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The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4) [5] is an oxygen-rich [6] liquefied-methane-fueled staged-combustion rocket engine produced by Blue Origin. The BE-4 was developed with private and public funding. [7] The engine has been designed to produce 2.4 meganewtons (550,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level. [8]
The BE-3 (Blue Engine 3) is a liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket engine developed by Blue Origin. The engine began development in the early 2010s and completed acceptance testing in early 2015. The engine is being used on the New Shepard suborbital rocket, for which made its first test flight on 29 April 2015 and had its first crewed flight ...
The Blue Engine 7 is a liquid hydrogen/oxygen dual expander cycle engine for use with the Blue Moon family of lunar landers. The company utilizes additive manufacturing in the development process and it is meant to generate 10,000 lbf (4.5 tf) of thrust, serving as both the ascent and descent engines for Blue Moon.
Blue Engine 2, or BE-2, was a pump-fed bipropellant engine burning kerosene and peroxide which produced 140 kN (31,000 lbf) of thrust. [ 135 ] [ 136 ] Five BE-2 engines powered the company's PM-2 development vehicle on two test flights in 2011.
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The company is headquartered on 11 hectares (26 acres) of industrial land in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where its research and development is located.The facility was 24,000 m 2 (260,000 sq ft) in size in early 2015, [3] growing to 28,000 m 2 (300,000 sq ft) by March 2016 with Blue Origin leasing additional space in adjacent office buildings.
Bowe will travel with Blue Origin in 2024 on the New Shepard launch vehicle making her the first black woman to travel with Blue Origin. [18] Bowe is a member of the National Society of Black Engineers and a certified Program Management Professional by PMI. She is also a certified SSI scuba diver and a mountain climber. [2]
BE-4 or Blue Engine 4 is a rocket engine under development by Blue Origin. Be-4 or Be4 may also refer to: Beriev Be-4, a Soviet reconnaissance flying boat; Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.4, a pre-World War I British biplane; Comandante Bauru (D-18, U-28, Be-4), a Brazilian destroyer escort warship previously known as USS McAnn (DE-179)