# video | Blue Origin showed how its New Glenn rockets would fly and land

Just today, Jeff Bezos, head of the Blue Origin aerospace company, shared a few photos on his Twitter page with a fully assembled BE-4 rocket engine, which the company is going to use in its new launch vehicle New Glenn. At this Bezos decided not to stop and now he has already shared animated videos about how this rocket will fly.

According to the plans, the New Glenn launch vehicle will be able to put into a low near-earth orbit a payload weighing up to 50 tons or up to 14 tons into a geosynchronous orbit, after which its first stage will produce a soft controlled landing on a floating platform (hello to Ilon Mask with his floating barge "Of Course I Still Love You"). It should be noted that the company had already landed the first stages of its more compact New Shepherd rocket on firm ground several times, however, in terms of complexity, these launches could not be compared with the orbital launches of the Falcon 9 rocket, which had been landing after orbit

At the last Satellite 2017 event, Jeff Bezos also told that the first private client of the company who is going to use the launch vehicle New Glenn will be Eutelsat, a French television corporation and mobile communications provider, which is going to launch a new geostationary satellite into orbit. This should happen, according to a press release Eutelsat, somewhere in the years 2021-2022.

Bezos also shared that the key task of his company is to reduce the cost of satellite launches, that is, about the same thing that the same SpaceX wants to achieve. The new carrier rocket "New Glenn" will be presented in two versions. The one that will consist of two stages and use several BE-4 engines is shown in the animated video. The three-stage version will be used by the company to deliver the Blue Moon landing module to the moon. True, none of these versions will rise into space at least until 2020.

When watching an animated video, it becomes clear how much the New Glenn will differ from the same Falcon 9 rockets from SpaceX. The Blue Origin launch vehicle, for example, will use the aerodynamic control system that will assist and guide the first step of the New Glenn during landing. It is reported that, among other things, such a system will negate the need to use a brake pulse when re-entering the atmosphere.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/technology/video-kompaniya-blue-origin-pokazala-kak-budut-letat-i-saditsya-ee-rakety-new-glenn.html.