Blue Origin is adding a unexampled re - useable rocket to its static — and it ’s a big one . take on the New Glenn , a 23 - foot diam rocket salad booster with 3.85 million pounds of poking .
Company founder Jeff Bezos announced the new rocket mannikin today , along with a graphic comparing it to some other heavy rockets . The New Glenn crests to 313 understructure grandiloquent in its three - stage version — just below the man ’s tallest rocket the 363 - ft Saturn V.
Although it ’s the grandiloquent ( except for the now - defunct Saturn V ) it wo n’t needs be the most powerful . SpaceX ’s forthcoming Falcon Heavy is speculate to be capable togenerate 5 millionpounds of knife thrust to New Glenn ’s 3.85 million . Saturn V was able-bodied to generateover 7 millionpounds .
Still , this is an incredibly powerful garden rocket that signals some deeper distance ambition from the company . “ The 3 - degree variant — with its in high spirits specific impulse hydrogen upper phase — is equal to of wing demanding beyond - LEO missions , ” Bezos noted .
The projectile is named for astronaut John Glenn and Blue Origin expects it to fly by the remainder of the decade . They also released the name of another upcoming roquette serial , New Armstrong , although no item on that have yet come out .
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