Check when to test the super-fat engine for the Vulcan missile. Blue Origin and ULA are testing the BE-4 engine.

Blue Origin of Jeff Bezos and space company United Launch Alliance has tested the powerful BE-4 rocket engine (Blue Engine 4), and here you can check out what it looks like.

The BE-4 aims to send a futuristic ULA Vulcan rocket into space, and will also power Blue Origin’s giant New Glenn rocket when it is ready to lift off from Earth.

Blue Origin has been developing BE-4 since 2011, and it was initially thought that this would be ready to send rockets into space as early as 2017. That didn’t happen but soon it was finally time for the engine to actually show what it was for. In December, ULA plans to send Vulcan on its first flight into space.

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BE-4The Blue Engine 4, or BE-4, is a liquefied, oxygen-rich, phased-burning natural gas rocket engine under development by Blue Origin. BE-4 is being developed with funding from both the public and private sectors. The engine is designed to produce 2.4 megatons (540,000 lb) of thrust at sea level.

Blue Origin tested its new rocket engine

For use in New Glenn and Vulcan missiles

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced via Twitter that his aerospace company Blue Origin has successfully tested its new BE-4 rocket engine. Blue Origin has been developing BE-4 for five years, and the idea is that several of these engines will ensure that the upcoming Blue Origin New Glenn rocket as well as the United Launch Alliance’s upcoming Vulcan rocket will be able to reach space. In the case of New Glenn, it will be seven BE-4 engines that have a total lift force of just over 17 tons. The first New Glenn rocket is scheduled to leave Earth in 2020 and will initially be used to launch satellites. The United Launch Alliance aims to get the first Vulcan rocket into space in 2019. Below you can check out yesterday’s test of the BE-4 engine.

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Blue Origin will build the giant rocket

New Glenn will be the next rocket for the founder of Amazon

Space company Blue Origin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has unveiled a new, reusable rocket that aims to compete with SpaceX and others to transport materials and, eventually, people into space. The rocket was named New Glenn, in honor of astronaut John Glenn who was the first American to orbit Earth in space. It will be made in two different models as shown here in the image above. The largest version of the New Glenn has a height of 95 meters, which puts it in the next height of the legendary American Saturn 5 missile with a height of 110 meters. Blue Origin is betting that the New Glenn project will be completed sometime by the end of this decade.

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The United Launch Alliance rocket will be called Vulcan

But rival Vulcan doesn’t like it.

The space company United Launch Alliance (ULA) revealed yesterday that the winning name for its next rocket that will send the Orion space capsule into space will be called Vulcan. However, this was something that rival space company Vulcan did not take kindly, and so they now want to force ULA to change the name of its launch vehicle. Vulcan Inc, which is behind Microsoft founder Paul Allen, says in a statement: “Vulcan is a trademark of Vulcan Inc. We have notified ULA of our trademark rights. Paul Allen and Vulcan were early pioneers in space exploration with the launch of SpaceShipOne more than a decade ago. We were flattered that the ULAx27 paid homage to our legacy by naming their new x27Vulcanx27 missile “Vulcan, or whatever the missile will eventually be called, it will be the first ULA-made missile as used previously from the older Atlas V and Delta IV missiles,

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Check out Blue Origin’s new rocket engine

The future will sit New Glenn missiles

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos posted some photos on Twitter showing the BE-4 engine that will be installed in a future space company Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. Seven BE-4s are supposed to be installed on the New Glenn, a missile that is currently only on the drawing board. Like the current New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, the first stage of New Glenn will be able to land on Earth and be reused. New Glenn, unlike the New Shepherd, will be strong enough to be able to transport material to be placed in Earth’s orbit. In the clip below released from Blue Origin today, you can watch an animated sequence of what we hope to look like when New Glenn takes off and lands a pre-stage. The video was released by Blue Origin announcing that its first customer to use New Glenn will be the French TV operator Eutelsat, which plans to put a satellite into orbit with a New Glenn rocket in 2021 or 2022. Below you can watch a video of a size comparison of two New Glenn rockets Glenn, one with two stages and one with three stages, compared to some of the other rockets out there (Antares, Soyuz, Ariane 5, Atlas V, Falcon 9, Delta IV Heavy), was (or will be) Saturn V (Vulcan and Falcon Heavy).

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