T+316: New Glenn’s Second Launch, First Landing, and Upgrade Roadmap

Blue Origin is fresh off an incredible few weeks—a successful second launch and first landing of New Glenn, followed by an exciting unveil of upgrades to the vehicle, including an enormous new version, New Glenn 9x4. This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 32 executive producers—Lee, Natasha Tsakos, Fred, Will and Lars from Agile, Ryan, Stealth Julian, Pat, Heiko, Kris, Jan, Better Every Day Studios, Theo and Violet, Matt, Josh from Impulse, Russell, Joel, Warren, Joonas, Joakim, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Donald, David, Frank, Steve, The Astrogators at SEE, and four anonymous—and hundreds of supporters . Topics Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket came back home after taking aim at Mars - Ars Technica Jeff Bezos on X : “Good overview of the landing. We nominally target a few hundred feet away from Jacklyn to avoid a severe impact if engines fail to start or start slowly. We’ll incrementally reduce that conservatism over time. We are all excited and grateful for yesterday…” New Glenn Update | Blue Origin Booster 18 suffers anomaly during proof testing - NASASpaceFlight.com Senate Commerce Committee schedules hearing on Isaacman renomination - SpaceNews Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket - Ars Technica The Show Like the show? Support the show on Patreon or Substack ! Email your thoughts, comments, and questions to anthony@mainenginecutoff.com Follow @WeHaveMECO Follow @meco@spacey.space on Mastodon Listen to MECO Headlines Listen to Off-Nominal Join the Off-Nominal Discord

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This episode was published on Nov 26, 2025.

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