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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]
Maiden/demonstration flight of New Glenn, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft. First National Security Space Launch demonstration flight for New Glenn. [3] The 13 January launch was scrubbed due to problems with the rocket. The second stage made it to orbit, but the first stage was lost and failed to land. [4]
The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4) [5] is an oxygen-rich, [6] liquefied-methane-fueled, staged-combustion, rocket engine. It is produced by Blue Origin. BE-4 was developed with private and public funding. [7] The engine produces 2,400 kilonewtons (550,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level. [8] The engine was initially planned to be used exclusively on Blue ...
Bezos in late 2023 moved to speed things up at Blue Origin, prioritizing the development of New Glenn and its BE-4 engines. He named Limp, an Amazon veteran, as CEO, who employees say introduced a ...
Lunar lander: FireFly Aerospace's Blue Ghost is on its way to the moon with NASA payloads Blue Origin's New Glenn spacecraft takes off from Florida. The New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST ...
Engine Origin Designer Vehicle Status Use Propellant Power cycle Specific impulse (s) [a] Thrust (N) [a] Chamber pressure (bar) ... BE-4 USA: Blue Origin: New Glenn ...
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.