Blue Origin has officially announced that its next-generation New Glenn rocket will launch NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission in a flight targeted for no earlier than mid-August 2025.

The seven BE-4 engines needed for the first flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket were installed on the first-stage booster seen in this handout image from Oct. 24, 2024.

Blue Origin’s ambitious heavy-lift rocket New Glenn is set to take its second flight with a groundbreaking mission that will ...

Blue Origin's first launch of its New Glenn rocket was supposed to send up a pair of Mars-bound satellites for NASA, but ...

Had New Glenn launched then, the twin spacecraft would have taken advantage of the planetary alignment that shortens the travel time to the Red Planet, an average of 140 million miles away from Earth.

As The New York Times reports, Blue Origin had to attempt the countdown several times over a few hours, but the company managed to ignite and fire New Glenn's seven engines for 24 seconds in the end.

An aerial view of Blue Origin's engine test facility in West Texas, where the BE-3U engines for New Glenn's upper stage are being tested. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin conducts an engine ...

At their maximum, New Glenn’s first-stage engines are designed to generate 3.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, which is about half the thrust that was produced by the Saturn V rocket of the ...

New Glenn rockets are more than twice as powerful than Falcon 9 with the first stage powered by seven of Blue’s BE-4 engines, the same that are used on United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rockets.

Vulcan rockets use only two, while New Glenn’s seven engines will give it more than 3.8 million pounds of thrust on liftoff.

New Glenn’s engines briefly lit up during a planned test, the final step before the new heavy-lift rocket takes flight, becoming a potential rival to SpaceX. BY KIT EATON @ KITEATON Dec 31, 2024 ...

Vulcan rockets are expendable, though, while New Glenn looks to reuse its first-stage booster and the seven engines powering it. Similar to SpaceX Falcon 9 boosters, New Glenn boosters aim for a ...