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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]
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'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 ...
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 ...
The Blue Ring Pathfinder demonstrator (foreground), is seen with one half of the New Glenn rocket's payload fairing, or nose cone (background), on December 9, 2024.
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 tested; the test occurred on 18 October 2017. This was the first BE-4 engine to be hotfire tested; the test occurred on 18 October 2017.
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.