NASA announced on Tuesday that Blue Origin had successfully test fired its new BE-3 hydrogen/oxygen rocket engine at the company’s West Texas facility in Van Horn. The test, which took place on November 20, was a series of static firings to simulate the engine sequence of an actual suborbital flight from lift off to landing and is part of the development of Blue Origin’s manned Orbital Launch Vehicle for carrying passengers and cargo into low Earth orbit... Continue Reading Blue Origin test fires its new BE-3 hydrogen/oxygen rocket engine
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Tags: Blue Origin, Engine, Hydrogen, NASA, Rocket, Spacecraft, Test, Testing
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