CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — On Tuesday Blue Origin shared pictures of ‘pathfinder’, a mockup of its New Glenn rocket as it was delivered to Cape Canaveral.
The full-sized model will allow Blue Origin to perform a series of tests in preparation for its New Glenn heavy lift rocket’s first launch.
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Named after pioneering astronaut John Glenn, the orbital-class launch vehicle is the first Blue Origin rocket to be built on Florida’s Space Coast.
The company built a one-million-square-foot complex earlier this year to manufacture the rocket.
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When complete, the heavy-lift launch vehicle is capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to Earth’s orbit and beyond.
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New Glenn will lift off from launch complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station sometime in late 2022.
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