Blue Origin gets its New Glenn rocket on track with new test fire

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket hit a important milestone this week, completing its archetypal second-stage blistery occurrence trial that validates the interactions betwixt the subsystems, its 2 BE-3U engines, and the crushed power systems. The trial lasted for 15 seconds and allowed the motorboat operations squad to signifier motorboat procedures successful the lead-up to New Glenn’s planned November launch.

New Glenn is Blue Origin’s large rocket reply to SpaceX erstwhile it comes to shooting things into space, but Jeff Bezos’ institution has been moving slowly and has lone truthful acold conducted tourer flights to suborbital abstraction utilizing its New Shepard rocket. New Glenn was expected to motorboat the smallsat ESCAPADE successful conjunction with NASA this twelvemonth arsenic its archetypal mission, but it was recently canceled.

Now, New Glenn’s archetypal ngo (NG-1) volition beryllium to transportation the company’s caller Blue Ring orbital level into space. Blue Origin plans to motorboat that ngo from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this November.