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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 .
Astra Rocket 2 Sounding rocket 2 Suborbital Retired (0/1) 2018 [36] Astra Rocket 3 Light rocket 2 LEO Retired (2/5) 2020 [37] [38] Astra Rocket 4 Light rocket 2 LEO Development 2023 (planned) [39] [40] SALVO Light rocket 2 LEO Cancelled — [41] [42] [43] Bellatrix Aerospace: Chetak Light rocket 2 LEO Development 2023 (planned) Blue Origin: New ...
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.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is building two rocket engines for ULA's Vulcan rocket. With a planned rocket launch delayed to 2022, sources expressed concerns to Ars Technica. See more stories on ...
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 ...
In June 2016, Blue Origin president Rob Meyerson announced that they would build a new 600,000sqft facility in Huntsville, Alabama called “Blue Engine” to manufacture the large BE-4 cryogenic rocket engine and the BE-3 engine.These engines will be tested at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center on the Test Stand 4670. [22]
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 ...
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]