BE-4 and After
A Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine exploded during a 30 June 2023 test firing at the company’s West-Texas facility. The detonation destroyed the engine and substantially damaged test-stand infrastructure. Moreover, the setback’s ramifications are at once consequential to the extraterrestrial aspirations of Blue Origin and its customers. The eradicated BE-4 was to have concluded testing in July prior to being handed over to United Launch Alliance (ULA), which was to have plied the engine to the attempted second launch of its Vulcan Centaur rocket.
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