Blue Origin se sprema za treći let rakete New Glenn (NG‑3), koja bi mogla poleteti već 17. aprila iz Cape Canaverala, ukoliko pretestovi prođu uspešno. Misija će lansirati veliki AST SpaceMobile Block 2 satelit sa panelima do 2.400 kvadratnih stopa (~223 m²). Pre lansiranja očekuje se "hot fire" test motora, a kompanija istovremeno razvija veću varijantu New Glenn 9x4 i planira bezposadnu misiju landera Blue Moon ka južnom polu Meseca 2026.
Blue Origin Spreman Za NG‑3: Kada Bi New Glenn Mogao Ponovo Poleteti i Šta To Znači
The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket was on the pad this a.m.
Blue Origin, kompanija Jeffa Bezosa, sprema treće lansiranje svoje teške rakete New Glenn — misiju označenu kao NG‑3 — nakon što je raketa stavljena uspravno na lansirni kompleks u Cape Canaveralu. Iako još nema zvaničnog datuma, FAA je u okviru svog plana naveo mogućnost lansiranja već 17. aprila, što znači da bi ključno pretestiranje moglo uslediti u narednim danima.
Šta Donosi Misija NG‑3?
Misija NG‑3 treba da u nisku orbitu postavi širokopojasni satelit kompanije AST SpaceMobile — Block 2 BlueBird — čiji komunikacioni paneli mogu dostići površinu do 2.400 kvadratnih stopa (oko 223 m²), što bi ovaj uređaj činilo jednim od najvećih komercijalnih satelita u niskoj orbiti Zemlje.
Gde Je Raketa Sad i koji su naredni koraci?
New Glenn stoji uspravno na lansirnom kompleksu 36 u Cape Canaveralu od 13. aprila. Pre nego što kompanija najavi konačan datum, očekuje se preletni test poznat kao "hot fire" — paljenje i probni rad motora dok je raketa na stalku kako bi se potvrdila ispravnost sistema.
Tehnički Pregled
New Glenn je dvostepena teška raketa visoka oko 320 stopa (~98 m) sa feringom širokim skoro 23 stope (~7 m). Prvi stepen pokreće sedam BE‑4 motora, dok gornji stepen koristi dva BE‑3U motora prilagođena radu u vakuumu. Prema Blue Originu, prvi stepen je projektovan za višekratnu upotrebu — najmanje 25 letova.
Širi Kontekst i Budući Planovi
Blue Origin planira da New Glenn koristi za isporuke Amazonovih LEO satelita (ranije Project Kuiper), za svoju TeraWave inicijativu i za komercijalne lansiranja za klijente poput telekom operatera i NASA‑e. Nakon lansiranja u novembru (misija NG‑2), kompanija je najavila rad na većoj varijanti, New Glenn 9x4, koja bi bila visoka skoro 400 stopa (~122 m) i opremljena sa devet motora u prvom i četiri u drugom stepenu. Blue Origin procenjuje da će ta konfiguracija dati oko 5,7 miliona funti potiska (~25 MN) pri poletanju, dok bi drugi stepen dodatno proizveo oko 800.000 funti (~3,6 MN) potiska.
New Glenn i Mesečeve Misije
Blue Origin i SpaceX razvijaju lunarne landere za potrebe NASA‑inog Artemis programa. Blue Origin planira da kasnije 2026. iskoristi New Glenn za lansiranje bezposadnog Mark 1 izdanja landera Blue Moon na izviđačku misiju ka južnom polu Meseca — važan korak u takmičenju za podršku narednim Artemis misijama.
Dosadašnji Rezultati
New Glenn je debitovao u januaru 2025. Prvi stepen je uspešno prizemljen na brod‑dron imenovan Jacklyn tokom poslednje misije NG‑2 13. novembra, što je značajan napredak u odnosu na neuspeh pri sletanju tokom debija 16. januara 2025.
Kratak Podsetnik O Kompaniji
Jeff Bezos je osnovao Blue Origin 2000. godine. Kompanija je postala poznata i po podorbitalnim letovima letelicom New Shepard iz Teksasa, koji su bili privremeno pauzirani. New Glenn nosi ime po astronautu Johnu Glennu, prvom Amerikancu koji je obišao Zemlju.
Napomena: Iako postoji mogućnost lansiranja 17. aprila prema FAA planer‑obaveštenju, Blue Origin do objave nije potvrdio zvaničan termin. Moguće izmene rasporeda zavise od rezultata pretestova i vremenskih uslova.
The Artemis II mission launches April 1 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The four-person crew aboard the Orion spacecraft hitched a ride to orbit atop NASA's giant 322-foot Space Launch System rocket. Launching atop 8.8 million pounds of thrust, the SLS is the most powerful rocket NASA ever launched, about 17% more powerful than the iconic Saturn V rocket used during the Apollo era.
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman of NASA took this stunning photograph of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2. The image is reminiscent of the iconic "blue marble" image captured during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch, a mission specialist on Artemis II, gazes out the windows of the Orion vehicle back at Earth as she and the crew head toward the moon. Koch, who already holds several NASA records from her first spaceflight in 2019 to the International Space Station, became the first woman to fly on a lunar mission.
Before going to sleep April 5, the Artemis II crew snapped one more photo of the moon, as it drew close in the window of the Orion spacecraft. Shortly after, the astronauts entered the lunar sphere of influence, where the pull of the moon's gravity became stronger than Earth's.
The crew of Artemis II captured a breathtaking image of a celestial event known as an "Earthset," in which the Earth dropped below the lunar horizon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic "Earthrise" photo that NASA astronaut Bill Anders captured in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission that showed our planet rising on the lunar horizon.
Of the impact craters, ancient lava flows and other lunar features the Artemis II astronauts observed during an April 6 flyby, a crater known as the Orientale basin was perhaps the most prominent. Spanning nearly 600 miles, the 3.8 billion year old crater (seen in the upper center of this photo) had never been seen with the naked eye prior to the mission.
The Orion spacecraft the Artemis II astronauts were aboard is captured in the same frame as both the moon and Earth in this photo captured about four hours into the historic April 6 flyby.
This image shows the moon fully eclipsing the sun from the vantage of the Orion spacecraft, not unlike what millions of people witnessed in April 2024 from Earth. From the crew’s perspective, the moon appeared large enough to completely block the sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and revealing our star's elusive outermost layer, known as the corona.
The crew members of Artemis II embrace following the historic lunar flyby April 6, during which the astronauts flew farther from Earth than anyone in human history while seeing sights of the moon's far side never seen in person.
The Artemis II crew captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center.
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