Jeff Bezos He has reason to be happy, as he has shown through his own Twitter account, after a long time of design and construction and testing, Blue Origin he has been working on his engine BE-4 since 2011, finally your new large-scale engine is ready.
As a reminder, tell you that this engine is crucial to the company's plans since the BE-4 will be in charge of giving life to the company's new rocket, the New glenn, the same on which they have promised will be reusable and will have the capacity to travel around the Earth with heavy loads and even passengers inside.
Almost seven years later, Blue Origin finally has its long-awaited BE-4 engine developed and ready to go.
At the moment, the truth is that the new BE-4 engine has yet to pass last test in a safe environment Therefore, it is believed that this will take place in West Texas, in the same facilities where Blue Origin itself has already carried out tests on other occasions and in the same place where the New Shephard rocket was launched for the first time, which has given such good results to the company.
As a final detail, tell you that the manufacture of this engine is not only great news for Jeff Bezos's company, but it is also great for the United Launch Alliance Since, following the prohibition by the United States to use Russian engines in the launch of military satellites, they will also use the new Blue Origin engine in their new Vulcan rocket.