Blue Origin nears testing of the BE-4 rocket
by noreply@blogger.com (brian wang) from NextBigFuture.com on (#2HEGK)
Blue Origin has its first BE-4 rocket engine fully assembled and ready for testing -- and they pushed two more out the door recently.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space start-up aims to have a new rocket engine ready for installation aboard United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket by 2019.
Blue Origin has signed its first customer for a commercial satellite launch. European satcom Eutelsat aims to become Blue Origin's inaugural customer five years from now, utilizing a Blue Origin New Glenn large rocket to launch one of its comm-sats into high geostationary orbit. Then, just a day later, Blue Origin announced its second customer, OneWeb -- soon to be merged into Intelsat.
The New Glenn will use seven BE-4 engines.
Each BE-4 will have 550,000 pounds of thrust.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space start-up aims to have a new rocket engine ready for installation aboard United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket by 2019.
Blue Origin has signed its first customer for a commercial satellite launch. European satcom Eutelsat aims to become Blue Origin's inaugural customer five years from now, utilizing a Blue Origin New Glenn large rocket to launch one of its comm-sats into high geostationary orbit. Then, just a day later, Blue Origin announced its second customer, OneWeb -- soon to be merged into Intelsat.
The New Glenn will use seven BE-4 engines.
Each BE-4 will have 550,000 pounds of thrust.
Read more