Blue Origin, the space company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is developing a heavy-lift launcher called New Glenn, far more powerful than the New Shepard rocket used for space tourists. The rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as soon as Wednesday 1:00 am (0600 GMT), with a backup window on Friday, according to a Federal Aviation Administration advisory. VIDEOGRAPHIC
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00:00Blue Origin, the space company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is developing a heavy-lift launcher
00:12called New Glenn, far more powerful than the new Shepard rocket used for space tourists.
00:17At 98 meters long, the rocket can carry up to 45 tons into low-Earth orbit.
00:23This is about double the weight of SpaceX Falcon 9 by Elon Musk, but still less than
00:28the Falcon Heavy at 63.8 tons.
00:32New Glenn is an essential component of the lunar landing system ordered by NASA from
00:37Blue Origin for the Artemis V mission.
00:41The launcher will carry the Blue Moon lunar lander, which is 1060 meters high and weighs
00:4645 tons, when filled with propellants, liquid hydrogen, and liquid oxygen.
00:58NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology