Last week, Blue Origin launched its first interplanetary mission, two spacecraft bound for Mars. It also performed its first successful landing of its New Glenn rocket’s booster stage. On the wave of that success, the Jeff Bezos-owned private space company has announced it will go bigger. It plans to have a more powerful version of New Glenn. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

New Glenn has two stages: a reusable booster and an upper stage that burns up in the atmosphere once it has brought material into orbit. Its current configuration has seven liquid fuel rocket engines, called BE-4, and two BE-3U engines on its second stage. The new New Glenn will have nine BE-4s and four BE-3Us, and will be called New Glenn 9x4, wit

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