Blue Origin hauls massive New Glenn 1st stage to launch site with hot fire up next

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Blue Origin hauled the immense first stage booster for its upcoming debut launch of its New Glenn rocket to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October 30th.

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp posted images to social media showing the 188-foot-long first stage with its seven BE-4 engines wrapped up in coverings with not-so-little Blue Origin logos making the trip from its factory in Merritt Island adjacent the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex over to its future launch site at Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 36.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company is still aiming for a November launch of the heavy-lift rocket, which, when combined with the second stage and fairing, would be more than 320 feet tall. The exact date has not been announced, although Port Canaveral officials alluded to a Nov. 30 target date in a recent port commission meeting.

 

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-blue-hauls-massive-glenn-1st.html