Enlarge / Jeff Bezos (right), the founder of Blue Origin and Amazon.com, and Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance, display a small-scale version of the BE-4 rocket engine during a press conference in 2014. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) As Blue Origin nears the critical point of delivering flight-ready BE-4 rocket engines to United Launch […]
Enlarge / A full-power test of the BE-4 rocket engine in April 2019 in West Texas. (credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin is unlikely to deliver two flight-ready versions of the BE-4 rocket engine to United Launch Alliance (ULA) before at least the second quarter of 2022, two sources say. This increases the possibility that the […]
Expand / / A BE-4 rocket engine extends evaluations in West Texas. (charge: Blue Origin) Blue Origin seems to have solved any improvement problems linked to the turbopumps in its own strong BE-4 rocket engine. United Launch Alliance chief executive Tory Bruno stated Friday that the issue has been”sorted out,” and the full scale, flight-configured […]