Blue Origin will get its New Glenn rocket on monitor with new check hearth

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket hit a major milestone this week, finishing its first second-stage scorching hearth check that validates the interactions between the subsystems, its two BE-3U engines, and the bottom management methods. The check 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 huge rocket reply to SpaceX when it comes to taking pictures issues into house, however Jeff Bezos’ firm has been shifting slowly and has solely up to now carried out vacationer flights to suborbital house utilizing its New Shepard rocket. New Glenn was presupposed to launch the smallsat ESCAPADE along with NASA this 12 months as its first mission, nevertheless it was not too long ago canceled.

Now New Glenn’s first mission (NG-1) might be to hold the corporate’s new Blue Ring orbital platform into house. Blue Origin plans to launch that mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida this November.