New Glenn is Blue Origin’s heavy-lift booster rocket, ... Like Falcon 9, New Glenn’s first stage contains engines that can be re-lit during descent to allow a soft landing, ...

It will cost about $5-10 billion with the SLS and Orion systems. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy option with modified Dragon would cost about $2-3 billion. Alternative vehicle costs: Falcon Heavy: Approximately ...

While New Glenn was mostly successful on its first launch, this is only the first launch of a reusable rocket designed to compete with SpaceX’s well-established Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.

New Glenn is significantly taller than the Falcon Heavy, which debuted in February 2018 and currently has 11 missions under its belt. Falcon Heavy, like the Falcon 9, stands 230 feet (70 m) tall.

New Glenn first stages are designed for a minimum of 25 flights. The liquid-hydrogen-powered upper stage can carry 45 metric tons of cargo to low-Earth orbit and more than 13 metric tons to a far ...

The New Glenn creates about 3.9 million pounds of thrust at launch — more than double that of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket but less than SpaceX’s heavy-lift Falcon Heavy.

Blue Origin formally announced the development of New Glenn — which aims to outpower SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and haul spacecraft up to 45 metric tons (99,200 pounds) to orbit — in 2016.

And just like SpaceX's Falcon 9, Blue Origin is going to try to land the massive New Glenn first stage on a recovery ship, known as Jacklyn, waiting in the Atlantic Ocean.

Falcon Heavy's major advantage is power: It's essentially a Falcon 9 but with three core boosters strapped together. ... That change arguably begins with New Glenn, ...

The New Glenn rocket, built by Bezos' space company Blue Origin, is not nearly as powerful, but it will compete head-to-head with SpaceX's industry-dominating Falcon 9-family rockets.

While New Glenn was mostly successful on its first launch, this is only the first launch of a reusable rocket designed to compete with SpaceX’s well-established Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.