Copernical Team
Blue Origin's new crane at Port Canaveral: Another piece to future launch puzzle
Blue Origin has staked out its space at Port Canaveral, right next to SpaceX, with a tower crane for eventual rocket booster recovery operations. Now the company just needs to launch one to put it to work.
The crane arrived at the port as cargo from Germany in October adding another puzzle piece to Jeff Bezos' plans to send up its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Launch Complex 36.
"It's now the highest point in our Port Canaveral as a whole," said Port Canaveral CEO Capt. John Murray at a port authority meeting last month. "It's a very, very tall crane and when you look across and you see our mobile harbor crane, it looks very small compared to this Blue Origin crane."
At 375 feet tall, it towers over the port's 302-foot-tall crane, both of which are installed at North Cargo Berth 6.
"That's our crane and a significant milestone as we make rapid progress in New Glenn's development," according to an emailed statement from Blue Origin. "The crane will be used to offload New Glenn's fully reusable first stage from our sea-based landing platform back onto shore in Port Canaveral.
Week in images: 06-10 November 2023
Week in images: 06-10 November 2023
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This image, from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 1 November 2023, captures the colours of autumn over the Japanese archipelago. Nourishing commercial growth in Earth observation
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