{"id":88843,"date":"2019-03-21T07:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/blue-origin-studying-repurposing-of-new-glenn-upper-stages"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:45:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:45:21","slug":"blue-origin-studying-repurposing-of-new-glenn-upper-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/blue-origin-studying-repurposing-of-new-glenn-upper-stages","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin studying repurposing of New Glenn upper stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-origin-studying-repurposing-of-new-glenn-upper-stages.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SILVER SPRING, Md. \u2014 Blue Origin has studied repurposing upper stages of its future New Glenn launch vehicle to serve as habitats or for other applications as part of a series of NASA-funded commercialization studies.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Alexander, vice president of government sales and strategy at Blue Origin, said the company looked at ways it could make use of the second stage of New Glenn rather than simply deorbiting the stage at the end of each launch, but emphasized the company currently had no firm plans to reuse those stages at this time.<\/p>\n<p>That study was part of a series of study contracts awarded by NASA last August to study future concepts to support commercial human spaceflight in low Earth orbit. \u201cWe focused there on the reuse of the second stage of New Glenn and what we might be able to do with that volume and capacity once we\u2019re on orbit,\u201d he said during a panel discussion about low Earth orbit commercialization at the American Astronautical Society\u2019s Goddard Memorial Symposium here March 20.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/blue-origin-studying-repurposing-of-new-glenn-upper-stages\/\">https:\/\/spacenews.com\/blue-origin-studying-repurposing-of-ne...er-stages\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SILVER SPRING, Md. \u2014 Blue Origin has studied repurposing upper stages of its future New Glenn launch vehicle to serve as habitats or for other applications as part of a series of NASA-funded commercialization studies. Brett Alexander, vice president of government sales and strategy at Blue Origin, said the company looked at ways it could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}