A Closer Look At New Glenn & Its Progress

Many different companies within the space industry are working on new and ambitious projects for the future. Blue Origin is no exception with the development of New Glenn. While this next generation launch vehicle has experienced quite a few delays, the company is continuing to work and attempting to launch the rocket for the first time not very long from now.

New Glenn is special for many different reasons. Whether you are looking at the design or aspects of reusability, Blue Origin is trying to change how we access space. These ambitious goals are great for the future, but also bring along a lot of risks. The company has had success with New Shepard however this is a completely different obstacle.

Different features of New Glenn make the launch vehicle stand out from others within the industry. This includes its power, configuration, performance, etc. All of which combines into a single rocket with a lot of expectations for the future. Here I will go more in-depth into some of the progress Blue Origin has made, delays, the design of the rocket, and more.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:04 - New Glenn's Progress
2:46 - New Glenn Features

[adamlong]

Thank you for being one of the few YouTube’s that don’t constantly give Blue crap! I wanna see more rockets launch not just spacex

[snakeification]

"New Glenn was selected by Amazon"... ROFL...

[xymaryai]

this was an amazingly verbose and detailed video, i learned more from this than all other videos i've ever watched about New Glenn

[tiapc]

She is a beauty of a Rocket. As a fan, I would like to see more updates from Blue Origin.

[snakeification]

Might fly in 2025. Pretty sure Neutron will fly before this does.

[edouardl]

Actually, for such a secretive company, it is a change to have at least some information. Now, apart from what we know already from Wikipedia and BO website, there is very little more from this video. We didn't really need to be informed that BO is late but we would have liked to know why and what is the future of the company. What I would have liked more would be about detailing the difficulties encountered, the reusable second stage project and so on. Nice pictures but nothing new under the sun. After all the setbacks encountered, it would have been wiser to give real information.

[sonofamortician]

so when is it going to be ready? the BE4 engines are very late, I believe 4 years late for ULA? So really need to get them into space now.

[walterrwrush]

with the length of time it has taken to build can they afford to have a launch failure and not put them years behind schedule

[marcopolo]

An excellent video indeed. Thanks for the non biased approach. Too many salty youtubers out there can't cover Blue Origins progress without the unnecessary snide remarks. Even the comments here struggle to give any perspective on the commercial space race we are so privileged to be living under. Instead it's filled with an irrational sense of prejudice and disdain for an industry they will never understand.

I take no credence to the naysayers. And am glad Bezos and Blue Origin don't either. Because most are space X fanboys are here for the luls and have minimal industry knowledge or experience. This in of itself should serve Bezos as a reminder that fanboyism is part and parcel to the political climate such big space companies attract, but by no means is it a measure of or reflection on what Blue Origin can achieve in future.

[brianressler]

Good to see them making some progress on this thing at least, still seems kind of absurd that after all these years, they haven't gotten anything into orbit, but I hope they succeed with New Glenn. It would be great to have another major provider with full reusability (unless their initial plan is to have non reusable 2nd stage, but either way still a good thing)

[mauricegold]

This is not a progress report, so much as an unabashed ad for a totally untested unbuilt system. Just getting a single BE-4 engine to fire and gimbal is not a mere hop away from flight-readiness. it is a gargantuan chasm. There have been no cryo-tests, no real-world engine pairings, no fuel-tank leak-proofings. Nothing, nada, zilch. There has been no construction of a prototype first-stage, or second-stage for that matter. No testing of flights and landings of any simplified prototype booster (well there wouldn't be cos it doesn't exist). And as for the much-vaunted barge-landing, if SpaceX which inexplicably doesn't get mentioned, took years to perfect, all in the public eye (and all the time delivering customer payloads to orbit), this fantasy-rocket has had no prototyping, and is expected to work perfectly first time. Good joke that. Just recall Boeing Starliner test. 10 years in development. Extensive simulation. Big failure. Stupid errors led to mission-failure on first flight, and near loss of Starliner capsule. No iterative real-world testing. This is a folly, and I hope it fails too.

[maxhugen]

Landing the booster on a ship at sea? Who would have thought of that! 🤣

[jaycarlson]

To many details, and not enough story…

[haydenr]

in the most not-rude way possible: if youre using an AI to voice this, it sucks. If you're voicing this, please dude add some inflection to your voice. no matter how you sound youd sound better than this AI, I litterally couldnt bare to watch the video

[melplishka]

So are they able too maintain full thrust capability for the time needed to get too orbit ? Lol. Not just a 5 sec burst then throttle down again.

[maawmakhiangte]

New Glen need more than a decade to launch orbital payload successfuly.. Bezos rocket company Was already two decade working company, but, not launch any things to orbit till now.!??

[anthonykevinkerr]

This was a sales pitch. The New Glenn animation has been around for years already. A lot of aspirational detail easy to produce without any hardware. The key point is an estimated launch in 2023. If everything goes to plan, and that is a big if, considering Sue Origins snail like progress so far, it will be in competition with SpaceX's starship which has greater payload capacity and probably much cheaper and Vulcan if it ever gets working BE4 engines.
A nice clean but largely empty factory. II New Glenn is delayed another year or so then Elon might consider buying it for extra storage.

[shannonwoodcock]

Talk - Talk - Talk - Talk

It seems to be the only thing Blue Origin can do

Let me know when they can get their asses into orbit. Pop shot carnival rides for celebrities do not count.

[mjw]

What do blue origin engineers do all day? How can they be this slow? I want this rocket to fly, but they do nothing.

[steveo]

I bet New Glenn doesn't fly until 2025; Blue Origin, with their current CEO, is more like an "old space" company, where things progress at a much slower pace.