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On 31 October 2022, Blue Origin announced that the first two BE-4 engines were being integrated on a Vulcan rocket. [ 36 ] On 11 May 2023, Bruno stated that BE-4 qualification testing had been completed "several weeks ago", i.e,, by the end of April 2023.
In September 2018, ULA announced that it had picked the BE-4 engine from Blue Origin and fueled by liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid methane (CH 4) to replace the RD-180 on a new first-stage booster. [33] The engine was already in its third year of development, and ULA said it expected the new stage and engine to start flying as soon as 2019. [34]
Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. is an American space technology company headquartered in Kent, Washington. The company operates the suborbital New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles, including United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur.
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' aerospace company, is building two engines for ULA's Vulcan rocket. ULA wanted to launch the rocket into space this year, but the engines have been delayed, Ars reported.
The engine was fired at 50 percent power for three seconds, according to Ars Technica. Blue Origin was a bit of a mystery to the public for quite awhile. After all, unlike competitor SpaceX, the ...
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 ...
Engine Origin Designer Vehicle Status Use Propellant Power cycle Specific impulse (s) [a] Thrust (N) [a] Chamber pressure (bar) ... Blue Origin: New Glenn, Vulcan ...
Four years overdue, delayed by problems at Blue Origin getting the engine ready, by its own development issues, and by COVID, ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket finally made its first launch in early 2024.