{"id":21588,"date":"2024-09-28T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T10:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-static-fires-its-first-piece-of-new-glen-flight-hardware\/"},"modified":"2024-09-28T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T10:04:02","slug":"blue-origin-static-fires-its-first-piece-of-new-glen-flight-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-static-fires-its-first-piece-of-new-glen-flight-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin static fires its first piece of New Glen flight hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/09\/GYMJxCUWwAAwaWp.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/09\/GYMJxCUWwAAwaWp.jpeg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/09\/GYMJxCUWwAAwaWp.jpeg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/09\/GYMJxCUWwAAwaWp.jpeg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/09\/GYMJxCUWwAAwaWp.jpeg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"41533\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2024\/09\/27\/blue-origin-static-fires-its-first-piece-of-new-glen-flight-hardware\/gymjxcuwwaawawp\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/09\/GYMJxCUWwAAwaWp.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"New Glenn GS2 hot fire\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: Blue Origin<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/09\/GYMJxCUWwAAwaWp.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: Blue Origin\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, Blue Origin made another step in the right direction in getting its New Glenn rocket to the pad for launch. On Thursday, the company fueled up its New Glenn second stage and conducted a 15-second risk reduction static fire.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-41531\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NG-1, or New Glenn-1, will be Blue Origin\u2019s first launch of its New Glenn rocket. Originally, it was intended to be NASA\u2019s ESCAPADE mission, a duo of cubesats built by Rocket Lab to travel out to Mars. NASA delayed the mission due to uncertainty in Blue Origin\u2019s ability to get New Glenn ready to launch by the end of its window in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NG-1 will now fly a tech demo of the company\u2019s Blue Ring project, an in-orbit transfer, hosting, or rideshare platform. It\u2019s kind of like a much larger version of Rocket Lab\u2018s kick stage\/Photon but in one. NG-1\u2019s new launch date is set for November, which, with Thursday\u2019s development, makes more sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The static fire came roughly a week later than originally planned, not uncommon for delays in first-launch flight testing. However, this most likely validates NASA\u2019s concerns about New Glenn not meeting the October launch window.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-41531',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue Origin has seemingly run into several setbacks, but the company is finally making serious progress, at least now from the outside, towards getting to launch. Must be an exciting time for those Blue fans out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GS2, the name of Glenn\u2019s upper stage, is powered by two BE-3U engines, a variation to the same engines powering New Shepard\u2018s suborbital flights. Consuming liquid oxygen and hydrogen, the company claims these have one of the highest thrust-to-weight ratios ever flown for a hydrolox engine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue Origin states the test was an overall success and allowed ground teams to practice launch day procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is now moving to finish up assembly and checkouts of the first New Glenn booster for its hot fire test. Powered by seven BE-4 methane engines, that is sure to be a sight when it\u2019s complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}