{"id":96089,"date":"2019-09-11T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/blue-origin-continuing-work-on-new-glenn-launch-complex-support-facilities"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:43:14","slug":"blue-origin-continuing-work-on-new-glenn-launch-complex-support-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/blue-origin-continuing-work-on-new-glenn-launch-complex-support-facilities","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin continuing work on New Glenn launch complex, support facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-origin-continuing-work-on-new-glenn-launch-complex-support-facilities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Work on Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn launch complex \u2013 LC-36 \u2013 is well underway. Recent aerial imagery of Cape Canaveral from NOAA shows how far Blue has come on the launch complex. Meanwhile, the company is also working on an engine factory in Alabama, and a first stage refurbishment facility near Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LC-36 \u2013 from Atlas-Centaur to New Glenn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/?s=LC-36\">LC-36 was originally constructed to launch the Atlas-Centaur<\/a> \u2013 with its revolutionary liquid hydrogen-powered upper stage. The complex hosted its first launch on May 18, 1962. Due to the Atlas-Centaur\u2019s increasing flight rate \u2013 and low reliability early on \u2013 a second pad \u2013 LC-36B \u2013 was built near the existing LC-36A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn launch complex \u2013 LC-36 \u2013 is well underway. Recent aerial imagery of Cape Canaveral from NOAA shows how far Blue has come on the launch complex. Meanwhile, the company is also working on an engine factory in Alabama, and a first stage refurbishment facility near Kennedy Space Center. LC-36 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96089","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=96089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}