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

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket hit a major milestone this week, finishing its first second-stage scorching fireplace check that validates the interactions between the subsystems, its two BE-3U engines, and the bottom management programs. The check lasted for 15 seconds and allowed the launch operations crew to observe launch procedures within the lead-up to New Glenn’s deliberate November launch.

New Glenn is Blue Origin’s large rocket reply to SpaceX when it comes to taking pictures issues into house, however Jeff Bezos’ firm has been shifting slowly and has solely to this point performed vacationer flights to suborbital house utilizing its New Shepard rocket. New Glenn was speculated to launch the smallsat ESCAPADE together with NASA this yr as its first mission, however it was lately canceled.

Now, New Glenn’s first mission (NG-1) will probably 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.