While New Glenn remains under development, Blue Origin's other rocket - New Shepard - has a nearly perfect streak so far across a dozen flights. The rocket also comes in several configurations to allow larger payloads to fly to space, such as strap-on boosters that will increase thrust. The company is targeting civil, commercial and military customers for this rocket, which will be reusable (to lower launch costs) and is billed as being able to launch in 95% of weather conditions (to reduce the possibility of flight delays), according to the Blue Origin website. Alternatively, the space could be used for multiple, smaller satellites (such as cubesats) that will be launched in the same orbit. In general, larger fairings allow for more complex satellites to be flown into space. "We have given customers a new opportunity to design satellites in a way they haven't before," Jones said. The 22-foot (7 meters) fairing is in fact so large that the company could fit its current, smaller rocket - New Shepard - inside of it, he added. "It is sized to fit almost 50% more than the next competitor," Jarrett Jones, the senior vice president of the New Glenn program, said in the video. Viewers can see the rocket coming together in the company's manufacturing facility at Cape Canaveral, as well as hear from some of the senior managers overseeing the program. Video: First full-scale Blue Origin New Glenn rocket fairing Another new video shows parts of the construction of New Glenn's payload fairing, which is the part of the rocket in which satellites and other payloads ride into space.
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