/blue-origin-new-glenn/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-SLC-36-Draft-EA-September-2026-Main.pdf",
      "quote": "the potential to generate approximately 4.62 million lbf of thrust at lift-off as designed"
    },
    {
      "label": "Fairing diameter",
      "value": "7 m",
      "source_url": "https://www.compositestoday.com/2020/03/blue-origin-composites-nose-cone-new-glenn/",
      "quote": "With a diameter of 7 metres"
    },
    {
      "label": "Second-stage thrust (2018 guide)",
      "value": "1060 kN (240,000 lb)",
      "source_url": "https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/blue-origin-reveals-more-details-about-new-glenn",
      "quote": "1060 kN (240,000 lb) total thrust cited for the second stage"
    },
    {
      "label": "Second-stage height",
      "value": "about 26.8 m (88 ft)",
      "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn",
      "quote": "roughly 88 feet (26.8 meters) tall"
    },
    {
      "label": "First-stage LOX tank volume",
      "value": "30,000 cu ft (850 m3)",
      "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn",
      "quote": "Its liquid oxygen propellant tank has a volume of 30,000 cu ft (850 m3)"
    },
    {
      "label": "Design reuse of the first stage",
      "value": "at least 25 flights",
      "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn",
      "quote": "is designed to be reusable for a minimum of 25 flights"
    },
    {
      "label": "First flight (NG-1)",
      "value": "16 January 2025",
      "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn",
      "quote": "Its first flight, NG-1, took place on January 16, 2025"
    },
    {
      "label": "First successful booster landing",
      "value": "13 November 2025",
      "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn",
      "quote": "The first stage achieved its first successful landing on November 13, 2025"
    },
    {
      "label": "9x4 version configuration",
      "value": "9 BE-4 on the first stage, 4 BE-3U on the second stage",
      "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn",
      "quote": "It has nine BE-4 engines on the first stage, four BE-3U engines on the second stage"
    },
    {
      "label": "9x4 version fairing",
      "value": "8.7 m (29 ft) diameter",
      "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn",
      "quote": "a larger payload fairing measuring 8.7 meters (29 ft) in diameter"
    },
    {
      "label": "Stage separation time (NG-2 timeline)",
      "value": "T+00:03:09",
      "source_url": "https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/escapade/2025/11/13/important-launch-milestones-for-nasas-escapade/",
      "quote": "Stage Separation"
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    {
      "text": "Reusable first stage landing on a platform",
      "source_url": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholderengagement/blue-origin-new-glenn/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-SLC-36-Draft-EA-September-2026-Main.pdf",
      "quote": "first stage conducts a platform landing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Payload fairing recovery under development",
      "source_url": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholderengagement/blue-origin-new-glenn/Blue-Origin-New-Glenn-SLC-36-Draft-EA-September-2026-Main.pdf",
      "quote": "is currently pursuing the development of reusable payload fairings"
    },
    {
      "text": "Largest contiguous composite fairing claim by Blue Origin",
      "source_url": "https://www.compositestoday.com/2020/03/blue-origin-composites-nose-cone-new-glenn/",
      "quote": "largest contiguous composites fairing ever built"
    }
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          "quote": "completed the first carbon composite nose cone",
          "source_url": "https://www.compositestoday.com/2020/03/blue-origin-composites-nose-cone-new-glenn/",
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              "source_url": "https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/escapade/2025/11/13/important-launch-milestones-for-nasas-escapade/"
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