Like SpaceX, Blue Origin will develop a second stage on the New Glenn rocket

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company recently shone with the first manned launch of its New Shepard launcher. But the aerospace company’s plans do not end there. Indeed, Jeff Bezos’ company is currently developing a 95-meter-high rocket called New Glenn.

This rocket should offer a lifting capacity of up to fourteen tonnes in geostationary orbit and up to fifty tonnes in low earth orbit. This second rocket stage will also be reusable and made of stainless steel. The company’s objective would thus be to reduce the costs of access to space.

Blue Origin could test this second floor this fall

Until now, Blue Origin has focused on reusing the first stage of its launcher. Like its rival, SpaceX, it aimed to land this launcher at sea vertically on a dedicated barge. Moreover, even if the New Glenn has not yet made the slightest flight, Blue Origin has already taken care to rectify certain points based on the experience of SpaceX.

Based on information fromArs Technica, three sources said Blue Origin has started work on a project to develop a fully reusable upper stage for its New Glenn launcher that could use stainless steel propellant tanks. If this Blue Origin project, known as the “Jarvis project” comes to fruition, then the first tests could begin as early as this fall in Texas.