Project Kuiper
Amazon's Project Kuiper will fly advanced satellites to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband service globally.
New Glenn
The Workhorse for a New Era
New Glenn is our giant, reusable rocket built for bigger things.
Reusable for Affordability and Availability
New Glenn's first stage is designed for a minimum of 25 flights. By operating like a commercial airliner (but with cleaner fuel), New Glenn will lead to significantly less waste and cost.
Twice the Volume
Seven meters. With twice the volume of smaller, five-meter class payload fairings, customers have more flexibility to package their payload in new ways.
Single Configuration for Maximum Flexibility and Cost Savings
New Glenn is payload- and destination-agnostic to meet the broadest range of customer needs and significantly reduce cost-per-launch.
Liquid Hydrogen-Powered Upper Stage Optimized for Performance
New Glenn will launch payloads into the most energetic orbits, including more than 13 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) and 45 metric tons to low Earth orbit (LEO).
First Step Towards Our Vision
Credit: NASA
New Glenn is engineered with the safety and redundancy required to fly humans. This rocket will enable our vision of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth.
Trusted by the World's Civil, National Security, and Commercial Leaders
See the range of partners already committed to New Glenn. We're proud to support their critical missions.
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NASA
ESCAPADE is a dual spacecraft mission to study solar wind energy on Mars.
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Telesat
Telesat will fly satellites to provide fiber-like broadband services globally.
High-Performing, American-Made Engines
Reusable First Stage Powered by Seven BE-4 Engines
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Powerful
Powered by seven of the most powerful liquid oxygen (LOX) / liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled rocket engines developed since Saturn V’s F1 engines. Each BE-4 engine is reusable and generates 550,000 lbf (2,450 kN) thrust at sea level with deep-throttle capability.
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Proven
Two BE-4 engines drive the first stage of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan vehicle.
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Efficient Propellants
LNG is higher-performing and cleaner-burning than most traditional kerosene-burning engines, thereby improving engine reusability and requiring less total fuel for the same performance.
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American-Made
Full-rate production at Blue Origin’s manufacturing facilities in Kent, WA and Huntsville, AL ends America’s reliance on Russian rocket engine technology.
Two BE-3Us Power Restartable Second Stage
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High-Performing
Each of the two BE-3U engines generates 160,000 lbf (710 kN) of thrust in vacuum. Higher thrust and performance in space means getting to orbit more quickly.
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Pedigree
Built on a decade of operational experience with liquid hydrogen and cryogenic rocket engines, rigorous testing, and successful New Shepard flights.
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American-Made
Like the BE-4, the BE-3U is built at Blue Origin's manufacturing facilities in Kent, WA and Huntsville, AL.
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Mission Agnostic
Optimized to operate in the vacuum of space and enable the full range of customer missions, including direct injection to high-energy orbits.
A Giant Among Rockets
At more than 320 ft (98 m) tall, New Glenn is one of the largest vehicles ever built.
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Seven-Meter Fairing
Twice the volume of traditional five-meter class fairings means room for bigger constellations, heavier payloads, and orbital platforms.
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Upper Stage
Hydrogen-powered upper stage designed for demanding, highly energetic missions to low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), and geosynchronous orbit (GEO).
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BE-3U
Built off of New Shepard’s BE-3 flight heritage, the BE-3U is optimized to operate in the vacuum of space. Its high thrust and high specific impulse upper stage are capable of accomplishing any mission.
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Fins
Four actuated aerodynamic control surfaces for attitude adjustment during the first stage’s descent and landing.
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Reusable First Stage
Designed for reuse and minimal maintenance in between flights.
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Strakes
Wing-like to provide lift and cross-range for the reusable first stage during its descent back to Earth.
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Landing Gear
Aft module houses six hydraulically-actuated legs to support and secure the first stage during landing on a moving platform.
Welcome to the Florida Space Coast
Launched and Refurbished in Cape Canaveral
New Glenn is built, integrated, launched, refurbished, and re-flown within a nine-mile radius of the rocket factory. Located in Exploration Park just outside the gates of Kennedy Space Center, the process starts at Blue Origin's state-of-the-art manufacturing complex, which houses the vehicle's fabrication, integration, and operations facilities, as well as New Glenn Mission Control.
The New Glenn Launch Complex
Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) is located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station just nine miles (14 km) away from the rocket factory. Blue Origin invested more than $1 billion to rebuild the launch site from the ground up. Completed in 2021, LC-36 is the first newly rebuilt launch complex since the 1960s.
The complex is home to New Glenn’s launch pad, vehicle integration, first stage refurbishment, propellant facilities, and environmental control center. LC-36 is the former home of more than 140 Atlas II/III launches, including the Mariner, Pioneer, and Surveyor missions.
A New Glenn Orbital Flight
New Glenn lifts off. Following separation, the first stage autonomously descends to a landing platform located 620 miles (1,000 km) downrange. The two BE-3Us ignite, propelling the second stage into space. The fairing separates, safely delivering the payloads into orbit.
For the Benefit of Earth
A reusable workhorse purpose-built to deliver high volume and mass to orbit, New Glenn is a key to unlocking our long-term vision — a future where people and heavy industries are moved into space to preserve Earth, humanity’s blue origin.
Built by the Best People in Aerospace
New Glenn is built by a diverse, world-class team proud to make progress towards a multi-generational vision of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth.
Fly New Glenn
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