Tag: BE-3
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard conducts first test flight
Blue Origin has conducted a test flight of its New Shepard suborbital system. Aimed at the space tourism market, the BE-3 engine-driven rocket lofted its capsule to Mach 3 and its planned test altitude of 307,000 feet. Attempts to recover the booster – which is designed to be reusable – were unsuccessful, although tweaks to the hydraulic…
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Blue Origin’s sub-orbital ‘New Shepard’ poised for test flights
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin’s BE-3 engine on a test stand at the company’s West Texas facility. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin, the historically secretive rocket company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, has completed development of a new hydrogen-fueled engine and plans to begin unmanned test flights of its…