Blue Origin carried out a hotfire check for its New Glenn rocket second stage on Monday (Sept. 23) as the corporate strikes towards the massive car’s debut flight.
The 15-second hotfire check was performed on Sept. 23 to validate interactions between the subsystems on the New Glenn second stage, its two BE-3U engines and the bottom management techniques.
Water deluge techniques preceded the lighting of the engines, which then fired to show tank pressurization management and thrust vector management techniques, in addition to BE-3U engine startup and shutdown sequences.
“Along with testing our flight {hardware}, this hotfire check was additionally a possibility for the launch operations crew to apply launch day procedures on console and confirm timing for a lot of crucial operations,” a Blue Origin assertion learn.
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New Glenn is concentrating on launch in November from Launch Complicated 36 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in response to Blue Origin.
Blue Origin is now into the ultimate stretch of preparations for the upcoming launch. New Glenn will carry the corporate’s new Blue Ring spacecraft platform on a Nationwide Safety Area Launch certification flight.
This primary New Glenn mission, or NG-1, was initially speculated to launch NASA’s twin ESCAPADE Mars probes. Nevertheless, a current evaluation of launch preparations led to a change of plan, and people two spacecraft will doubtless want to attend for the subsequent Mars launch window, which opens in late 2026.
New Glenn is greater than 320 toes (98 meters) tall. Its first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines, which burn liquefied pure gasoline and liquid oxygen. Blue Origin, which is run by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, additionally makes the New Shepard rocket-capsule combo, which takes folks and scientific experiments on transient journeys to suborbital area.
