Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket hit a major milestone this week, finishing its first second-stage scorching fireplace take a look at that validates the interactions between the subsystems, its two BE-3U engines, and the bottom management programs. The take a look at lasted for 15 seconds and allowed the launch operations crew to follow launch procedures within the lead-up to New Glenn’s deliberate November launch.
New Glenn is Blue Origin’s large rocket reply to SpaceX in terms of taking pictures issues into area, however Jeff Bezos’ firm has been transferring slowly and has solely to this point carried out vacationer flights to suborbital area utilizing its New Shepard rocket. New Glenn was alleged to launch the smallsat ESCAPADE along with NASA this 12 months as its first mission, nevertheless it…
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