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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]
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 ...
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 ...
The company's BE-4 engine successfully completed a hot-fire test. The engine was fired at 50 percent power for three seconds, according to Ars Technica. Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine ...
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company's launch site in West Texas on March 31, 2022. The mission carried five paying passengers and Gary Lai, New Shepard's chief architect ...
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 ...
The Brief. Blue Origin is preparing for the possible launch of its New Glenn rocket next week, with a launch window from 1 a.m. to 4:45 a.m. Monday, and a backup on Tuesday.
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.