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Blue Origin: New Shepard: Active 1st LH 2 / LOX: Combustion tap-off: 490,000 [2] BE-3U USA: Blue Origin: New Glenn: Active 2nd LH 2 / LOX: Expander, open: 445 [3] 765,000 [3] BE-4 USA: Blue Origin: New Glenn, Vulcan: Active [4] 1st CH 4 / LOX: Staged, oxidizer-rich: 340 [3] 2,400,000 [5] [6] 138 [3] BE-7 USA: Blue Origin: Blue Moon: Development ...
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'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 ...
Vulcan is a successor to the Atlas V, and BE-4 would replace the Russian-made RD-180 engine. [15] Blue Origin said that the "BE-4 would be 'ready for flight' by 2017". [7] Blue Origin indicated that they intend to make the engine available to companies beyond ULA. [16] By April 2015, two parallel development programs were under way.
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 ...
At 2:03 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Blue Origin's 32-story-tall New Glenn rocket fired its seven engines and climbed atop a cloud of fire and steam for the first time, roaring into the skies ...
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.
The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.