Blue Origin studies repurposing of New Glenn upper stages

摘要

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 make use of the second stage of New Glenn rather than simply deorbit-ing the stage at the end of each launch, but emphasized the company currently had no firm plans to reuse those stages at this time.