Blue Origin Conducts Hot Fire Test on New Glenn’s Upper Stage Written 26 September 2024
New Glenn’s upper stage hotfire test, 23 September. | Credit: Blue Origin; X
Aviation Week reports, “Blue Origin on Sept. 23 conducted a 15-sec. hot fire of the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen-fueled upper stage for its first New Glenn rocket, in what the company called a critical milestone on the road to flight. The static test fire at Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral SFS marked Blue Origin’s first fueling of a New Glenn rocket stage with flight propellants, and the first engine burn of an integrated flight stage.”
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