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Blue Origin: New Shepard: Active 1st LH 2 / LOX: Combustion tap-off: 490,000 [2] BE-3U USA: Blue Origin: New Glenn: Active 2nd LH 2 / LOX: Expander, open: 445 [3] 765,000 [3] BE-4 USA: Blue Origin: New Glenn, Vulcan: Active [4] 1st CH 4 / LOX: Staged, oxidizer-rich: 340 [3] 2,400,000 [5] [6] 138 [3] BE-7 USA: Blue Origin: Blue Moon: Development ...
Blue Origin's big day. In the wee morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 16, Blue Origin launched its first New Glenn orbital-class rocket to space. The 322-foot rocket flew straight and true, reaching ...
The first hotfire-tested Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine, serial number 103, at the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 2018, showing the liquid methane inlet side of the engine. New Glenn is a 7 m (23 ft) diameter two-stage orbital launch vehicle with a reusable first stage [15] and an expendable second stage. [36]
Thirty stories tall with a reusable first stage, New Glenn launched at 2:03 a.m. ET (0703 GMT) from Blue Origin's launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, its seven BE-4 engines ...
Vulcan is a successor to the Atlas V, and BE-4 would replace the Russian-made RD-180 engine. [15] Blue Origin said that the "BE-4 would be 'ready for flight' by 2017". [7] Blue Origin indicated that they intend to make the engine available to companies beyond ULA. [16] By April 2015, two parallel development programs were under way.
The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket climbs away from pad 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop 3.85 million pounds of thrust from its seven methane-burning BE-4 first stage engines.
The BE-3 (Blue Engine 3) is a liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket engine developed by Blue Origin. The engine began development in the early 2010s and completed acceptance testing in early 2015. The engine is being used on the New Shepard suborbital rocket, for which made its first test flight on 29 April 2015 and had its first crewed flight ...