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 techniques. The check lasted for 15 seconds and allowed the launch operations workforce to observe launch procedures within the lead-up to New Glenn’s deliberate November launch.
New Glenn is Blue Origin’s massive rocket reply to SpaceX in the case of capturing issues into house, however Jeff Bezos’ firm has been shifting slowly and has solely up to now performed vacationer flights to suborbital house utilizing its New Shepard rocket. New Glenn was presupposed to launch the smallsat ESCAPADE along with NASA this yr as its first mission, nevertheless it was just lately canceled.
Now, New Glenn’s first mission (NG-1) will likely 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.
