With a November debut launch target from Cape Canaveral still in play, Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin has installed the seven engines that will power the massive New Glenn rocket’s first-stage booster.

The company posted an image Thursday of the seven BE-4 engines in place at the base of the booster, which the company has playfully named “So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance,” a reference to a line spoken by Jim Carrey’s character in the 1994 film “Dumb and Dumber.”

“We have a cool history naming key Blue hardware that dates back to New Shepard,” CEO Dave Limp posted last month on social media. “No one has landed a reusable booster on the first try. Yet, we’re going for it, and humbly submit having good confidence in landing it. But like I said a couple of weeks ago, if we don’t, we’ll learn and keep trying until we do.”

Great job by the engineering, operations and engine teams on the installation (here is another view.) The seven #BE4 engines in this image will deliver more than 3.8 million pounds of thrust for #NewGlenn. Three of the seven engines gimbal to provide the control authority for New… https://t.co/sLdKggbFJm pic.twitter.com/BuFFAy1YtX

— Dave Limp (@davill) October 24, 2024

Port Canaveral commissioner Jerry Allendar said in the port authority meeting Wednesday the launch was targeting Nov. 30 during discussion after the port approved a construction easement for Blue Origin to allow for the transport of its booster after its planned recovery and return to the port.

“We all look forward to seeing a successful launch,” added Port Authority Chairman Micah Lloyd.

Blue Origin has not announced a target launch date beyond November, though.

When it does launch, the 322-foot-tall rocket aims to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36 with the first-stage engines producing 3.8 million pounds of thrust.

The boosters are constructed at Blue Origin’s massive factory nearby on Merritt Island, while the LC-36 launch complex features a pad and facilities large-enough to process three New Glenn rockets at once.

Blue Origin took over the lease for LC-36 in 2015, investing about $1 billion in the pad site alone. It was previously used for government launches from 1962-2005 including lunar lander Surveyor 1 in 1967 and some of the Mariner probes.

New Glenn’s first mission was originally targeting an October launch carrying a pair of NASA Mars-bound satellites, but NASA opted to delay until at least spring, which prompted Blue Origin to move up a planned December followup launch to instead become the rocket’s debut.

It’s carrying as its primary payload Blue Origin’s Blue Ring technology, a delivery system that will be used to deploy future customers’ satellites. If successful, the launch will also act as the first of two required flights for New Glenn to achieve certification to fly lucrative national security missions for the U.S. Space Force.

Just like SpaceX does with its Falcon 9 boosters, the New Glenn booster will attempt a recovery landing in the Atlantic on the company’s recovery vessel named Jacklyn, which is the first name of Bezos’ mother.

Blue Origin teams went through a simulated booster recovery practice run at Port Canaveral within the past month as well.

The first-stage boosters are designed to fly up to 25 times.

We successfully completed New Glenn’s second stage hotfire today, a critical milestone on our road to first flight (video forthcoming): https://t.co/fT0t9779UA pic.twitter.com/ItoJnaXvpm

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) September 23, 2024

The second stage had a successful hot fire of its two BE-3U engines in September opening the door for the fully integrated rocket to make its way to the launch pad later this month.

Blue Origin builds its own engines, and supplies BE-4 engines to fellow rocket maker United Launch Alliance, with two of the BE-4s used on ULA’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket.

Bezos’ company has to date only flown its smaller New Shepard rocket from a West Texas launch site. Those are only suborbital flights, but feature reentry landings that save the rocket booster for reuse. New Shepard’s booster engines are similar to those in New Glenn’s second stage.

New Glenn rockets are more than twice as powerful than Falcon 9. The first stage measures 188 feet tall compared to Falcon 9’s first stage at 135 feet. It has a bigger fairing for payloads compared to Falcon and Vulcan rockets coming in at nearly 23 feet (7 meters) in diameter compared to its competitors’ 17- to 18-foot diameters.

It’s still less powerful than SpaceX Falcon Heavy, though, which has 5.1 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. Vulcan’s thrust depends on the number of solid rocket boosters it uses, but can hit up to 3.3. million pounds.

New Glenn this past June was approved by the Space Force to compete in the new National Security Space Launch Phase 3 task orders alongside ULA and SpaceX, but cannot win any bids without its rocket having completed its certification before the planned launch date for those task orders.

The first two task awards for the new NSSL contract, part of a five-year plan of Department of Defense mission awards, were announced last week. They both went to SpaceX, but more are expected before the end of the year.

Blue Origin, though, already has a large manifest of commercial and civil customers ready to fly if the first mission goes well.

That includes several flights for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation, a competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation that has booked dozens of launches across multiple launch providers in the next few years.

The delayed NASA mission called ESCAPADE could fly in spring 2025.

And NASA is also relying on Blue Origin and New Glenn for one of the Artemis program’s two lunar human landing systems, Blue Moon.