{"id":63936,"date":"2018-09-28T18:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T10:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origins-booster-engine-chosen-for-ulas-vulcan-centaur\/"},"modified":"2018-09-28T18:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T10:58:03","slug":"blue-origins-booster-engine-chosen-for-ulas-vulcan-centaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origins-booster-engine-chosen-for-ulas-vulcan-centaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin\u2019s Booster Engine Chosen for ULA\u2019s Vulcan Centaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong>\u2018s (ULA) selected&nbsp;<strong>Blue Origin<\/strong>\u2018s BE-4 engine for Vulcan Centaur\u2019s booster stage. The Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)-fueled booster will be powered by a pair of BE-4 engines, each producing 550,000 pounds of sea level thrust. As previously announced, ULA has selected <strong>Aerojet Rocketdyne<\/strong>\u2018s RL10 engine for the Centaur upper stage, <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> solid rocket boosters, <strong>L\u20113 Avionics Systems<\/strong> avionics, and <strong>RUAG<\/strong>\u2018s payload fairings and composite structures for the new Vulcan Centaur rocket system.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan Centaur, ULA\u2019s next-generation rocket,&nbsp;is making strong progress in development and is on track for its initial flight in mid-2020. The Vulcan Centaur rocket design leverages that of the Delta IV and Atlas V launch vehicles, while introducing additional technologies and features.<\/p>\n<p>The new rocket design is nearing completion, and the booster preliminary design and critical design reviews have been completed. Vulcan Centaur will have a maximum liftoff thrust of 3.8 million pounds and carry 56,000 pounds to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), 33,000 pounds to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) and 16,000 pounds to Geostationary Orbit (GEO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Launch Alliance\u2018s (ULA) selected&nbsp;Blue Origin\u2018s BE-4 engine for Vulcan Centaur\u2019s booster stage. The Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)-fueled booster will be powered by a pair of BE-4 engines, each producing 550,000 pounds of sea level thrust. As previously announced, ULA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne\u2018s RL10 engine for the Centaur upper stage, Northrop Grumman solid rocket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57695,"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-63936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63936"}],"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=63936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}