Although New Glenn has yet to fly, its BE-4 methane engines have already reached orbit. Twice in 2024 ULA's Vulcan rocket—the successor to the Atlas V, which had been ULA's heavy-lift workhorse ...

While Vulcan only used two BE-4s, the seven on New Glenn can produce 3.85 million pounds of thrust on liftoff, which makes it more than twice as powerful than SpaceX’s Falcon 9, and more ...

New Glenn is the latest in a series of big, new rockets to launch in recent years, including United Launch Alliance's Vulcan, Europe's upgraded Ariane 6 and NASA's Space Launch System or SLS ...