New Glenn still "go" for 2024 launch?

A quick view of what launch platforms that may be available to substitute for the SLS yields the New Glenn as a possibility in terms of its size and payload capabilities.

Starship can lift the mass, but how do you fit it into the cargo bay? It is rather large, even for Starship.

This doesn't mean that the New Glenn is suitable, though. It was just a quick view. There may be other constraints I don't know about. But it does have the girth. Falcon Heavy would be unwieldy and may not fit on it anyway in any event.

Blue Origin hasn't got much of a track record. For orbital it has zero launches. So they got that going for them.

Blue Origin says first New Glenn launch still scheduled for 2024 https://t.co/o1lN9PRNtg via @SpaceNews_Inc --- Waiting for the FAA license. Sounds like a familiar story.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) December 11, 2024