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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 .
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 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.
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 ...
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 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.
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]
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 ...