US private spaceflight company Blue Origin has this week unveiled new information about its new and larger rocketry plans.
Most concretely, the company showed-off images on Twitter for the first time of a completed BE-4 rocket engine. This new engine burns methane and oxygen (methalox) as the propellant, making it considerable more advanced than current rocket engines on the market. Providing 5500kN of thrust, the BE-4 engine was designed from the ground up for…
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