Blue Origin successfully tests the New Glenn heavy pitcher's BE-4 engine

Blue Origin, the company of Jeff Bezos, has successfully tested the BE-4 engine that will equip its heavy launcher New Glenn.

image source: @Youtube Blue Origin

 While SpaceX already carries out missions with its standard Falcon 9 launcher and prepares for the end of the year the first shot of its Falcon Heavy launcher, its competitor Blue Origin, company of Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon, continues the preparations for his own heavy launcher, christened New Glenn.

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The company has successfully completed ground-based ignition tests of the powerful BE-4 engine that will power the heavy launcher and was developed in-house with the participation of ULA (United Launch Alliance).

First hotfire of our BE-4 engine is a success #GradatimFerociter pic.twitter.com/xuotdzfDjF

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) 19 octobre 2017

The first stage of the New Glenn launcher shall be equipped with 7 BE-4 engines, and the second stage of a single BE-4 engine, for a rocket capable of low orbiting up to 45 tonnes of payload, or 13 tons in geostationary orbit.

The BE-4 engine could also become the preferred choice for the ULA's Vulcan next-generation rocket engine, in contrast to Aerojet Rocketdyne's competing AR1 engine. 


Source : Space News


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