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A good day. First time we lit up all seven BE-4 engines on New Glenn. And the next time will be our launch. We also received our FAA license earlier today. A big thanks and congrats to Team Blue…Launch coming soon!
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A good day. First time we lit up all seven BE-4 engines on New Glenn. And the next time will be our launch. We also received our FAA license earlier today. A big thanks and congrats to Team Blue…Launch coming soon!
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Well, all we have left to do is mate our encapsulated payload…and then LAUNCH! Congrats to the many Blue folks on today's test. Big day for our seven #BE4 engines, simultaneously firing for the first time for 24 seconds. Get this – a single BE-4 turbopump can fit in the backseat of a car. When all seven pump fuel and oxygen from the BE-4's common shaft, they produce enough horsepower to propel two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers at full tilt. The launch pad is the harshest environment for a vehicle, experiencing intense shaking from full engine thrust across the entire spectrum. To mitigate this, our water tower, one of the tallest in the world at 353 feet, plays a crucial role—storing water that is piped into the flame deflector, the launch table, and across the launch pad deck, providing thermal protection, and dampening as much acoustic energy as possible during liftoff. Our water deluge system expels around 400,000 gal/min during launch, with a good portion quickly turning into steam.
A successful hotfire of our fully integrated New Glenn launch vehicle at LC-36! The seven-engine hotfire lasted 24 seconds and marked the first time we operated the entire flight vehicle as an integrated system. Read more: https://bit.ly/4iQaUF7
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Why is Blue Ring so important? There is a growing demand to quickly move and position equipment and infrastructure in multiple orbits. Blue Ring has advanced propulsion and communication capabilities for government and commercial customers to handle these maneuvers precisely and efficiently. This Blue Ring Pathfinder is equipped with storage and compute virtualization to demonstrate anomaly detection using machine learning. Its mission kit provides high-performance, radiation-tolerant compute and storage akin to today’s cloud-based offerings.
#NewGlenn's first mission will carry our Blue Ring Pathfinder and is now ready for launch vehicle integration. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3ZmStiu
#NewGlenn's first mission will carry our Blue Ring Pathfinder and is now ready for launch vehicle integration. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3ZmStiu
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Thankful for Team Blue 💙 #NewShepard #NS28
A remarkable journey to space and back. #NS28
"We got to weightlessness, I immediately turned upside down and looked at the planet and then there was so much blackness. There was so much space. I didn’t expect to see so much space, and I kept saying that’s our planet! That’s our planet! It was the same feeling I got when my kids were born, and I was like, ‘That's my baby! That’s my baby!’ I had that same feeling where I’m seeing it for the first time, and it was beautiful."— Emily Calandrelli, NS-28 Astronaut