Blastoff! Blue Origin launches reused New Glenn rocket for 1st time, nails landing
Video from the channel VideoFromSpace about New Glenn, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 13:39. Language: English. Video type: Launch.
The mission
The video captures the central segment of Blue Origin's broadcast of a New Glenn launch from Complex LC-36 in Florida. The payload was customer AST's BlueBird 7 satellite, and the first stage (GS1) had already flown before: the hosts celebrate its return home for a second time.
Sequence
After activating the acoustic suppression water system and finishing the countdown, the rocket clears the tower and begins the pitch maneuver. The commentators track the passage through Mach 1 and through maximum dynamic pressure (max Q), main engine cutoff (MECO), stage separation, the ignition of the second stage's (GS2) two BE-3U engines, and payload fairing separation, past the four-minute mark of flight. GS1 reaches apogee and descends toward the Jacklyn offshore landing platform, about 375 miles from the launch site. To do so it re-ignites three engines for reentry, passes through the descent's max Q, and performs the landing burn with three engines, which then throttles down to one.
Result
The first stage touches down on Jacklyn amid the team's applause. Around the 13-minute mark of flight, the first second-stage engine cutoff (SECO 1) is confirmed. The hosts explain that about 70 minutes later a second, shorter burn was scheduled to refine the satellite's orbit. The recording ends before that and does not show the final insertion.