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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.
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
Thirty stories tall with a reusable first stage, New Glenn launched at 2:03 a.m. ET (0703 GMT) from Blue Origin's launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, its seven BE-4 engines ...
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 BE-3 follows the earliest rocket engine development efforts at Blue Origin in the 2000s. Blue Origin's first engine was a "simple, single-propellant engine" called the BE-1 (Blue Engine 1) which used peroxide propellant and generated only 8.9 kN (2,000 lbf) of thrust, and their second, the BE-2 (Blue Engine 2) which was a bipropellant ...