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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. The New Glenn is a 7 m (23 ft) diameter two-stage orbital launch vehicle with a reusable first stage [14] and an expendable second stage. [35]
New Glenn (future) Space Launch Complex 9 ( SLC-9 ) is a planned launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California , United States . Currently a greenfield, it is leased to Blue Origin as part of their plans to have a Western Range site for their New Glenn launch vehicle, joining Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral . [ 1 ]
Blue Engine 2, or BE-2, was a pump-fed bipropellant engine burning kerosene and peroxide which produced 140 kN (31,000 lbf) of thrust. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] Five BE-2 engines powered the company's PM-2 development vehicle on two test flights in 2011.
New Glenn’s first flight. Blue Origin formally announced the development of New Glenn — which aims to outpower SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and haul spacecraft up to 45 metric tons (99,200 ...
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just became more tangible. The company has officially started construction on a factory in Huntsville, Alabama that will produce the BE-4 engines powering both New ...
Yesterday Blue Origin showed off the BE-4 engine for its "New Glenn" rocket, and today CEO Jeff Bezos revealed its launch customer and an animation showing how it'll fly. Its new ship is capable ...
Testing and support took place at the company's orbital launch facility at Exploration Park in Florida, where Blue Origin invested more than US$200 million in facilities and improvements. [29] Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine powerhead and combustion chamber, April 2018—methane inlet side view. This was the first BE-4 engine to be hotfire ...
Blue Origin started working on BE-4 in 2011, and though it was originally designed for use specifically on Blue Origin's own New Glenn rocket, which is its first orbital launch vehicle, in 2014 ...