This is the engine that will power Blue Origin's next generation rocket, the New Glenn The current reusable rocket is a suborbital rocket, but the next generation, using the BE-4, will be an orbital reusable first stage.
To: Vince Ferrer; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...
3-D Printer Ping!
Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
2 posted on
01/22/2017 8:56:34 AM PST by
null and void
(Roses are red, soylent is green. Get to the shelter, it's 2017)
To: Vince Ferrer
Interesting post. Private sector rocket and space travel efforts means new ideas and new ways to do the job. I like the use of LNG as fuel. It is a lot cheaper than liquid hydrogen or those toxic chemicals used in older rockets. The Titan fuel was very complex and caustic.
3 posted on
01/22/2017 8:57:37 AM PST by
RicocheT
(Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
To: Vince Ferrer
Can we just have a working NASA back?
5 posted on
01/22/2017 11:47:07 AM PST by
OldNewYork
(Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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